Two Time Zones in Campground

This is really funny.  Part of Kentucky is in the Central Time Zone and part in the Eastern Time Zone.  And guess where the dividing line is????  Right between campsites #34 and #35 here in Indian Ridge Campground!!!!  Isn’t that hilarious?

We were informed that amazon.com was in the Eastern Time Zone and to make sure our watches were all set that way so we wouldn’t be late for work; seems Three Springs Campground a little further south is in the Central Time Zone.

I didn’t think too much about it until Phil Schafer, the seasonal camper coordinator, said last year he was here in site #35 and he was in the Central Time Zone.

That sure is going to make things interesting, isn’t it?  Wouldn’t make much a difference if you used your watch to tell time, but I stopped wearing a watch earlier this year and have used my cell phone to check the time if I need to…..can’t do THAT any more :))

Remember, you are loved.

Problem Getting Denver Stations

When we went to being fulltime RVers in 2007 we thought we could get by with using our batwing to pick up local stations and cut out on the expense of satellite TV.  Well, that lasted about a month…Jim without a lot of TV stations to surf through?  Are you crazy?

We opened up another account with DISH while camphosting in South Fork, Colorado.  Of course, we had to declare ourselves as ‘nomads’ without a permanent stick and brick.  At that time we had several choices of cities to be declared as our “local stations”….New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles as I remember.  So naturally we chose Denver as it had always been our local station while living in Alamosa.

We have been able to “get” our Denver local stations and Denver news, etc., everywhere we have traveled from South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona…no trouble.  That is until we got here to Campbellsville.  When Jim set up the satellite dish here all of a sudden the Denver stations wouldn’t come in as a transponder but as a spot beam.

When we called DISH tech services we were told we never could have gotten Denver stations outside of their area.  Well, up to two days before we arrived in Campbellsville we were watching Denver news just fine in the Chicago area, thank you very much, and have received Denver stations everywhere for the last three years.  Then the tech said something really stupid, “you must be mistaken”….oh, yea, we only imagined we watched Denver Fox, Denver news and all the Bronco games for the last three years while traveling all across the country.

So we are watching the local Kentucky news stations and a couple of the major network stations with our batwing and then switch over to our satellite DISH for Foodnetwork, History channel, CNN, etc.  It’s a major drag, but I don’t want to change over to NY and LA if we can somehow get our local Denver stations back when we leave here.

Anybody got any ideas of what may have happened to all of a sudden get our local stations spot beamed to us instead of getting them through a transponder?

Remember, you are loved.