Dog Days of Summer RVing with the Dog...

Camping with Poochie...

All it would take is the sight of the green travel bag & hearing, "Let's go camping!" to have Poochie dancing & prancing with delight. Unfortunately, in her final year she had to rely on a wheelchair from Eddie's Wheels to get around, but she still loved to travel the open road & being in the mountains.

I’ve spent many wonderful years traveling with Poochie; her last camping trip was the first weekend of August 2008 when we went to the Adirondack Museum for Dog Days of Summer. We camped at Lake Harris; Poochie enjoyed sitting on my lap & gazing at the lake. Even though she had health problems, when we were in the mountains she seem to feel better.

On that Saturday we went to the Adirondack Museum on a kind of wet day, but still enjoyed the day. Of course, Poochie stole the hearts of many there – you can see her on the Adirondack Museum’s slideshow of Dog Days of Summer 2008: http://www.adkmuseum.org/exhibits_and_events/special_events/detail/?id=23


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The Tao of RVing & Camping...

One of our (Poochie & I) favorite places is the Catskills. We would go for early morning walks when the forest seems so still and the freshness of morning dew smells of pine and floral. Sometimes the lingering smoke of a campfire would seek its way up the rays of the sun that beam through the trees in the early morn.


Poochie would often like to sit at our campsite; her eyes, ears, and nose searching the woods for something or perhaps... maybe she was just taking in the beautiful sights, melodic sounds, and aromatic smells of the forest.


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