{"id":43478,"date":"2026-01-30T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43478"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:21:07","slug":"day-26027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43478","title":{"rendered":"Day 26027!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after losing the Internet and receiving a tip that Starlink Mini was on sale at Home Depot for $199, we decided to order one last night, for pickup in Flagstaff this morning. \u00a0I had a nice drive up and back. \u00a0This is looking East on Mingus Avenue, just outside of Cottonwood. \u00a0Mingus was the original name for the Town of Wibaux, \/\\\/\\onTana!, supposedly named for two cowboys, Min and Gus. \u00a0Probably just a coincidence, but Clarkdale is named after one of the Montana Copper Kings, William Clark, who built and owned the company town.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t too much traffic heading up the big hill to Flagstaff. \u00a0The San Francisco Peaks are showing a little snow.<\/p>\n

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Once I finally located the Home Depot, I got the Starlink Mini antenna from this box. \u00a0It was a bit different than the parcel delivery system Walmart had during the recent pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Looking out over the Verde Valley on the way back. \u00a0Clarkdale, Cottonwood, Jerome, and Camp Verde are all down there, somewhere.<\/p>\n

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Then back to the trailer, a quick, simple setup and\u2026well, it really was a quick and simple setup: plug the power cable into the power adapter and plug it in. \u00a0Plug the other end into the Starlink antenna, and point it at the sky! \u00a0Then sign up online or in the Starlink app. \u00a0Despite a well meant plan, I didn\u2019t get photos pf the setup or ending. \u00a0Because after more than an hour on the phone with Starlink, apparently you can\u2019t use a Mini antenna for Residential Service. \u00a0<<sigh>><\/p>\n

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It went back to Home Depot the next day.<\/p>\n

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after losing the Internet and receiving a tip that Starlink Mini was on sale at Home Depot for $199, we decided to order one last night, for pickup in Flagstaff this morning. \u00a0I had a nice drive up and back. \u00a0This is looking East on Mingus Avenue, just outside of Cottonwood. \u00a0Mingus was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,33,70,3,5,69,62,59,61,71,34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic","category-humor","category-landscapes","category-life-aa-a-snowbird-in-2026","category-life-at-home","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2026","category-panorama","category-quarantine-2020","category-rv","category-subaru-forester","category-sunrises","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43488,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions\/43488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}