Trudy

Number of times you have to stop for animals in the road....

Absolutely no interest in the Billy the Kid museum. This trip is pretty much get in the truck in the morning and drive until we need gas or want to swap drivers or the dogs need a break, get back in, repeat.

Payback I had to move him since he is just way too heavy to sit on Ryan like that. taken shortly before getting to the hotel this afternoon

Short day just because after 6 days of long days, we all need a break. Flagstaff, AZ to Santa Rosa, NM today

Idaho - snow, no snow some Utah rocks some Arizona rocks T riding in T fashion end of the day - tuckered out dogs

Idaho Falls, ID to Flagstaff, AZ today

disabled snow plow Our line of vehicles waiting to go - some stuck where they are notice the snow plow on the north bound side of the road... going south lol Some FedEx truck/trailers causing issues... sucks to be this guy a bunch of people waiting down near the border to get on the north bound road when it opens (it wasn't opened yet when we went past going South) The line waiting to cross the border into Canada (the truck lane leaving Canada was just as long) - roads were great in MT by the time we got there somewhere in Montana

Didn't make it to Salt Lake City as we had hoped today due to that spring blizzard in Alberta. 90 mins to get about 40 miles. Then we sat, on the highway for ~4.5 hours. There were ~15 semis, plows, graders, private vehicles stuck somewhere on the road preventing the rest of us from passing. After we were on the road this morning, they closed it from a point behind us to a point in front of us, then extended it to the border - due to the mess that was out there of stuck plows and graders and other stuff. That's why we sat... they were digging out the stuck people. Once we hit the border, we made good time again, but no way we were making it to SLC in a reasonable time, so we are here in Idaho Falls, ID for the night.

We drove through Edmonton and then Calgary at rush hour last night - hit city traffic already.

~2500 miles of driving since 10 April. Point E is where we are tonight, 13 April.

I was driving for the herds of caribou, the herd of buffalo and the moose IN the road Weather can't be worse than it is tonight. We are on the edge of a blizzard - made for slow going for the last 90 miles.

2 themes today... Caribou and crazy dogs The caribou - not good for time or gas mileage when you have to keep stopping to let a caribou or two or three or a herd of 20 get out of the road Crazy dogs and their thoughts for the day (this was NOT staged lol) Yes - he rode like that for quite a while

Some friends hanging around while we departed Kodiak... Some last Kodiak eagle pics... Kodiak in the rear view mirror Pulling into Homer, AK this morning on the ferry The first moose I've seen in AK - they DO exist This one was on our way out of Homer

That was pretty much our entire trip up through Canada and we weren't expecting much different on the way back other than Edmonton.

Why add the KBr if the Pb was working fine? Ryan wasn't getting the control on Pb alone after a couple of years and we had to increase the dose so much he was having side effects from that, so we added KBr to help control his seizures instead of continuing to increase his Pb. He was drunk for a month. We've since been able to reduce him on everything, but will up him again for our trip out of here.

Ryan took a very long time to adjust to the KBr when we added it. Poor boy was always falling into something or just not steady and just not with it. Poor boy was drunk for a month!

So somebody doesn't like Dr Dodds. So what. Move on.

He gained some weight while eating just chicken and rice for a while? And his poops were good? And all that changed again when you went back to a food suggested by the old vet?? To me, that doesn't sound like a pancreatic issue, but a food issue. If he can do well on chicken and rice then he's absorbing what he needs - or at least absorbing something. Good luck with the new vet.

I've never had an issue with my dogs walking into a new house and 'claiming' it. They've been in plenty. Though Jet did pee on Liz's new rug once.... In a month we will be living in an empty house for a week before we hit the road south. Then living in an empty house there until the stuff arrives. They'll have a few toys, their beds, food, bowls, etc - and they'll be fine.

Where were you clicking donate? I've tried and no where does it ask me for an email address.

You won't have a messenger option until you are an active member - goes by post count.

THERE ISN'T ONE My yes was in response to "Is it gone forever?"

yes

Before I had a yard, yep, we walked in whatever it was doing. Now - if a week has gone by and it is still raining, we'll go out for a quick walk or a run somewhere or something.

I had to use the net at Panera last night at dinner and now I'm at Barnes and Noble until they close. The net in my room and lobby just is not working. I will be heading to a different hotel tomorrow as I sort of need access to do a bunch of stuff for the house while I'm here. So I can't do much until I have real net access and won't do much other than simple ticket stuff as I don't like to access that stuff while we are on the road with unsecured networks.