My father opted to move out into the boonies of Virginia while I attended college. He desired to get out of the city setting as the birds left the nest. When I visit him, its a nice break to catchup and it also provides me an opportunity to get off of the grid from today’s connected world thanks to the internet. You see, my father lives out in the sticks; his nearest neighbor is a few cornfields down the single lane country road that dots the numerous Virginian peninsulas in and around the Chesapeake Bay. The local utilities haven’t built out the infrastructure out of town for high-speed internet availability, so my father is dependent upon a hodge-podge of slow and expensive satellite internet providers that are more or less operating at 2G speeds when necessary with annoying data caps or cell-phone network mobile hotspots with data caps/throttling so I…
Adventures of my Curiosity
