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Put your car keys beside your bed at night.
Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This works well if any kind of emergency occurs and you need to get someone's attention.
Submitted by Don Teppola.

An alert from Don Teppola
It seems there are lots of stores that are closing due to the "recession" and the fact that people are not shopping. If you have any "gift cards" from
these stores, make sure you use them or you will lose them!!
Watch those store money cards and gift cards and
credit slips!!

New Cell Phone tips and tricks
Find a business, Highway delays due to weather, construction, accidents and turn off spam before it cost you money for text messaging.

Watch a motor home burn as the owner video tapes the inferno.

Three important questions to ask your doctor when they are making a diagnosis. Get the doctor   thinking about other possibilities.
1. "What else could it be?"
2. "Could two things be going on to explain my          symptoms?"
3. "Is there anything in my history, physical exams, laboratory findings, or other test that seem not to fit with your working diagnosis?"
Taken from AARP and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD

Do you know someone that you suspect is being financially exploited? There is a hot-line to adult protective services that are responsible for investigating suspected financial exploitation. (anonymously if you wish).
www.elderabusecenter.org 

Do you use your cell phone while you drive your vehicle?
You are leaving yourself wide open for a big fine
if you do this anywhere in Washington starting
in July 2008. Sources say the increase of
accidents and fatalities are what prompted the
new law.

 No more delays at Washington bridges paying tolls. Get a Transponder Sticker for your windshield. "Good To Go" Submitted by Judy A.

Thinking about buying prescription medication on the internet? Before you buy you should read this report from the FDA

Allergies, find out before you travel when and where the pollen count is high.

Need proof that you applied for your passport in case it doesn't come in time for your trip? You will need it to get back into the U.S.A. (Information supplied by Judy A.)

Want to purchase your yearly Tabs (stickers) for your WA license plates on line, instead of in line?
Go here.

Electric or Propane - What will your choice be? Do you have a choice in your RV? If so, you will want to know how to save money on the energy you use.

Latest and greatest Hot Spot finder from the traveling Cates

How to by-pass company and personal automated answering systems                           
Port Townsend Webcam 
for views of the Courthouse,
Ferry,SR #104, Tacoma narrows and Jefferson County Airport

Two other websites on Port Townsend   One and Two

More Websites

Web sites you need to know for traveling the Northwest

More traveling web sites (i.e. where to get a passport)

 Latest snow pictures from Dick and Diane at Evergreen COHO.

Spectacular views of Owens Valley taken by one of our roaming photographers Larry Koenig #330 prior to the snowfall.
Owens Valley
What the Owens Valley means to the outdoors type is access to thousands of miles of the most spectacular high mountain trails in the country.  Trails originate all along the length of the valley.  The BLM provides crude but economical dry campgrounds at several locations and the Paiute Palace Casino in Bishop provides a free dry camping. 

 While the system of trails is immense and includes the Pacific Crest Trail for endless days of backpacking, incredible places can be reached just by modest day hikes.  The photos were all taken on day hikes in  mid October when the fall colors were already history and still it is an incredibly beautiful area and the temperature in the valley and in the mountains was near perfect.  A previous trip at the end of September caught the fall colors but the valley was unbearably hot though it was still comfortable in the mountains.

Don’t pass through Bishop without visiting Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light Photography and the Erick Schat's Bakery.  Galen Rowell died in a private plane crash in 2002 but his work, some of the best scenic photographs I have ever seen, is still on display.  Words cannot describe the Erick Schat’s Bakery which has what seems like a limitless variety of bread.  Shepherds bread is the signature bread but skip it.  Instead try a Russian raisin and pecan, olive or cheese bread.  If you arrive early in the morning, samples of three feature breads are usually available. For more pictures by Larry and more information go to
Owens Valley, CA be sure to click on slideshow for full size photos.

Friends get together for Thanksgiving
Photos by Gene Holly

Time for Rachel to bury that Time Capsule.
more pictures by Dave weaver

First snow at COHO-----10/08/08

And so, another season changes.
   Joanne describes Autumn at the park with
      pictures of the start of the waterfall project.

    Favorite Clippings - send us yours

Ideas are very much like children,

   your own are wonderful.

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