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Some of you know by now, we made it to Tacoma, WA for Thanksgiving at my sister's house where all the family were meeting for the Thanksgiving meal. Did we ever surprise some of them. There was nothing quite like seeing the sign "Welcome to Washington" only thing to

make it any better would have been to have sunshine in the background instead of rain clouds, but then again, it's fall/winter in the northwest.

It's really nice to be home and sleeping in our own beds. The last two nights have been heaven.

We will now begin the process of getting the trip all together and the story written to get the book published. I'm still off for another week so hope to get most of it done before heading back to the park.

Speaking of the park, it really has been an eye opener to see how other parks perform the duties of dealing with the public. After all, the public is why the parks are there. There's always something we can learn from each other, all we have to do is to ask and or watch.