Here we are sitting in a Walmart parking lot, out on the edge, near the road. Cheap and pretty handy since I bought some strawberries and some bananas in the store after I had asked permission to stay here.
We pass lots of other RV’s on the road going places. RV’s have such interesting names. We see ones named Razor, Cosmic, Wolf, Ultrasport - pretty edgy names. Ours is called a Simba, pretty tame. Gary, who imagines himself as ‘dangerous’ is happy that it’s called Simba’ and not Tabby’.
We listen to our Sirius as we drive along, usually to Channel 26, Classic Rock. However, we like to try other stations and types of music. Today, getting bored, I decided we’d start at the top and go down the channels, listening to 2 songs on each channel. Of course, undefined is how long 2 songs had to be: if we heard only 2 lines of a song, did it count? Well, it’s our game, our rules. We started with ‘Bluegrass.’ Now, I can listen to Bluegrass for about 2 songs and that is all I needed here. Next was ‘Rocking Country Rebels’ followed by ‘New Country’, ’90’s Country’ and ‘Classic Country’ and here is where our liberty to apply the rules as we wanted came in. 2 lines of a country song was enough to qualify so we listened to 2 lines of one song and 2 lines of another. Well, the rules got much broader when Patsy Cline came on. Who can cut ‘I Fall to Pieces’? You can’t cut Patsy. I also enjoy some of Brooks and Dunn so ‘Boot Scoot Boogie’ got a full play.
Then, the rules broke down entirely when we got to the next section: Dance and Electronic. What kind of music is ‘Progressive House, Trance and Electro’ music? What in the world is Electro music? (Is that what you vacuum to?) And, if you know, you don’t need to tell me because I don’t need to know. It will forever remain as a number on my dial that I twirl by on my way to another number.
We also had a bit of trouble with Hip-Hop section. Those 2 lines of a song got mighty short when we hit this section. Then we hit the Rock section, more our type of music. We listened to complete songs in ‘Heavy Metal’ though it is not our favorite, and complete songs of ’80’s Hair Bands’. Though we hated to admit that we liked ‘Mellow Rock’ we did. But, it’s back to 26, Classic Rock.
We started with channel 61 and have worked our way down to 24 when we stopped in Kearney. We will finish tomorrow with the rest. Have we found some new stations that we liked and will listen to in the future? Sure. We’ve mostly found stations that we will twirl by.
We got Sirius in the Jeep when we got it and already had a portable Sirius player which we use in the RV, our home and the old Jeep. Now we have two and I wanted to renew them but put them on the same account for a discount. Currently we have the ‘Family’ channel package which leaves off Howard Stern and some of the comedy stations. I was displeased to learn that my choice of the ‘Family’ channels discount package cost more than a ‘regular’ package discount which includes Howard Stern. Being cheap, this means that I now have Howard Stern on my radio. Yechh.
We visit most of the Interstate Visitor Centers because there is a wealth of information about each state there. The Colorado one was marvelous and we picked up lots of ideas for a future trip. Here is the Nebraska one with several monuments to the Pony Express which passed through this area.
I like this plaque which lists names of actual Pony Express riders.
They had an example of the mochila which was thrown over the saddle. Here are the 4 pouches in which the letters were carried.
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