Headin' South

Greetings and Salutations, Friends and Family near and far,

Can you believe it?? I'm traveling, yet again!! For a dog my age, I'm really very well traveled, and I'm so good at it. Really, I'm not bragging, just telling it like it is. I let my humans know when I have to wee wee, or poop, and I chew on my bone while we're riding, or I sleep, or I let Mommy skritch my head and I'm never, ever a bother to anyone. In fact, most of the time, they don't even know I'm there........'cept for the odor now and again.....I'm like my daddy that way.......but we won't go there.

OK, so we'll start at the beginning. We left Vermont yesterday morning, very, very early because Daddy gets anxious on traveling day. It was 50 degrees and raining, but not too hard. Really just drizzling so not a problem. In fact, Daddy said it's easier to drive in weather like that 'cause it's not too sunny. So, off we went and by nine o'clock, we were in Albany and it was 57 degrees. See, we're headin' south so we expected it to get warmer. Nice. By the time we got to Pennsylvanis, it was 47 degrees. What happened??? It was still raining, but now it was getting cold. It isn't supposed to be like this......warmer, not colder. Not to worry....by Maryland, it was 61 and there was a short break in the rain. Yippee!! We stopped for the night in Williamsport because Daddy had been driving for nine hours and he was tired. We stayed at a Red Roof Inn and I got to stay for free!! Those people know how important we dogs are, that's for sure. Mommy and Daddy had supper at the Golden Corral which made Daddy very happy. He likes it there. I didn't sleep very well that night....don't really know why except I did NOT want to sleep on the carpet. I'm just not used to carpet and I didn't like the feel of it. Sooooo, I slept on the bed....next to my daddy, then next to my mommy, then in the middle of my daddy and my mommy........I just had a hard time getting comfortable. Anyhow, the night came to an abrupt end at 3AM when my daddy decided he had had enough and he got up to take a shower. Then mommy took her shower while daddy went out for coffee and we were on the road again at 5AM. Oh yes, still raining but 55 degrees so not so bad. Today, though, we saw lots of accidents. Daddy says the people down here just don't know how to drive and they go crazy fast no matter what the weather is like. That picture of the semi in the median slowed us up for awhile, but on the other side of the road??? A semi had jacknifed, tipped on its side, and vehicles were lined up for five miles down the interstate for who knows how long. And that happened early in the morning when everyone was going to work.

We stopped once in Virginia....the hills of Virginia....to get fuel. It was a Kangaroo Fuel Stop. Daddy went into the store and asked the clerk how far it was to Chattanooga and she said, "I don't have me no idear. Don't go nowhere. Alls I ever do is go home, come here to work, back home, come work. Don't you have no Kangaroos up there in VER mont?" Daddy said, "No, all we have are Moosies." "Never heerd of it. Say, what're the initials of VER mont, like on your license??" she replied. I won't tell you what Daddy said when he got back into the truck......it wasn't very.....polite.

Well, anyhow, on we went, in the rain, and the temperature began to go.....down, down, down...making Daddy very nervous because no one seemed to think it was important to slow down at all, the the rain was beginning to turn to.....yup, you guessed it. SNOW!! When we finally stopped, it was 35 degrees and snowing. Ohhhhhhh, Daddy was mad. Drive two days in the rain to get south and we run into SNOW!! Bah humbug!!

So, here we are in a Super 8 just north of Chattanooga, waiting for the snow to stop. Daddy had hoped to be in Florida tomorrow, but I don't think we'll make it. Oh well. Friday is soon enough. Auntie Em says it's going to be in the 80s this weekend......and NO snow!! Yippee aye.

Hope this finds you all well and happy. I miss and love you all.

Juni