Hello my furry 4 legged and human followers. Lindsey here checkin’ in again with my Weekly Bark Report. This week I want to bark at you about Boondocking with Dogs at Niagara Falls. (I think a better name would be Boon-Dogging.  Whatcha all think? Or am I barkin’ up the wrong tree? Ha! Get it? I kill me sometimes.)

Dad caught me getting a snack before writing my bark report! I love Stella and Chewy!!

Yummy!!

This venture was the bestest yet! We stayed at somethin’ called a Caaa-Seen-O. Mom said the name of it was Seneca Niagara. (She has to help with the big words.)  It was this really big lot behind a huge-mong-us building with lots and lots and lots of lights all over it at night. And some great pee-mail for this low-rider to check out too.

So at this Niagara place, Mom and Dad took me there one day to check it out.  Whoa! That’s alotta water dude!  And it is movin’ really fast.  I bet even a Greyhound couldn’t catch it. I think someone musta forgot to turn off the water. That’d be one really wet house if we did that in ours.

 But you know I was sooo kool sitting there at the water that all the humans around were watchin’ while I did my thing. Other people I don’t even know wanted to take my picture. Go figure. Dad called me a crowd magnet. I didn’t like being so close to all that water.  It was kinda scary but I had to pretend to be brave cuz everyone was watchin’ me. Just acted like I was chillin’ and catchin’ some rays.

Yo, and on our way back to the Caaa-Seen-O I got to play chest.  We found some sidewalk games at a place called Old Falls Street.  Dad was gonna teach me but then some nice lady asked to take my picture to put on their website.

How kool is that?!  All over the world humans will see me!  Fame is tough y’all but somebody’s gotta do it. (Okay, Mom just got in my face for that. Saz I don’t need a big head. A bubble butt is all we can handle in our house.)

There was this huge checkers board too, but I didn’t want to play that.  It didn’t look as fun as the chest game.  And after chest we got to kool off at a street Found-tin.  It was right by a hawnted house. I didn’t get to go in that house.  Too scary.

Oh, oh and then I gotta tell ya about the day Mom and Dad went acrost the border.  I don’t know what that means, but Dad said I couldn’t go cuz I didn’t have my traveling papers.  Huh? I grew out of potty papers when I was a pupster.  That’s okay cuz I got a really good nap while they wuz gone.

They walked acrost this Rainbow Bridge. I asked if they saw Maya over there cuz she went over a Rainbow Bridge last year.  No, no Maya. I’m sad about that. Then he tells me Mom almost did come back cuz she didn’t have any money to crost the bridge.  Barooo!!  He’z such funny guy. Gotta luv my Dad. I know he would’t leave Mom there.   I can’t help him drive cuz my legs are too short.  Best I could do is be co-pilot.

Mom and Dad leave these stuffed things in the seats so I can’t write on the windows with my nose! Bummer!!

I got to see lots of purty pitures of that place Dad called Can-A-Da.  Maybe I coulda found some new furry friends from over there, ya know, eh?  (I’m trying to learn a new language. Any Can-A-Dee-An furry friends out there to help me out?)

I sure hope Mom and Dad do some more Boon-dogging at maybe some other really neato place. Stay tuned for our next adventure and feel free to bark at me below. I’ll check back with ya after my nap.

Lindsey out….

Traveling in an RV is one of the greatest ways to get out and visit great places.  No matter where you are you always have your home with you!  For full time RVers, this is especially true!  However, one thing I have observed in our seven years of full time RV living is that some people tend to forget about safety.  I would like to suggest a few RV safety tips that may help the seasoned, as well as the occasional RV traveler.

Consider Weighing Your RV!

The first, and most important one I think is to know how much your RV weighs!  If you have no idea what your fully loaded RV is carrying you should consider weighing your RV!   The biggest argument I hear against taking the time to get this done is, “I still have more storage space so I must be okay!”  That may be true, but it does not always work that way.

If you were to take a completely empty RV, look at the data plate that specifies the gross vehicle weight rating and subtract the weight of your empty RV, you would have your carrying capacity of the vehicle.  Now depending on the class of RV you have there are several other factors to consider.  But for this discussion lets keep it simple.

From there you would have to know how much water you want to carry and calculate that weight and add it to the vehicle’s empty weight.  Then, you would have to weigh each individual item going into the RV and stop loading any more items when you reach the vehicle’s gross vehicle weight rating. But, how can you know that you have the vehicle loaded evenly?

What if you have not exceeded the RV’s gross vehicle weight rating but have more weight on one side of the RV than on the other?  This condition might be overloading the tires and axles on one side and possibly create a situation where a tire failure could occur.  Damage may also occur to the axles themselves if this condition continues for extended periods of travel.

When Pam and I bought another RV earlier this year I put weighing the RV on the top of the list of things I wanted to accomplish.  Given it is a class C RV, and that we are pulling a cargo trailer with all our stuff, I knew that this RV would be easy to overload.  Even in our 5th wheel we had to watch the carrying capacity very closely.  All the appliances and three slides were on the street side of the RV and only one slide with very little weight in it was on the curb side.  So, we had to put the heavier items on that side of the RV to balance out the carrying capacity of the RV.

Once we loaded our new RV we made it a point to find a service that could weigh our RV.  These types of services can be found at RV Owner’s group rallies and RV shows.  Now this is not like taking your RV to a Pilot / Flying J truck scale.  That only tells you the total weight of a vehicle.  What you need to know is how much weight is on each axle, and more important than that, each tire so that overloading can be avoided.

We started this weighing process by filling out a form that asked questions about the RV, axle ratings, tire type and weight ratings of those tires.  Once the RV was weighed at each tire, and including our trailer, a report was generated to determine where we were at with our loaded RV.

We found out that our vehicle was slightly overweight on the rear axle and slightly underweight in the front axle.  This included the weight of our trailer on the hitch of the RV.  Also, the trailer was slightly underweight and the cargo weighted evenly on each side of the trailer.  So, our major concern was the rear axle of the RV under its current load.  But, according to the folks that weighed the RV, as long as we keep the tires at the correct cold pressure values and don’t exceed 65mph, we are well within acceptable limits.

Given that Pam and I are never in a hurry when we travel, and maintain our speed between 60 – 65mph, we are good to go.  I will also add that as we continue to live the full time RV lifestyle we will continue to get rid of things we don’t use.  That will help us to continue to lighten the load!

I would like to comment on one more RV safety tip.  Please be sure that when you are traveling in your RV that you have your propane system turned off!  In the event that something should happen on the road: a tire blowout, hitting a road alligator (road debris), or some other unforeseen circumstance, you don’t want to have your energized propane system create a catastrophic event when the system is damaged during travel!

Most people travel with their propane tanks on in order to keep their propane refrigerator cold.  The truth is that if you do not open the refrigerator during travel it will remain at acceptable temperature levels.  

If you have a motorized unit you can use your generator and switch over to electric cooling to keep it cool.  If you don’t have that option you can put a small block of ice in the fridge to help with cooling.  Pam and I have used both methods successfully in order to travel safely when it comes to avoiding the use of propane to run the refrigerator.

I hope both these RV safety tips will help you to continue to enjoy safe RV travel!  

Happy Travels!!

Howard, Pam and Lindsey

Greetings from our RV!

Parked at Lake Kenisee – Thousand Trails in Jefferson Ohio

Pam, Lindsey and I are currently in Jefferson, Ohio spending some time at a Thousand Trails RV park and enjoying full time RV living!  It’s hard to believe we started doing this back in 2008 and it has already been that long ago.  Time sure goes by fast!

The first RV Trip with a rental unit!

We had so much fun we thought we’d try a bigger RV!

A Class C Rental Unit in Vegas!

We were able to rent a nice diesel pusher!

A Class A gas rental RV in our driveway in the mountains of Colorado -this is what would fit in the driveway!

Back to the beach in Destin!

2008 – Finally, our first full time RV living home!

There have been lots of experiences and lots of learning too!  When we think of how green we were back in 2002, when we took out our first RV, we just have to laugh at all the silly things we did early on because we did not know what living in an RV would be like, or even how to use it:

• Thinking the air conditioner should run just because it’s plugged into shore power. What?  It needs 12 volts too?  You mean there is a battery switch that has to be turned on?  Huh?? (an RV tech course solved those kind of issues!)
• How come the TV had reception yesterday and not today?  You mean that little button has to be pushed in one way for cable and another for the over-the-air channels?   There’s a thing called an antenna booster?
• Not realizing a sewer hose donut was not a strong enough seal to keep the sewer hose from flying out of the sewer pipe when pulling the black tank valve – a true RV movie moment!  Yes, there was a fecal incident outside our poo palace, our kaka castle, our dodo dwelling, our fart fort, well you get the idea!  LOL
• Burying the rear axle of a 38′ diesel pusher in a drainage ditch while trying to enter an RV parks narrow entrance in the dark because we did not do enough research before trying to get to the campground.
• Having a Suburban water heater and not realizing that it has an anode rod and that it needs to be removed/replaced, and the water heater flushed regularly, or some bad things happen to the tank!
• Using the black tank rinsing system to fill the tank after dumping in order to flush the tank with fresh water but forgetting to pull the gate valve when it got full of water because someone got distracted and started talking to other campers.  That’s something you do once and never do again!
• Traveling with the RV’s propane system energized and almost losing the RV due to a freakish incident inside the RV that caused the cook top stove to turn on full blast and burn up the cook top cover.  Had we decided not to stop and check the 5th wheel it would have been a goner!
• Spending hours on the side of the road on a very warm day with a blown tire because we were overloaded and never figured that just because we have the room in the RV does not mean we can carry everything we want.
• Tearing up a street side rear cargo door backing in an RV site.  I thought Pam was being attacked by a bee, but the dance she was doing in my rear view mirror was to tell me to stop because I was running over the water spigot that was painted brown and just blended into the scenery I was seeing in the mirror.  We have learned to communicate better over the years!

Okay, I could go on but you get the idea!  When one starts the full time RV living lifestyle with little previous knowledge, these things can happen. Fortunately for us we did most of these bonehead type things on rented vehicles.  A few more happened in our own RV but we have minimized that due to talking with others about avoiding such things, and researching, so we can learn all we can about our home on wheels!

This year we have been traveling much more than we have in the past six years.  We stopped work camping at RV parks and are traveling for our business helping to build up the NRVIA RV inspector workforce on the east coast of the United States.  We have been in a different location every few weeks and it has been a blast!

We have discovered that associations we made over the past seven years have helped us to secure reasonable RV park campsites even given traveling in the summer months in the northeast.  Several of our favorites are the KOA value card, the Passport America camping pass, and the Good Sams card.  We have also recently discovered freecampgrounds.com for one or two-night stop overs.  We find this a great way to make a quick stop in an area for little to no cost.  We have also been able to park in friends and families yards which has been wonderful!!

There are a few other things that are really important when enjoying full time RV living!  Be able to get your snail mail and ordering items online that you just can’t get in the areas you may be visiting.

We use Passport America’s mail forwarding service and have been since 2010.  It works well!  As long as we are in a spot for a week or so we can get our mail shipped to us by first class postage for just a few dollars.  We are only required to do this about once a month.  We get most of our important mail electronically, but there are still a few things that need to go to a physical address.

We like to eat as healthfully as we can and in some places we have been the past few months we were not able to get the items that we have enjoyed in other places.  Thank goodness for Amazon, and more importantly Amazon Prime membership!  For $99 a year we get free two-day shipping to whatever location we are at.  It’s awesome!!

We enjoy a pancake mix that is better than most called Pamela’s Baking & Pancake mix.  I was having a craving for some pancakes and we ran out. We could not find the mix in our current location so I ordered it through Amazon on Saturday and I had it on Monday early afternoon.  How cool is that!!  Guess what we had for breakfast the next day?

If it is not available through Amazon Prime, which is rare, I can usually find what I want elsewhere and order it.  The only problem is getting it fast enough so that it arrives before I leave for another destination.  And, sometimes these other websites back order items I have ordered and I don’t get what I need.  So, lately I have just been loyal to Amazon as free two-day shipping gets the job done!

So, in a few days we are off to the Niagara Falls area for a few nights of free camping, and not sure where we will go after that.  We will be in Hershey, PA for a month of September during the Hershey PA RV show, one of the largest in the country, and then teaching an advanced RV inspector class in early October.

From there we are off to Heber Springs, AR to spend time with the awesome folks from Workamper News and the NRVIA.

We are truly blessed to be able to live the life we dreamt of even before Pam and I were married.  Back in the 1980’s we were looking at RV’s and imagining a lifestyle that would encompass being able to travel and enjoy full time RV living.  We had no idea how that would happen.  But, here we are 30 years later and we could not have imagined when we started seven years ago how it would have manifested itself in this way!  RV life is awesome!!

Please leave a comment if we can be of assistance to you as you are considering, or perhaps just starting to enjoy full time RV living!

Blessings,

Howard and Pam

Hello my furry and human followers.  Lindsey here lovin’ Small RV Living with my Weekly Bark Report.  Mom and Dad call our small home on wheels a Winnie-Bagel Aspect. Not sure why.  I know what a bagel is but I thought Winnie was a bear.  A poo bear to be exact.  Hmm.  He must be pretty smelly if he’s made out of poo.  From my point of view our Winnie doesn’t smell so who can figure out humans?

So this week I get to tell you all about small RV living.  (I like to call it our small RoVer.  Kinda cute, huh? Get it, Dog, Rover?  Sometimes I crack myself up.  Baroooo!) At first I had to really get used to Mom and Dad crowding me in bed but I trained them good enuff.  If I push just right I can push mom right off the bed.  That let’s her know who’s the boss of this RV!

Dad takes a little more leg action to push him. There’s a really neato place to help me get up on the bed.  Our other RV didn’t have that.  I have to be first to get dibs on the bed.  If I’m really good I can even get the tv thingy and change channels for them.  I sometimes like to sleep on it just in case the need arises.

Another great thing about small RV living is that we spend a lot of time outdoors enjoying the different places we stop at.  I love that because I always have lots of p-mail to answer!  Also, I get lots of Mom and Dad time. I keep close just in case they need me!

My favoritist thing about our Winne is I get to sits between the seats when we are moving down the road.  Right there by Mom and Dad makin’ sure they are doing everything just right with their hands on that wheel thing. How cool is that?!  

AND playing ring when we are moving is the bestest game every.  They throw it and I bring it back!  Adds a new level to the game.  Just need to tell y’all to be careful to not hit the bed if they round a corner or start up real quick. Stops can send me slidin’ on the floor.  Don’t like that much. I fell down the door steps once or twice and it’s scary.  

With this RV I can look out the door all the time.  Dad thinks he’s so smart putting something on the seat when they are gone but I know if I lay just right I get a clear view out the door window.  All that action going on out there that I missed in that big old Box we used to have.  

Yo, and check out the kitchen. It is so handy for me to be ready for clean up when Mom drops something chopping or hang under the table waiting for my humans to miss their mouth and drop it.  I think this small home was made for all us dogs.  I bet someone with a really cool name like Jack Russell Coachman, Jake-o Von Dash Hund, Chi Chi Huahua Thor (has identity issues) or even Winnie Beagle, Like ours! made these boxes.  Is this heaven?   

There’s this one really big storage place outside in the back.  Mom says Got-He could have left a body in there.  Don’t know this Got-He guy but I know it’s really big back there. Of course all MY stuff goes inside.  My bedroom is always close by just in case I get tired and need a nap or need to be on duty watchin’ the door when mom and dad are gone.  

All toys present and accounted for as well as leash and winnie-the poo bags right at the door for those social activities.  Gotta have your priorities.  Just so cozy for this full-time RVing pup.  What more could a dog ask for?  Toys, sleep, walks, dinner and a movie all close at hand.  I’m so glad Mom and Dad got this for me!  Barooo!

Lindsey Out!  Leave a comment for me if you would like a more personal response back instead of the usual p-mail!

Hello again to all my furry followers. For this week’s Bark Report  I want to talk to y’all about somethin’ I jus learned about called Glamping with Dogs, RV style. I was thinkin’ pretty hard what I could bark at you about this week and suddenly it came to me.  I been pickin’ up sniffs and pees-ess about this everywhere.   For those of you that don’t know what glampin’ is, it’s a way kool way to go kampin’.  Glamour-us Kamping. Baroo! For this RV kampin’ corgi it’s the only way to go. All about goin’ in style. First class.

So your trusty pup reporter is here to tell you about some kool glampin’ we did this past week  It was right on a lake. (Lake means water, which I for one avoid as much as possible. I am not a Labra-dork after all.)  I jest like to sit and look at it from dry dock thank you very much. The view was great.

This kamp was in someplace called  ‘Sconsin.  I think that’s the place. It wasn’t really a big kamp cuz it was just us and the locals but lots of really neato stuff to do!  They had this really really big bed and breakfast house.  It had a s’more-gus-bord on the floor at all times of the day, lots of beds to lay on, a neato hot tub room to catch some rays, kitchen open all day, lots of ball games and rooms galore to explore.  And it was all-inclusive, if you know what I mean.

And there is a private spa by the lake.  One of the locals invited me in. Gees dude!  The water’s freezin’ and he’s layin’ in it.  He was such a dork-boy.  Hot good, cold brrr!   He sez he knows a good place to go roll in the weeds if I was interested. Sorry, but your fish cologne was a bit overpowering for even me.  Plus I’m already interested in someone else.

A course stayin’ at a lake must involve at least one water trip. One day we went to this meetin’ place on the river.  It was really crowded with lots of boats and humans and music and even some other dogs.   All the humans seemed to know each other. I think it mighta been some sorta party.  All were jest standin’ and splashin’ in the water.  I refused to get out cuz I didn’t have my life jacket (and it was wet).  Plus I only know how to dog paddle and it was deep for me.

Yo, yo like check me out!  One day I sneaked the keys to take Dad’s 2 wheel thingy to go out for a spin when they left.  What to my doggy dismay would happen, handles too far for my paws to stand on.  Drat the cat!  It woulda been so kool with the wind in my ears.  Mom said maybe someday we can get a sidecar jest for me.  And of course, I would have to have some Doggles.  Call me kool, jest don’t call me late for dinner.

Every nite we had live entertainment too.  My new friend Leinie was called the sleep singer cuz he did his best singin’ in his sleep.  Purdy good but didn’t know the words too well.  Dude! It was the Beatles!  No wonder he wasn’t gettin’ many Scoobie Snacks in his tip jar. Poor guy.  And he’s gonna be a dad again next month.

Well Mom is a tappin’ her foot at me with that look. I think I’ll just look at the funny palm tree that was growing here and think about my next bark report.

Until next time, 

Lindsey out

Mom Here!  Please be sure to let your fur-kids share their thoughts with Lindsey!  I’ll be sure to give her get time to respond.

Hello my four legged and two legged followers. Lindsey here with my Weekly Bark Report to report on how Corgi Dogs and RVs united at the Middlebury KOA.  As promised I’m here to give you first paw account on Corgi-Palooza that Mz Hope hosted. You are hearin’ it straight from the corgi’s mouth as this reporter was front and center.

I’m a little behind my barkline cuz Mom and Dad were busy last week with Dad’s class and wouldn’t let me use the computer.  Kinda bites but I’m here to tell all about it now. As they say here in Amish country, you are gettin’ it straight from the horseys mouth. Mom says I’m just a pup reporter but I do want to someday update y’all on other doggy events.  This was just getting my paws wet.

All our parents came in RVs with their furry kids. In my opinion, I feel we must have a comfy ride going to these things.  Mom and Dad always sez they likes to travel in style, and be comfort-able. Duh! Well so do we.  It’s all about the ride you know.  How would it look if us dogs showed up in something beneath our stature.  (For corgis that can be tuff since we are short by most dog standards.) I do have to let my humans drive my home because my legs just don’t reach those pedal thingys on the floor. There’s my short stature again. Sorry, rabbit trail.

Back to the Palooza. We had this really kool place by the pond where we could all FRAP together. (That’s corgi-eze for Frequent Random Acts of Play.)  Some of the boyz don’t play too good. Over a stupid ball.  Geez, grow up.  There was a whole package of ballz and they all wanted the same one.  Us girls played cheerleader on the sidelines.  Kiah even had on her KOA yellow cheerleader outfit.

The baby that came really liked the ice pool.  She thought she was queen of the hill until one of the boyz wanted to dig in it.  Not for this corgi.  I spent enuff time in our big house in the mountains.  Had my share of doing my bizness in that cold suff and freezin’ my puppy paws with ice kookies stuck between my toes.  Brrrr!  Makes me want to crawl under a blanket just thinking about it.  Oops. Rabbit trail again.

Mr Kool Koi had his own kissing booth.  Ms Hope said if you wanted a Koi Kiss she would give to somethin’ called KOA Kare Kamps.  I guess it’s for sick small humans.  I just stealed kisses from him whenever I saw him. I think his real name is Koi Bond.  He kisses real good.

BAROOO!  Yo, yo, check me out!  Do I look hot or what?! These outfits were compliments of Kiah’s Kloset. I looked so Kool in my prom dress that a couple a boys came and had their taken picture with me.

After we got to try on stuff there was THE parade.  Strut our stuff for all the non-pet parents to see what they are missing. And after the parade one of the pet parents treated us all to a frozen cookie!  Yummy!  I’m drooling just thinkin’ about it.  Mom said she was her hero.  She has 6 dogs in her pack.  (Hmm, from this reporters ‘spective, I think in MY house one more in my pack would be just fine. Can’t spread the love that thin, unless we get a bigger moving house.)

Anyway, I want y’all to sniff in your pet parents ears to take you to fun stuff like this. Maybe get on doggy FaceBook.  Start your own Dash-Hound Dazes, Pit-Picnics, Westie-Festies, Beagle Beach Day, Poodle-Pride, Scotty-Sunday, Terrier-Tuesday, whatever.  I could come up with all kinds a neat ideas.  We need to stand united on this and let our RVing pet parents know that dogs and RVs work really good together, and how easy it is to take us to neato stuff!. I had such fun that I can’t wait to go cover another doggy event. 

Bark at me below to let this pup-reporter know what’s on the pee-mail circuit out there in your campgrounds.

‘Nuff said.  Happy Tails!

Lindsey out.

My Weekly Bark Report this time is for the Scare Me To Death Day, or better known as July 4 Pets Peeved (Do I need to mention that I really do not look forward to this day every year? Makes me really Peeved. How about y’all?)  Mom and Dad call it a July 4 Cell-e-bray-shun and I do my best to shun it.  All that noise!  How can human ears stand it?  For this dog’s ears it could be half as loud and still be too loud.  Bang, bang, boom.  BAROOO!   Oh the joys of having big ears.

So, my furry followers, I hope the rest of you have found a really good hidey hole for that day.  Among my personal favorites is under the bed as far as I can.  It’s hard to get under a bed in our RV. I’d go under the covers if Mom would let me up on the bed.  She has this dumb fear I’ll jump off and hurt myself. Grow up Mom!

I know when something is up when Mom puts on my Thunder Shirt.  It’s either those stupid exploding stars or a rumbling sky.  Does she think, I’m stoopid to not know somethin’s up?  I wasn’t whelped yesterday ya know.  Gees La-Wheez!  She says it hugs me.  Okay, I’ll buy that.  Kinda feels more like a nice body wrap to trim my girlish figure.  (Does this shirt make my butt look big?)

So yo, check out the parade.  All the little peeplez  followed behind Mz Hope’s car.  Kinda looked like a mini sled dog pack.  And note WHO is leading the pack?  Yep, 4 legged and furry.  You go my furry friends!  Dogs rule, mini people drool.  (I stole that line. My bad.)  Mz Hope did let me drive her nifty little car with my friends after the parade.  Or at least I pretended I was driving.  I can’t reach the pedals to really drive. You know that, right?

Then I got to meet a new friend.  Her mom calls her a conversation peez. (??)  I don’t know what that means. Talking and peeing?   I hope it’s not an insult cuz she’s kinda cute.  Maybe cuz she’s not a true blood?  I don’t care.  She told me you just tolerate the little peeplez cuz they usually are good for a quick snack.  Food can be found all over their face and hands.  Sounds good to me! She should know, she lives here in this park.

Sometimes when I pretend being askared I get these neat little bone treats that Mom says will make me sleepy and be less skared.  Sleepy, my skinny bubble butt.  I hear everything, and I mean EVERYTHING!  Even in a woofing, leg moving, nose twitching sleep.  I don’t know what these little bone treats are s’pose to be but they are mighty tasty. If she’s happy, then my job today is finished.

Well, that’s about all I have to Bark about in this week’s report. Remember to always stay close to your pet parents especially when the big Boom Booms happen. Lots of parents forget us when they are looking up at all those noisy falling stars. Fortunately, my parents just watch it on TV. I love my mom and dad! I think I’ll give them a big puppy kiss for taking care of me so good

Until next time, Lindsey out.

PS – I managed to get under the covers anyway . . . . . . ha ha Baroooo!! . . . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

BAROOOO!  Hello again from Lindsey on the Road.  I wuf being a part of the RVCDA, or better known as the RV Camping Dogs of America.  (I just made that up but you can use it.) So for this Weekly Bark Report I want to say I’m soooooo excited to see my fur-friends again here in Middlebury. Don’tcha just love that name? Middle-Bury.  I’m finding all kinds of things to bury here, as Mom frownz……

Since last I wrote we left Nor Car-o-line-a and stopped one night at a rest area.  I guess that’s why we rested over night.  Good name! Next stop on the hit parade of camping was at a Ground in Indy-ana, which mom called Fair, to meet some friends. All I can say is all ground is good to me so I don’t know why she called it fair. Humans.

It was really boring there.  Nothing much for a FRAPping Corgi such as myself to do. I saw alot of camping dogs there that I tried to meet.  They were kinda stuck up. Must have been some sort of camp for RVs cuz they all looked the same, a big box with wheels like we used to have. I guess we didn’t blend.

We got to meet a new fur-kid named Charlie. He was called a Shhhhh-now-Zer. He told me he gets to go to work with his pet parents at someplace called Workamper News when he’s not a camping dog. Talk about a lucky dog..  Hey Von Charlie! You are cute but not my type.  I prefer the foxy looking dudes like Koi (pictured above).  He duz a sploot that sends my nub a-waggin’.  I sure wish I had a tail like he does. Then I could help around the RV dusting floorz.

Speaking of Koi, he, Kiah and Kimball are my palz that live at the campground we are now at. Mom lets me follow them on human Facebook. Their page is called Camping Corgi FRAPping. And check out one of the cool playground signs!

Mz Hope and Mr Nick do a neat-o thing they call Corgi-Palooza in July.  My palz are the campground mascots so I’m really excited to be invited. Mom and dad finally got with the program and brung me here. It’s gonna be sooo much fun to show off to all the RV camping dog SOBz”(Some Other Breedz”. I heard that from Charliez dad.) Stay tuned for an upcoming Bark Report on this event as this camping corgi will be front and center. You go K, K and K! I’m there with y’all for Palooza!  

Side bar my furry followers.  Let your pet parents know that this Friday is take your dog to work day!  I like subtle hints like climbing onto dad’s computer case, sitting on his shoes, chest press in bed and blocking the door are among my personal favorites. The door blocking has produced the best results since I’m a lean, mean corgi machine and can be picked up easily by dad. I’m really not mean just feisty. But it sounded good, yes?

You know I do have one minor complaint to make.  Don’t tell Dad.  He keeps telling me to move out of his way when I’m under the table holding the rug down. Helloooo!  Does he not know the rules here?  Just because we have a moving house doesn’t mean my personal space doesn’t count.  Corgi Rules baby.  After all, who’s the top dog here? Besides that you just never know when someone is going to come along and steal that rug.

Here’s me trying to get on the computer but Dad hid it from me.  Ha, I found it when he was gone, so take that Dad!  You can’t hide things away in this RV cuz I’ll find them!  I am super snooper Corgi!!

As many of you may not know I have been an only fur-baby since my sister went away last year. She wuz a really cool camping corgi. My hero.  I miss her cuz she waz always really brave and helped me guard the RV when mom and dad waz gone.  She’d watch and tell me when to be on guard and when to just chill.  We talked corgi-eze when we didn’t want mom and dad to know what we were talking about.  I don’t know where Maya went so suddenly.  Mom sez she’s camping over the Rainbow Bridge now.  I like rainbows but I’m kinda a-feared of bridges. I wonder what kind of RV she’z camping in? 

Well, it’s that time again to say buh-bye.  I feel a nap coming on.

Lindsey out.  zzzzz

Hey, Lindsey’s mom here. Now that she is sleeping I just want to say that if any of her furry followers out there want to join the RVCDA, please comment below.  I may encourage her to set up a group, as long as it doesn’t go to her head.  

Happy Tails y’all.

Bark Bark, Woof Bark.  Translation: On the Road Again from Lindsey and my Weekly Bark Report.  Mom and Dad says Willie Nelson is our theme song, whatever that means. It’s been tough this past week. They’ve been doing too much playing and not paying enough attention to me. This road thing is supposed to include me.  Otherwise how can I bark about it to all my followers.

We left that Palm-etto place last week to get some beach time.  Not enough as far as this Corgi is concerned.  Fur-kids are allowed on this beach. Cool! Waves scare me, but then most everything does.  I didn’t get to go too much cuz Mom said it was too hot for my little fur feet.  And it was.  I don’t know what a heat dex is but mom said it was 107. Hard to even go leave a pee-mail. Cedar chips work great when you got to go. Cooler than rocks. Plus you can use them as a chewy toy.

We were at a place called Carrabelle Beach.  I did get to sit outside in my favorite place, Mom’s chair.  (She wishes.) I let her share a small portion of it just because.

You know, Corgi rules are what’s mine is mine and what yours is mine, at leat 9/10 of the time. Nobody at this place had those golf car thingies. I love riding in them.  Other places we’ve been to all the people have them and give out handouts for cuteness. (Note, a cute look and some begging always works for humans to fork over treats.) 

Okay so now we pack up and get “On the Road Again, Just can’t wait to get on the Road Again”.  Off to a place in coaster Georgia.  Dad says was our first stop on our way to where his classes will be.  It was a really cool place although I never saw any coasters.  Lots of nice grass to leave pee mail.

Meanwhile Mom gets this brilliant idea that she needs to get the sand out of my feet and fur from the beach. Sure and I end up getting a bath.  Gees! I wish she would stay off all those Corgi Groups on Dogfacebook.  She’s always getting all these dumb ideas.  This time it was Dr. Bonner’s Peppermint and Hemp Soap.  

She seems to think that it’ll keep bugs off me. Let’s talk bugs shall we. Baths, that’s what really bugs me.  She thinks this stuff smells good but to the discriminating Corgi nose, it just stinks. I prefer my own Corgi-esk smell.   I think it does just fine repelling bugs.  

So here we are now in a new place called Nor Caroline-a.  I think there’s a song out there about this place isn’t there? Where are the palm trees? More different trees here.  We were s’pose to have one of Dad’s classes here but it got cancelled so we’re just going to visit some of their friends. They have a farm.  What’s a farm?  Dad says I smell like a farm animal sometimes. I guess it must be a good place.

I can’t wait to see where we go next.  I’m getting a state by state Shed Monster brush wherever we go. Leaving my trail of fur in every state. Just think, my fur will be famous everywhere!! Birds will flock to where we are just so they can make a nest with my fur. Dogs will come to smell my pee-mail.  

Maybe I should do inner-net posting on Dogfacebook like Dad did with his group on humanfacebook. He called it Used RV Purchase Experiences. I could call mine Used Corgi Fur Experiences. Hmmm.  I wonder if any others have thought of that?  Is it just me or am I on to something really big? Maybe start a group on Birdbeakbook.  

This is making me really tired thinking about it.  I think I’m missing out on my daily zzzz’s.  Been up for a couple hours already.  YAWN!!    

Stayed tuned for my next Weekly Bark Report with my new venture On the Road Again.

Lindsey out.

Lindsey’s Mom here!  Please feel free to allow your fur-kids to correspond with Lindsey if you like.  You can leave comments below and we will let Lindsey get back to them.