Go West Young Man

The journey of 2,200 miles starts with

a really cool car, of course, but wait. This was at the END of the trip. Back up, jack.

ROAD TRIP!!!
Is that a really big McDonald's?

Wind farms and buffalo and semi's and what could be more road trip than that.




A rest stop near Tulsa.




A layover in Albuquerque.




My BFF...Oreo.




Chillin' with the O-man




Some caves in Sante Fe.




My peeps




Back on the road....




you don't see this in OHIO....




Relief in AZ




A windfarm in Sedona




Left behind
in a Super 8 in Flagstaff...or was it a Motel 6?




A big hole somewhere... el hole' de grande!
Amazing.




Breathtaking.




Raw simple beauty.



I'm all three rolled into one.



Seriously. It was a BIG hole.


This is the Hoover Dam, so we must be close to....




Vegas, babaay!




Ready for the strip - in my American Apparel t-shirt.

No i'm not kidding.



What a town...




Whoa...






clowns scare me.





Is the car on fire?




Need ... to... go... home...

The day after...

...and fit as a fiddle at Red Rock

with smiley.

Go west young man

Murphy

OK...so it's been awhile. I seriously do not know where the time goes. Do you find yourself saying the same thing? All I know is that when you get a puppy, it's kind of (only kind of) like having a new baby in the house. Days kind of blur together in a series of repetitive events....get up, go outside, come in for cheerio treat, play, chew, eat, go outside, cheerio treat, sleep, play, drink, chew, go outside, oops! an accident, go outside again, play, chew, bite, ouch! sleep, play...okay so you get the picture.

We have really fallen for the little guy. He was 1 pound 10 oz when we brought him home , and now he is a whopping 3 pounds 7 oz. He has loads of personality, and he is quite precocious. (I remember working in a bookstore for kids, and just about every grandparent, parent, aunt and uncle was buying books for a "precocious" child. It's amazing how many of them there are running around out there.) And so it is with pets, too.

For your viewing enjoyment, here are a few photos of the little pup. We are preparing to take off for a trip out west - 2,000 miles to Vegas, baby (with Murphy in tow). More to come.




Coming home....it's kind of hard to tell them apart, but Puppy Dog was with him on the ride home and has since become his best buddy.



Murphy vs. the Flip Flop.



The flip flop won this time.....