Hello All!
This is my first attempt at blogging. A very smart person suggested that I keep in touch via personal blog to stay connected with everyone while we are out in California. So......here goes!
It was very difficult to leave Canandaigua after having lived there for over ten years. We really made it our home. The peope we have met and the beautiful countryside made every wind gust and snowflake worth experiencing.
We realized we (I) had accumulated a lot of stuff (junk) over time and packing was a nightmare, both before and after the movers came. Our Goldens Ingonish and Cabot weren't much help in the cleanup process. In fact, they added to the mess. Nevertheless, around 5pm Tuesday 6/23/09, we left Canandaigua in our motorhome on our eight-day trek across the US.
The first half of our trip was uneventful. We drove through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada on our way to California. The dogs were surprisingly well behaved for most of the trip until we got to Nevada. We would leave them in the motorhome each night while we went out for dinner. In Nevada, we ate and then gambled a bit at the local casino. We came back and Ingonish had eaten Kevin's laser pointer dangling from his utility bag. Oops! Poop patrol had begun. In the meantime, the next day we didn't realize that he was also eating numerous button covers that were on the upholstery in the dinette area of the motorhome. Needless to say, after two teaspoons of hydrogen peroxide were given, all fifteen button covers and the laser pointer were recovered. Thank God! We weren't looking forward to Ingonish having a third surgery!
The western half of the country proved to be the most beautiful, even from the highway. Wisconsin and South Dakota surprised me. The topography was very interesting and ever- changing the further west we went.
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