The last hike of our trip needed to be within a day’s drive of the Stuck House, since we had to quit being hobos and go back to being...

The idea for this trip came from TV. Mom’s been watching a lot of learning shows about Westerners migrations. Everybody knows about the...

The cold wasn’t a temperature but a kind of pain when Mom got out of our comfy nest and opened the Wagon doors to make her poop juice....

“Hey look,” Mom said, as she gazed deep into The Witch’s screen. “St. George is only an hour or two beyond Las Vegas. Why don’t we blow...

I ran into the past this morning. I took Mom to run on a trail that we used to run a few times a week before I was transferred to a...

This morning Mom took me to the dog beach, where a dog can let his life partner run without a leash through the sand for miles and miles....

Being underemployed is very boring. With only one direct report to supervise all day, I stare at her until I fall asleep, and when I wake...

Halfway through our trip to Washington Mom had gotten lazy while using the dog bathroom, and instead of lifting her leg like she was...

I’ve been on enough vacations now to know that vacations have an expiration date. A vacation may not turn stinky, putrid and puzzling...

Do you ever worry about something only because you know about it? Like if Mom doesn’t know a minor emergency is coming –like a full car...

The mountains in Washington are steep in a way that I think might be illegal in California, because I’ve never climbed anything in...

Mom says that she lived in California for many years without ever smelling smoke in the Stuck House places. But for as long as I’ve been...

We had more bear stuff than could fit in the running packpack, so even though we’d already finished the Running with the Bears virtual...

“Hey, guess what?!” I nudged Mom when I saw her finally starting to stir in the morning. Then I jumped up to point my nose out the Wagon...

As the Covered Wagon rolled over the trail through the Oregon Outback and cooking us alive, Mom and I listened to stories about the...

Once upon a time Mom and I discovered an enchanted place with a lake like a mirror, a sparkling waterfall, and an enchanted pond that hid...

I’m not a dog that’s easily surprised. When the Covered Wagon pulls off the Wagon Trail somewhere in nature, I know I’m in for an...

There’s this enormous lake up in the mountains that sparkles in the brightest sapphire grey. It’s as deep as a mountain is tall, and as...

When we got to the trail the morning after surviving driving through a cloud during what Mom called a “lighting storm,” the sun was out,...

When an explorer has discovered a spectacular place, it’s hard to decide whether to return to that place or leave it behind to explore...