Cold Spot

We’re at a soccer tournament this weekend in Santa Cruz and all the hotels are booked. So half the team is staying in cabins at the KOA campground. I was hoping to find a wifi point somewhere nearby, so imagine my delight when the office/store at the campground advertised free Wifi. I’d already tried looking for a connection in my cabin (or Kabin, as the KOA folks call them) with no luck. So I asked one of the three elderly ladies at the front desk where the wifi point was, expecting to be told it was in the dining hall, or the game room, or something.

When she told me that it was all over the campground and should work at any campsite, I mentioned that I hadn’t been able to get a signal from my cabin. “Oh,” she said. “It’s probably just because it’s so slow today. The internet was real slow when I was at home this morning.” Smiling, I told her that may be true, but I wasn’t even able to find a signal from an access point, so apparently the wifi wasn’t everywhere in the campground. “Well, they’re hot spots, and sometimes they cool down. So just move around a little until you find one that’s still warm.”