Georgia on my mind…

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Mary Angelou

After leaving Hot Springs, Arkansas on September 25, we arrived back in Texas. Our home was the KOA in Arlington, Texas. Big Dog and Momma Dog had doctor appointments, some adjustments on Tana’s body work and some friends to see. After about 10 days in Texas we were on the road again with memories of a campfire with melting s’mores, seeing sweet Braxton and Michelle Lykins, Karen DeSimone and grilled chicken, Jim and Glenna Cleworth and BBQ, Nicci Kennedy and Vietnamese food, Holly Brown and Schlotsky’s and Sarah Stringer and a cheese board. I guess you can tell the humans like tasty food-and sometimes I get a few bites.

This is a picture of me on our last night in Texas. Momma Dog’s cousin Karen Desimone gave me this journal.

Our next stop was the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe, Louisiana. Our tour guide was a Vietnam veteran and he invited me inside the museum, which was a canine first!

This was a special room where we watched a film.
Claire Chennault was an interesting man.
I had never seen a Swastika before.
Mama Dog and Big Dog and me by the Chennault statue.
Here is our spot in the parking lot at the museum. I don’t really understand this bird but he had military symbols on him.
I am posing in front of uniforms from West Point.

The next morning we set out for the Birmingham, Alabama area. We visited and spent the night at Corbin Farms Winery. The humans tasted and purchased Alabama wine and I posed for photos. I do enjoy sniffing in a vineyard, though.

Finally on Monday, October 7 we arrived in Georgia and Jennie picked us up at the National Indoor RV Center. Momma Dog was so happy to be with her offspring again.

Me and Momma Dog (all smiles) riding to Jennie’s house.

Tana was scheduled for her window replacement and repair of the leveling jacks-so we stayed at the Sankey home with Jennie and Steve and their dogs, Bob and Athena. Athena is their foster dog, and I quickly noticed that her and Bob were very close canine companions. I mostly watched their escapades, but did enjoy eating the bag of meatballs and loaf of bread that conveniently “fell off” the kitchen counter for the three of us to enjoy!

Jennie and Steve Sankey. Baby Girl Sankey is due to arrive in January 2020.
Bob
Bob, Athena and I enjoying a bite of Big Dog’s famous smoked chicken.
Athena
This is the back patio at the Sankey home. Big Dog and Momma Dog enjoyed tending to the plants and blowing the constantly falling leaves away.
Momma Dog spent several days creating these scarecrows for the Sankey yard. Do you know these two?
Big Dog and Momma Dog learned to walk all three of us at one time and to show our pleasure we usually each left our calling card (liquid and solid) along the path.
With a human baby coming soon, Steve has mastered the jogging stroller. I wish I had a stroller so my humans could push me around.
Joanna and Jennie took my humans to The Waffle House for blueberry waffles and Momma Dog brought a bite of bacon home for all three canines.

We are back in Tana and staying near Stone Mountain, Georgia. Our “home” is about 10 miles from Steve and Jennie and about 20 miles from Joanna.

A flock of geese at our RV park are scared of me!

The humans stayed busy preparing for a baby shower for Jennie and Steve Sankey on November 9. I stayed home on house watch.

The nursery theme is moon and stars and I think I could teach this baby to howl at the moon. Momma Dog and Big Dog also did a bit of painting in the closet and staining a bookcase to help. We loved our October to early November visit in Georgia. The leaves were lovely and the humans were wagging their tails a lot, probably because they spent lots of time with their pups-who are now grown up.

Big Dog
The parents to be of Baby Human Girl Sankey
Joanna, Jennie, Steve, Big Dog, Momma Dog

Then on November 11, it was time to travel again. We are going to Arizona for Thanksgiving via Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico, with our final stop in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. I am told there will be a family feline and two canines there!

Thanks for reading my travel blog!

Kind regards and sniffs and woofs-

Magic

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