First is Molly!
The day we picked up Molly we were driving her back to our RV and she got car sick - not a good start for a dog that will travelling for months at a time! Lucky for all of us - she got used to the motion very quickly - thank goodness, and she is already a really good traveller. She lays in my lap and sleeps most of the time. Pretty good for a 4 month old puppy!
The day we picked up Molly we were driving her back to our RV and she got car sick - not a good start for a dog that will travelling for months at a time! Lucky for all of us - she got used to the motion very quickly - thank goodness, and she is already a really good traveller. She lays in my lap and sleeps most of the time. Pretty good for a 4 month old puppy!
Gary - BUS driver ( thank goodness he is quite happy doing ALL of the driving; I wouldn't even think about trying to drive such a big girl as Rose!) He's also chief of maintenance, there's always something that needs repairing - lots of moving parts... One of the regular jobs is connecting the sewer hose every time we stop at a campground. Nothing better to make us appreciate a permanent connection...
Here's Sharon - the travel planner working hard on the travel plans. Molly helps in the planning - she adds in lots of breaks for walks and treats.
Meet Rose - she's a VERY big girl! We named her Rose because with Rose you can't be in a hurry (she's too big to move quickly) so we hope she will help us to stop and smell the roses instead of running past them in a blur!
Last but certainly not least is Scooter. We bought the Smart Car because it is the only car that will fit in Rose but the bonus has been that she is so much fun to drive and gets great gas mileage too! Scooter helps make up for Rose's drinking problem. Rose just guzzles the fuel!
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At the campsite Scooter in Rose's garage
It was a rocky start to the trip to Niagara....
We were barely north of Atlanta on I75 when the passenger windshield wiper broke off of Rose in the middle of a thunderstorm and then the other wiper quit working. I was wondering if this was an omen of some sort. We stopped in Chattanooga to get the wipers fixed and they shipped the wrong part - delaying our trip for two days. We finally hit the road with no time to spare to meet our Irish friends in Niagara two days later. Our first night on the way to Niagara was in a Walmart parking lot in Cincinatti. We turned on the TV just in time to hear a news alert about a toronado and large hail warning for the area where we were staying. The wind and heavy rain lasted all night long but fortunately there was no toronado, too. By this point I am wondering what's next....
Fortunately, the rest of the trip to Niagara was uneventful - my heart couldn't take much more. We arrived just in time to get ready to have our Irish friends join us in our RV for a cookout and campfire. We had good ole American hotdogs and hamburgers and S'mores.
More bumps in the road.....
But the evening was not without yet another opportunity for the chief of maintenance.......When our friends came over for the cookout the first night in Niagara, our microwave/convection oven stopped working. How do we survive without a microwave and how do we get it fixed while we're on the road??? ( more about this in our next blog update)
Molly provided even more excitement on the trip. Asserting her right to act like a puppy - she chewed up the power cord to my laptop. It looked like it was unsalvagable but the chief of maintenance came to the rescue with electrical tape. It took almost a whole roll of tape but my cord is fixed and Molly is under constant surveillance! We also had an unexpected trip to a veterinarian in Niagara - Molly's stitches from her spaying operation the week before were becoming infected so we got the name of a vet in Niagara and off we went to get some antibiotics. For the next 10 days she had a "lampshade" on her head until she healed.Highlights of Niagara Falls....Seeing our dear friends Paul, Mary and Geoff from Ireland and the beauty of the Niagara Falls area.,,,
Next stop - the Adirondacks in upstate New York!
