Well I’m wait for a movie rental to download from iTunes, which is 1.65gb and estimates it will take a hour so I thought this would be a perfect time to just send out a little update.
I am officially living in my apartment. As many of you probably know I took a bit of a road trip, traveling down from Dawson Creek through Jasper National Park, Yoho National Park and into Southern BC. It was all very gorgeous and someday I plan on returning. I took over 700 photos while on the go but didn’t have the chance to upload any as my internet connection for the most part were restricted, which lead me to my next topic of conversation.
Internet is becoming much more accessible, now don’t get me wrong I am the first person to promote this but I was definitely taken back finding Internet in some of the places I did. I was camping my way around BC and by camping I don’t mean a 35-foot RV or Trailer. I mean good old tent camping and that is where I found the WiFi. In the campground, now granted some of the campgrounds were RV Parks and I can see why they might offer it there but in some places it was just bizarre. While on the stretch coming home the only campground that could be found was a tiny one on the outskirts of Clinton, BC which is north of Cache Creek which is west of Kamloops. The campground was privately owned by an older gentleman and his wife and by the looks of them I would have never guessed they even knew what the Internet was. So upon settling in for supper I started playing with my trusty iPhone and realized there was a WiFi network for the grounds and with it being locked I investigated by asking the man. Sure enough by paying $3 I got myself some semi decent working Internet for the evening. It just goes to show that the Internet is being more of a necessity just like the way cell phones did.
As I’m certain I will probably get quite bored between now and when school starts expect some more detailed posts from me. Tomorrow should be one with picture of the new apartment…. Again.
Now do you understand more fully why I went into shock when I moved to yellowknife and found only a couple places had wifi? It’s *weird* up here still! So off the grid! But that’s ok – I went fishing for my first time the other day, and that made up for the lack of wifi!
It really is odd that the fast pace Yellowknife is rather far behind. It is also amazing how the small town I’m currently living in (Dawson Creek), which is half the size of Yk, offers free WiFi in the downtown core.
Yellowknife definitely needs a boast. Thanks to Northwetel there now is WIFi at the airport available.
I think yellowknife would have more hotspots if the bandwidth was so expensive.