#180 Filer Idaho near twin falls at fairgrounds 3 nights

We were looking for a place 2 hours down the road and so we saw a fairground near Twin Falls in a town called Filer. We settled in and the RV sites were in rows and a little close together when at capacity. There were only a few people there so we had plenty of privacy.

It was way out in the country and they seemed to be a horse boarding place all year. The next morning I watched riders and horses working and practicing jumps. I went over and enjoyed watching them do their stuff.

I had set up an amazon delivery there also. It was called a slim port adapter for the LG phone it was supposed to transmit what I was looking at on the phone the big TV.

Whenever we read things about a period that has passed we sometimes realize it sounds kind of odd now.

During this period we had limited ways in which to watch internet shows. I can remember people saying that they had means of using an Xbox to receive the internet and it was then connected to a TV.

I also had heard of devices called Comcast but they require a constant internet connection which we had little and certainly wouldn't help you with a download.

What we had been doing since we started our trip in June was to just watch Netflix or Amazon or something like that on the monitor of our laptop.

I had looked on the Internet for ways to tether the smartphone to a big TV.

There are two stories here and one is that we wanted to get a more modern phone. The other is around the time that we were in Washington state Savannah had spoken to India about how she did not want to work for the national parks and that we could stay on the road but she was ready to go back to Wilmington.

I was disappointed to hear this but once they're 18 you got to kind of let him go so in the back of my mind I knew that we needed to improve her phone abilities for when she got back to Wilmington.

At present we were sharing a phone for internet purposes and Savannah just had an old dumbphone that she could use as a Wi-Fi-only device. If Savannah is going to go off on her own I knew she would need a new phone as she starts her new life. Twin falls were not only 2hours away but they had a T-Mobile store.

I went to the amazon locker to pick up the slim port adapter I had bought to screen share from the phone to the big TV. I tried to make it work but had no luck. I called the company and they said it was a compatibility problem.

We checked out of the fairgrounds and thought we would park in the T mobile mall type parking lot for a while buying a phone then we would get on the road.

We went into T-mobile to get Savannah set up with a phone and talk about our needs.

I showed them my slim port adapter and they said even if my phone was compatible there are better casting devices and I should send that one back. We set Savannah up with a new phone and her separate line with unlimited data. Even though she was adult enough to leave home. She was teen enough to love having a new phone.

I went to buy the gadget they suggested at Best Buy to transmit shows like Bluetooth. It looked like a flash drive that plugs into the HDMI in the back of the TV. It's designed to mirror whatever you see on the smartphone and cast it to the big TV. It sounds ho-hum now but at that time it was amazing to me. When I got back to the RV it wouldn’t work. I went back to best buy and talked to the geek squad and they kept saying it should work. Somehow either I, the geeks, or Tmobile figured out my present LG phone doesn’t have screen share capabilities.

Soon Tmobile is saying you are due for a free upgrade.

With the T Mobile people, nothing like that is ever free but they make it sound decently reasonable. It looks like I need to get a new phone if I want to do this. I took the new phone back to the RV which has been in the mall parking lot all day now, and the device worked great.

By the time we got done with T Mobile working, I didn't feel like driving for 2 hours. We got a bite to eat and I went back to Twin Falls fairgrounds. Going back it was dark now and when I got to the right turn off the main road I somehow went straight when I should've gone left. I realized I needed to turn around but now I’m on a one-lane dirt road and it’s a cornfield that seemed to go on for days. I didn’t mind as I would just turn around as soon as I got to one of those tractor cut-throughs that have in their fields. I had to go several miles before one popped up. I felt a little dumb about that. We got back to our site but the staff was long gone and being a weekend, they didn’t come in the next morning. I was fine paying for a third night but nobody seemed to be around or notice we were there. I called and left a message and they never followed up so that third night was free. This would wrap our Twin Falls adventure.

Twin Falls Fairgrounds

215 Fair Ave Filer, Idaho 83328 Phone: (208) 326-4396