DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 17 (Part One) “This life is what you make it.’” – Marilyn Monroe – We were running low on our home-cooked food, so last night, Mummy set about to prepare a batch that would last us through the remainder of our trip. It isn’t...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 16 (Part Two) We were on our way to the Bonneville Salt Flats, but we weren't really sure what that was. When you looked at a map and stuck a pin in the spot “where you were right now” and drew a line...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 16 (Part One) “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.’” – Ralph Waldo Emerson – We woke up early on the outskirts of Napa, California and found that a dear friend had made a wine tasting...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 15 (Part Two) As we struck off for Jamestown, California, GOLD FEVER hung in the air as Mummy jabbered on from the front seat about the kind of cottage she would get with all of the GOLD we would pan from the...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 15 (Part One) “All that glitters is not gold.’” – Proverb – Daddy had been wanting to see Yosemite National Park since he was a young boy and I’m happy to tell you that his dream was about to come true. We were headed...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 14 (Part Two) California was beautiful, that’s all there was to it. It wasn’t just MY opinion either, Mummy was smitten with the state too! She had been telling Daddy that she could be perfectly happy living in a tiny little cottage perched...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 14 (Part One) “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you, kid. Let’s go.’” – Maya Angelou We were leaving the west behind and finally entering California! WOW… Just WOW! We had really done it. We had driven from the...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 13 (Part Two) We said goodbye to Texas and fell asleep in our carseats as we headed toward New Mexico. Several hours later we woke up...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 13 (Part One) “It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.” – Mel Odom We had spent WEEKS carefully packing the trailer with everything that would possibly be needed on our 6-week cross-country road trip… plus a few hundred extra things...
DRESSING THE DOG Chapter 12 (Part Two) We had only been home from the “Yorky Jamboree” for a few weeks when it was time to leave on the biggest trip we had ever taken as a family. We were planning a HUGE trip out west in our...