Are we there yet?

It is that time of year again to head up north to visit our friends over the Fourth of July.  This year we are meeting up in a cabin located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  As you can see in the picture below, Riggs is all clean and ready to roll.

Happy 4th of July

We are back up north for our annual Fourth of July trip to visit our friends.  Second year in a row of Riggs behaving in the long 10 hour car ride.  Mama’s friend made Riggs a patriotic bandana to wear on the 4^th.  He was a little sleepy from the Benadryl apparently since we took a picture just as he was doing a big yawn.  Took him for a nice long walk later that night when it was cool outside and he kept looking around in every direction at the sounds of fireworks going off.  He was not sure what to make of all of it.

Yaaaaawn!

Road Trip

Now having a dog has made taking trips a bit more of a challenge.  We went and checked out some local boarding places to see what the conditions were like and did not get that warm and fuzzy feeling about leaving Riggs there.  We also looked into having someone watch him at their home and that was too expensive.  So we decided to take him with us on our annual road trip up north.

Each year Vanessa and I go visit some friends that are about 10 hrs north of us.  This was our first long road trip with Riggs.  He ended up doing great.  No accidents in the car or at the hotel we were staying at.  Why the hell can we not get him to do that at home yet?