I have also never heard of the Kong toy dispenser but I am going to look it up right now....as we have 2 dogs that stay at home during the day. I have experimented ALOT with filling the large Kongs with a mixture of stuff and freezing it overnite.....like apples and peanut butter or carrots and yogurt, oatmeal, rice, chicken....whatever....it keeps them busy for a while....sometimes my smaller dog will still have some that she is working on when i get home from work....and the Kongs go right in the dishwasher so it is easy clean up. We also take the pop-up/fold up kennels with us that are kind of like tents...they zip up....you an get them at walmart....these work out great as well....just for traveling in general....very compact.  The dogs seem to adjust to the "travel lifestyle" really quickly....its nice.

We have CellularSouth...which is a local company to the south but we have never had any trouble with service no matter where we go....countrywide....we have been from NC to WA to FL to south TX.....no problems. You can find them onlihne at cellularsouth.com. They have a 79.99 plan that is unlimited smart phone and you can add a line for 1/2 price. works great for us.

We use Verizon and have had good coverage everywhere but the far corner of Washington state.  When we were there we actually had to purchase a cell phone signal booster.  (about $250)  Very expensive but we simply could not do without phones for 3 months.  It's very rare to have cell phone problems these days.