FINALLY REACHED THE EAST COAST!

We left Alabama this morning and headed into Georgia. Santa thought that we had left in plenty of time to miss the traffic around Atlanta. We took the outer loop to avoid downtown, but there was still quite a bit of traffic. I must admit that Dad did a great job maneuvering this big monster. In fact we expect much more traffic now that we are heading into the east coast.

Even though, Mom does not admit it, I don’t think she likes traveling in this coach any more than I do. However, the weather has continued to be sunny and fairly warm. But we suspect that North Carolina will be much cooler.

We are finally nearing the end of the I20. We took this route almost from beginning to end. We picked it up in Texas and have been on this for the last 5 days. Actually, it has been a rather nice route, but we finally had to leave it to pick up I85 to go north into South Carolina.

I don’t enjoy the long travel days as I can’t really relax and sleep like I am used to doing. However, we all liked the Welcome Center in South Carolina. We stopped for lunch there and it was situated alongside the river. It was so beautiful we decided to eat outside so we could really enjoy the scenery. I finally got a chance to run around and dip my paw in the river. I SO hated to leave and get in the shake, rattle and roll bus again!

Anyway, we headed toward High Point, NC to see a couple more of Santa’s friends. They took us to a really nice park where were able to park in front of a small lake. It is a bit cooler, but great for me. There is plenty of space to run and tomorrow we get to stay put. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FISHING FOR NOTHING!

Both Mom and Dad were very tired so we decided to spend the morning here. We had camped near a small lake, so Santa couldn’t wait to get out his fishing poles and gear. We had a quick breakfast and walked over to the lake.

Santa got Mom all set up and told her to cast off a little pier. Then Santa took his fishing pole and went over by some weeds and started to cast there. All the while I was watching Dad choose just the right pole, just the right bait, etc. I thought it sure was a lot of work to just catch a fish. I figured that if they really wanted a fish that bad that I would go into the lake and just get one for them. I started for the lake and they both yelled at me NOT to go in. Well, why not? Sometimes they are just plain weird.

So they both “fished” for a couple of hours, now do you think they caught anything? Of course not! They just kept changing places and casting over and over for nothing. AND people can’t understand dog behavior?

Anyway, we did a little exploring and found out that a Civil War squirmish was fought here. Apparently, it was a rather small unexpected meeting and no one was killed or injured so that was a good thing.

Mom really likes history so she is very excited to be in this part of the country. By the way, I think I forgot to mention it, but it has not rained once since we left Arizona. Each day has been sunny and nice.

This afternoon, we traveled onto Alabama, not far from the border of Georgia. Tomorrow we hope to make it to North Carolina.