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sorry for your loss. Sounds like the sisters are fitting in just fine. I love Ft Wilderness at Christmas. The carriage ride to see all the decorations was just wonderful. I can't image getting to live there for a couple of weeks.
Sorry for the loss of Maggie.
Trip sounds great! And even better, your furbabies will be with you.
We took them two years ago and they had a ball. Chester was amazed by the turkeys coming through the site everyday, Chubbs loved havig the bed all day and The Girls loved exploring the site loop and canal walking area.
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The membership in the National Camping Association sounds like a great investment. traveling with your puppies!
The 10% off member CG's has already paid for itself.
The weekend after we got them we had ressies for a local CG that was having a Fun Themed weekend. So they got their first taste of Adventuring. Lucille took them in her car as we had planned to go over to Chincoteague Island and check it out. Unfortunately It was way too hot Real feel temp of 113+ and they are still a little too wld to leave at home alone for that long. So we just spent a lot of time at our site as the 2 pools were filled to beyond capacity.
They liked going out and exploring the Wilderness. Sometimes a bit too much as they would forget why we were out walking around. Katie must think she was trying out for Special Forces as she kept laying down and then crawling the next 10 feet or so. That is some thing she continues to do at home when she wants to sneak up on us or the cats .
As we know at Disney we are going to have a golf cart and tThe Wagging Tails Bark Park is a good bit from the loop we are hoping for we decided a golf cart was a good idea for the weekend. Well the kids loved it. They take turs riding on the seat between Lucille and I and The floor at Lucille's feet. Next time they are in for a rude awakening as WookieBear has also discovered she likes riding in the cart but has to be with me in the front so Mommy and the kids will be regulated to the rear seat
Sorry sorry for your loss but thank you so much to giving homes to two dogs that needed one. We have had two dogs for many years and when one passes the other gets very depressed so along comes another dog. Rescue dogs are the best and my guess is your shy girl will forever appreciate you both.
I cannot look at rescue sites. It breaks my heart that so many wonderful dogs don't have homes and I wish I could add to my fur baby family but sometimes I think the two I have (one 97.5 pounds strong and not overweight) are more than any 64 year old lady should have.
sorry for your loss. Sounds like the sisters are fitting in just fine. I love Ft Wilderness at Christmas. The carriage ride to see all the decorations was just wonderful. I can't image getting to live there for a couple of weeks.
Last year we had hoped to go 2 weeks but trip had to be canceled due to coach needing repairs so I saved vacay time and we decided to spend more Fort time with less touring time and maybe getting a car last two weeks and seeing new Harry Potter stuff at Universal and poss. even hitting Sea World 1 day
Sorry sorry for your loss but thank you so much to giving homes to two dogs that needed one. We have had two dogs for many years and when one passes the other gets very depressed so along comes another dog. Rescue dogs are the best and my guess is your shy girl will forever appreciate you both.
I cannot look at rescue sites. It breaks my heart that so many wonderful dogs don't have homes and I wish I could add to my fur baby family but sometimes I think the two I have (one 97.5 pounds strong and not overweight) are more than any 64 year old lady should have.
Sky is no longer Miss Shy but a definite Daddy's girl. Hopefully that will translate well this weekend when leash training starts this weekend.
Know all too well about depression after loss that is how we ended up with Maggie and expected loss of Wookiebear is why we got two .
Sorry for the loss of your sweet Maggie but it seems like you truly saved two other lives that are definitely already part of your growing family. Looking forward to reading more about the new fur kids and your trip.
Day 2 on the road
This is another short travel day. Either we will leave Camp Wilderness early enough to get through Richmond before rush hour or after it should be over. This is mostly because the Richmond/ Petersburg bypass is the most boring strech of road I know of. Swampland on both sides and nothing but cattails and reeds on all sides. Luckily our 1st fuel stop is about 90 miles from the campground so everyone gets to stretch their legs and do a potty break.
Lucille is still debating on a stop at JR's in Selma NC Recent reports we've read and a check of their website doesn't look like things are improved from our last trip so most likely we'll either just push on to exit 49. Thee is our favorite CRACKER BARREL there and we try to stop at least once each trip either on the way down or way back.
Final destination for today is South of the Border just over the SC line. We could likely go a lot more than the 270 miles my trip planner says but other places we want to stay at are either just too far or don't offer a Bark Park or leave us so close to next days destination I won't want to stop and Lucille wants to be off the road at like 3:30 every afternoon. On the plus side we can both now say we have been to a place many of our friends growing up all have been to.
You guys certainly sound like you have some great adventures!! Those stops sound like fun. We Cracker Barrel but I agree some are better than others.
Tara I just seeing the darned thing just sit in the driveway. We have so many great CG's next door in Va and up your way that we try to get away once every month. Even if it's just us we find ways to have fun.
That CB is where we stopped for breakfast on Lucille's first Disney trip so there is a connection there
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Cracker Barrel and when we drive, we eat CB every meal! I'm ready for another road trip! Like your nice, easy way of traveling down!
I prefer to try and get about 350 miles everyday but with the 2 little ones really not sure we can push it that far. Plus this way we get to revisit some some of the places we have been to and liked and investigate ones we have never been to and have wanted to try
Road trip still looking good and you can't beat a Cracker Barrel for good food.
Onlyone not thrilled with long trips is Chubbs. She and Chester ride under platform for our bed . They come out at night and claim top of bed, once we stop for longer period of time she claims entire bedroom as her own domain.
CB is favorite place to stop when on the road Good food reasonable prices and happy atmosphere.
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