Me and my shadow

Being a big brother comes with a lot of responsibility. Like.... not losing your little sister in the desert. Not taking her too close to the cliff edge when she follows me up a narrow crevasse. Don't let her wander off in the wash in search of donkey poop! Stuff like that!

I am teaching her how to "live life of leash", yesterday we took her for her first "Big Girl" hike of nearly 3 miles...she successfully manged to be the perfect annoying little sister the entire time!

Its a dogs life!

Throw the damn pig already!

Always having to deal with the "PUParazzi" got me like.....

Casual Wiener

Just chillin' with the pack on this rainy day....it's a dogs life

Reboot!

This wiener dog and his pack are back on the road! A lot has happened since my last post so here is my Wieners Digest Version of the past 8 months, at last check-in we were in Florida...

Meandered up the east coast, with memorable stops in Georgia, Washington DC and Maine...I love lobster!

I became an international wiener dog and crossed the Canadian border into Quebec and exited through Niagra Falls....mom learned how to ask for the restroom in French!

Hung out in Kentucky in August for 3 weeks with 100° heat and 100% humidity...I survived!

Manage to safely navigate my pack back to California in 12 days...what would they do without me?!

Just finished a 3 month stint in Kelseyville, CA where I lived a leash free life and got to eat my body weight in deer poop!

That's it, you are now up to date!

P.S. Polly update: my little sister just turned 1year old and try as I might to lose her on the road, she managed to keep up with us...😐 I think the refund period has run out on her, so I guess well keep her around!

Headed to the desert and looking forward to warmer weather and living life leash free for a few months!

It's a dogs life🐕

wiener dog epilogue - florida

our last few days in Florida were spent in the area of Cape Canaveral.  although we didn't get to see a live space launch, scrubbed until the day we left, we did get to see where the Space Shuttle Atlantis lives

we also took a hike in the jungle or as the locals call it, the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

here's a few pics from our hike and now...i'm done with florida!

 

wiener dogs in confederate country....

we are hanging at Fort McAllister State Park, yes the Fort McAllister as in "General Sherman's great march to the sea", as in civil war type stuff...yeah, that Fort McAllister.  it is on record as being one of the best preserved Confederate earthwork fortifications still remaining from the civil war.

On January 19, 1861, Georgia declared that it had seceded from the United States and joined the newly formed Confederacy the next month, during the prelude to the American Civil War. During the war, Georgia sent nearly 100,000 men to battle, mostly to the Virginian armies. The state switched from cotton to food production, but severe transportation difficulties eventually restricted supplies. Early in the war, the state's 1,400 miles of railroad tracks provided a frequently used means of moving supplies and men but, by the middle of 1864, much of these lay in ruins or in Union hands.

it's rained almost every day since we arrived in Georgia, but there was a long enough dry spell yesterday, so we went and checked out the ruins.

the park was cool cause pups were allowed and we could actually check out the inside of the mounds. this super sized brick oven below, was used for heating shot, that went into canons that would set the receiving ship on fire when it hit!  Polly was being such a spaz, mom started calling it the "puppy pizza oven"....i like pizza!

the large spiky things, used to keep the Union Army out...extremely intimidating at over 8 feet long!

here's some arsty-fartsy shots of inside the mounds...it was cool place to check out and it is wiener approved!

 

50 shades of florida...a tale of humidity, bugs and 2 wiener dogs

after a long search, we finally found summer just a few days after crashing the florida border...that would best explain our long stay in this state...we like it warm!

as it's been many, many days since this pup last posted, I'll try to gloss over the high points of our stay in the 'sunshine state' ...or this post will go on forever and i'm a pup with a short attention span!

here's a pretty color coded map of our campsites in order of stay...we started at A and 50 days later, we are at O

this state is way bigger than we thought and given that we like to meander...it's no wonder we hung out so long! each and every spot had something special about it, whether it was seclusion = leash free pups, scenery or sites to see.  here's a quick overview in pics...

dead river landing '(swamp) 

 

wright lake 

 

coe landing county park tallahassee 












stephen foster state park

ichetucknee springs - it's a spring, there's lots of them in florida...ponce de leon kinda stuff!

alexander springs - puppy practice for polly 

lake arbuckle park - this is where mom started to refer to polly piddle pants as 'gator bait'

ortona locks army corp park - the worlds largest snail shells, they were the size of lemons and thankfully vacant

 





Flamingo - everglades NP - we spent mom's birthday here

long pine key - everglades NP - drove in to key west from here...a once in a lifetime visit for us, cause those people are crazy 

 






Sebastion inlet state park 3

manatee hammock county park - yep, a pink bird

So there - you're all caught up on our adventures in florida!  it's a pretty place, but the snowbirds are a strange flock.  

after 50 days, we are ready to say 'hasta la vista, baby'...we are headed to georgia...