Well Amigos the Good News is we made it to Casa de Canterbury this morning at 4:30 EDT after a 20-hour ride from Worsham Street in Texas. The Bad News is we made it to Casa de Canterbury this morning at 4:30 EDT after a 20-hour ride from Worsham Street in Texas.
Loading up the old Dodge Dakota on Worsham Street
By the time we made our first stop, orange tarp blowing in the wind
First Stop: Crockett, Texas
Be sure you are right. Then go ahead. – Davy Crockett
Taking a road trip with Pretty and the old woman Slow is like pulling taffy. You pull and pull the candy when it’s warm and then you twist and turn it until it finally snaps and breaks off into a piece you can eat. We rode and rode and we stopped and stopped to read historical markers and ooh and aah over building murals and I don’t know what all until my patience snapped and broke like taffy.
Camp Site – Camp Street – Camp Who Cares
The Six Flags of Texas flying over Davy Crockett Memorial
If you ask me and certainly no one has, I think it’s overkill for just a place where a man wearing a coonskin cap took a break on a trip from Tennessee to San Antonio. Or was the coonskin cap the Daniel Boone guy? Oh, well. Close enough.
Sometimes we stopped at a park and Pretty took us sightseeing…
…but mostly, Pretty drove and Smokey Lonesome Ollie moped
Paw Licker Annie kicked Slow out of the front seat and rode shotgun
And The Red Man was the Navigator for 18 of the 20 hours on the road
Even the Navigator got tired
All I can say is that we were packed like sardines in that pickup cab for way too long and it was Too Close for Comfort, if you catch my drift.
Get me outta here Percy…I need to lay my weary head down on a pillow in this nice king-sized bed up in here tonight…catch you later, Sports Fans.
Red's Rants and Raves 
That’s all the time it took? I was imagining you on a two day trip. You drive like an uncle of mine who drove me to Alaska in three days. You could have took an extra hour and drove by here, if that’s the way you blaze. Guess I’m rolling up the red carpet until you decide to rocket your way back west. Glad you got there alright, close quarters sympathy included.
Later…
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That’s funny that you drove to Alaskda in three days unless you were starting from the northern tip of British Columbia!! If you started from the Midwest, Sweet Jesus. Your uncle and Pretty have a lot in common! Yes, next trip we’ll swing by Costa Rica. There’s nothing Pretty loves better than new scenery. 🙂 Be careful what you mention like this to her. She’ll pull out her map.
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All Pretty will need is to know which way South is…and I don’t mean Carolina. Costa stretches from the Caribbean to the Pacific…you can get there with eyes closed. I did. Woof to the Red and the Pack, and sorry we passed like Dakotas in the heat of travel.
Later….
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Ok, then – Pretty is happiest when she is driving. Anywhere will do, as long as it has a few historical markers along the way or at least an antique shop…costa rica here we come…later…:)
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aww the good times of trips. crowded vehicles, rubbing arm to arm, asking if we forgot to put our deoderant on, hehe, sounds like a good time all in all
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Oh yes, the good times did roll!! 🙂
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And yet Pretty somehow managed to squeeze in a field trip too! Here’s a fact: If Ma and I made such a ramshackle trip, knowing I regularly cast up my accounts on a short drive, Ma would be cleaning up the car every 30 minutes or so. Anyway, we are glad your dog and people pack is safely home in one place. Rest easy, dear Red. You’ve need a nice long restorative nap.
Love to you, Slow, Pretty and all the Casa de Canterbury pups!!!
Poppy and Ma ( Wake up Ma!!! Let Red have the dog bed now!!! 😀 )
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Uh, oh Miss Poppy…sounds like you are an “iffy” traveler so maybe long trip not for you – particularly with three other dogs and two old lesbians! I will have to drive to Pennsylvania to visit with you…later…not any time soon! Love to you and Ma from the Peeps and Pack at Casa de Canterbury, Red
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We’ve been trying to respond for over a day, and now Ma says she’s about ready to shoot her computer if it keeps up with it’s nonsense. What we wanted to tell you is you are welcome to visit us later OR sooner. We would love to see as many of you as will fit in the Dodge for the trip! 😀 Ma will make lasagna AND eggplant parmigiana so you don’t starve during your visit. And she knows all the places to get GOOD steak sandwiches and hoagies and soft pretzels.
Hugs and Sloppy Poppy kisses! 😀
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Eggplant parmigiana and lasagna – Wow! Now that’s an extra enticement for another trip to Pennsylvania!! Steak sandwiches, hoagies, the stuff dreams are made of. Yummy, yummy, yummy. Sounds like it should be sooner rather than later!! 🙂
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Hahaha, but it looks and sounds like fun!
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You know something? You are right. We love being together – even in a pickup truck for a 1,000 miles…:)
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Now you can let the car air.
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No kidding…:)
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Hope yall didn’t eat bean burritos along the way….gad!
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Not a chance. 🙂
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What a great story on a long trip… lol 😀
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Thanks so much! It’s much more fun today than it was yesterday!! 🙂
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What a great trip (and a l-o-n-g trip!) Glad you all got there safely! Now it’s time to enjoy 😀
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Yes to both!! Am trying to catch up on blogs but have been ultra busy today…how is RUC??
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It’s now got the cement posts and cross bracing in (woo hoo) so it’s not wobbling about like a ship on the ocean any more. I couldn’t go upstairs there for the past week or so because I was getting sea sick! The ‘builders’ are finishing today – thank Christ! LOL 😀
I’ve got some young guys in who are carpenters and they seem to know what they’re doing for a far lesser price that the ‘builders’….
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I see this as excellent progress, although I know you think things aren’s moving fast enough. Good that you’ve found some younger guys who can help you! I hope things pick up before long!
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They’re certainly working very hard! 😀
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Ok then – we will monitor their progress!! 🙂
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Hmmm . . . sneaking in before sunrise . . . I still suspect that you’re running from the law, Red Man ;-). And now you’ve crossed state lines. Oh no! Looks like I’ll have to raise more bail money. Whatever the reason for your road trip, I’m glad everyone arrived safely. Did you all run to separate rooms and enjoy a little alone time after your forced togetherness?
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The Red Man may need the bail money some day, but not yet! And actually, all of us raced to the king-sized bed to claim our places – very crowded – much like cab in truck, but at least we weren’t in motion!! 🙂
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