News Junkie Withdrawal!

After packing up our satellite dish when we left Edmonton mid June we had no idea that we would not be assembling it again! During our two weeks of traveling we had no access to television programs and other than feeling that we were in another world we did not miss the endless rehashing and analyzing of the current events.

This is amazing as Ruth has been a news addict for most of her life. She switched back and forth through several channels every evening and watched documentaries, history programmes and daily analysis.....as if her job depended on it. She seemed to need to hear from Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper, H&C, Nancy Grace and Greta VanSustern every day. This was in addition to a wide range of local Canadian programmes.
June 30, when we arrived in the Alaskan Angler RV Park we discovered that we could not set up our dish because it could not be placed high enough as a temporary structure. Placing it on the ground would not allow it to receive from the satellite in the southern sky.

Mid July we cancelled the satellite service!!!


We watch 4 local channels using the antennae on the roof. Even the weather reporting is very localized with us only getting snippets of news from the LOWER 48 and nothing from Canada. The war between Lebanon and Israel had been in progress for 2 weeks before we realized the seriousness of this engagement and this was only because we moved to a new site where we could get Fox news on the RV park cable.



Friends of Israel.