Friday, October 15, 2010

Day 55 - Ventura, CA

Well, here we are, finally at home after all these weeks.  Seems a little strange!  Geri says that she's still got her sea legs, and feels like she's on the coach.  I'm doing fine, except now I've got that darned cat back in  my life.  Don's a little tired, after fighting his way down the 101 all day.  But we're all glad to be here, safe and sound. 

I have to tell you about our walk this morning.  Don took me down to the beach at Moss Landing, something he always does when we are there.  I'm always impressed by the surf, and I remember how excited Buddy used to get when we were at the ocean.  He would always use his demand bark until Don or Geri threw something out into the water for him to swim out to retrieve.  The further you threw it, the better he liked it.  I don't have quite the same feeling about the surf.  I respect it, and I'm a little afraid of it, so I don't go into it.  I will get my paws wet if I can't outrun it, but that doesn't happen much.  This morning, I was standing just at the surf line, looking out at the ocean.  Suddenly, about twenty feet in front of me, a head popped out of the water!  He was looking straight at me, like he was taunting me to come in after him!  Don urged me to go out to him, but I was frozen!  I turned and ran back to Don, hoping that he would tell me what that creature was.  I wasn't disappointed; Don told me that it was a Harbor Seal, a friendly mammal type animal, who probably wanted to play with me.  Well, too bad; I don't play much on dry land with other dogs, much less with aquatic mammals in the ocean.  Sorry to disappoint him.  But I did have a good time running on the beach, and getting my paws a little wet.

Geri is still flabbergasted over the events of last night, it was a magnificent surprise for her.  Carol,
Mikey and the boys are to be congratulated on the smooth way they brought it off.  I'm just glad that Gary didn't present her with another dog, like he did at the last surprise party.  It was a really fun evening for everyone, including me!

We always ask our fellow travellers at the end of each journey which town or city was their favorite during the trip.  Here's the results this time:

Geri: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,  because of the beauty of the setting, and the lovely downtown area
Don: Wallace, Idaho, because it had retained it's Gold Rush identity so well, with well preserved period buildings and a frontier aura
Me: Lynnwood, Washington, 'cause I get to hang with my old bud Gary and do morning walks in some really great places!

The end of a trip like this has its ups and downs, the downs mostly due to the work we have to do in unloading the rig, doing repairs, and getting it back into storage.  But the ups are the memories we have of all the fun times we shared, seeing new places and things, meeting nice people, and being together as a family on the road.  Hope you enjoyed our accounts of this voyage; we'll let you know when we're embarking on another!  Vaya con Dios, Amigos!

1 comment:

  1. Nicely finished DeeBee.......Now you just have the cat to deal with.

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