1800 Miles to the Rest of Our Lives: Dog Days of Summer

So trip one cross country was new and exciting....very easy for me to stay awake. Trip two, not so much. We started out on Monday morning with James driving and Snots and I in the back. Now if you know me you know that I get EXTREMELY car sick. Amazingly I was able to ride the whole way in the back with the dog keeping him calm. The first day we went just past Oklahoma City. About 60 miles from the Texas border. We did not make reservations in any hotels since we didn't know how Snots would do. Well by the time we were ready to stop, a not so desirable Econolodge was the only place to stay. Never again! Here are a few pictures of Snots on trip day one. He did SOOO great!

Excited to start the trip.

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Welcome to Arkansas

The mighty Mississippi

Getting a little bored.

Welcome to Oklahoma

Over the car ride for the day.

Day two started out with me being very ready to go due to the big ole' grasshopper in the light fixture in the itty bitty bathroom while I was taking a shower. Snots on the other hand started to have second thoughts about whether or not he wanted to be in the car. We had to give him a benedryl to help him calm down.

Snots the Navigator helping

I was having to hold him close to try to calm him down.

Welcome to New Mexico...I missed the Texas Sign

Sleepy Snots

Night two was much better, we stopped in New Mexico about 25 miles from Arizona. As we continued our journey cross country, it became more and more difficult to get Snots to take potty breaks since all of the surroundings were rocks. At the hotel they had a doggy area....all rocks no luck. He walked across the rocks like they were hot lava and refused to do his business. The hotel was much nicer a La Qunita Inn. Snots was our guard dog and barked at every noise he heard. This would not have been a problem except we had to sign sometime saying that they could kick us out if he was too bothersome. Yikes! Thank goodness he wasn't!

Day three was filled it doggie medicine and me counting down the minutes until we got to our apartment. Snots had caught on by this point that he no longer wanted to be in the car and he thought that he could get out of it by whining and crying and pacing. No such luck for him! Luckily I had doggie medicine to help him chill out. We only gave him a quarter of a pill and he was continuous entertainment for the remainder of the ride.