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Keeping In Touch On The
Road My brother is a jock - a mountain climber and hiker, whitewater rafter and Triathalon competitor. In January, he was hiking through the Rockies in Colorado, miles from the nearest town...and telephone. Along with his backpack and survival gear, he had a TM-20 and his cell phone. When I checked my e-mail one morning, there was a message from him, telling me everything was fine and that evening he would be in a hotel near Denver. He had written and sent it while sitting on a hilltop out in the Colorado boondocks. Talk about keeping in touch! |
If you're computer literate, you know you can access the Internet and e-mail services with a computer and a modem connected to a phone line. So many people do that, that today there were over 400 million e-mails sent via the Internet. But what do you do when your roaming around the country in your car, on planes, in and out of hotels and sometime out in the boondocks. You can't run a phone cord from your home to wherever you are because (a) it takes too much wire and (b) somebody's liable to trip over it and sue you. If you're in a hotel you can use a laptop and the hotel phone but not everybody has a laptop and not everybody finds themselves in a hotel when away from home. So you need something a little more portable, convenient and versatile. With all of the cell phone technology out there, certainly there has to be an answer to keeping in touch with (pick one), your family, your friends, co-workers, the house sitter, your business associates, your broker, your landlord, your rv repairman, your doctor, the AAA, etc.
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Case History:
My brother is a jock - a mountain climber and hiker, whitewater rafter and
Triathalon competitor. In January, he was hiking through the Rockies in
Colorado, miles from the nearest town...and telephone. Along with his backpack
and survival gear, he had a TM-20 and his cell phone. When I checked my e-mail
one morning, there was a message from him, telling me everything was fine and
that evening he would be in a hotel near Denver. He had written and sent it
while sitting on a hilltop out in the Colorado boondocks. Talk about keeping in
touch!
Phil Philcox is a writer, author of over 1200 articles and 45 non-fiction books, including Computerized Bookkeeping and Tax Form Preparation, and How To Earn More Than $30,000 A Year With Your Home Computer. Many of his books are available thru Amazon.com or at local bookstores. You can contact him at http://philphilcoxboe.homestead.com/writers.html .
