I spent much of August on a 7,000 mile road trip that took me from Texas, to Colorado, to South Dakota, to Montana and Wyoming, back down through Utah to Nevada, then across Arizona and New Mexico back to Texas. The plan was for it to be a “working vacation”, but getting connected to the Internet proved to be much more challenging than anticipated.

In part one of “Lessons from the road” I talked about the unreliable Internet access offered by hotels. The reality I experienced is that the “free Wi-Fi” or “free hi-speed Internet” were often disappointing at best—assuming I could connect to the Internet at all.