June 19-July 3rd, 2022             This year we couldn’t take the Bus to see Dad for his birthday, so I flew up to spend some time in  Ashland with Dad and Paula and Tucker the Wonderful Dog. It was cold and just past rainy when I arrived, and thunderstorms the night before I left, but…

June 6, 2022 June 6, 2022 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 To every thing there is a season,and a time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break…

October 2-3, 2021 So, Saturday was not supposed to be a good day. We had to get up, walk the dog, and then we had to head to Bellflower to help our dear dog sitter move to Bakersfield. I was worried about the move, the weather (Hot!), would the movers show up on time and…

June-July 21, 2021 Part 1: Helen             I think it was 1998 when I first met Helen Wilson, my father’s artist friend, but I have thought of her often since then. I was in Oregon in a soggy spring, getting ready to travel on a cross country road trip, and Dad wanted me to “go…

July 23, 2021 Today I was walking in Ashland while visiting my father, and I saw the Ashland Daily Tidings on someone’s driveway, and there was a story about the bus. Allayana Darrow, a great reporter from the Tidings, interviewed us about the Bus and our story, and her article was on the front page…

Tonight on Dogs Reading Books, we are happy to feature Harold the Puppymonster reading Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer –you should read this book, and many thanks to Lollie for my copy. We made it home! Thanks also to Nancy and Jimmy, Puppersitters and Tortoise and plant and aquatic turtle caregivers; thanks to Jonathan…

Part 2: SLO, San Simeon, and Morro Bay Have you driven Highway One from Pacific Grove to San Simeon? If so, congratulations! You survived. If not, well, it is a twisty road, and it is a high road—think airplane high, above the clouds at times, and think sheer drops to rocks and the sea impossibly…

Part 1: Steinbeck Country Let’s start with a caveat: the trip is not going as planned. I am sitting in a motel in San Simeon typing this with the sun setting behind me. I have some older territory to cover (like Steinbeck Country), and then I will tell the harrowing saga of Highway 1, the…

Mendocino day was full of capitalism: visiting my favorite bookstore, Gallery Books, and the Science Store (present for Jimmy), and the toy store, where Robert bought a Play Mobil Bus with hippie action figures. We walked the bluffs, sat in the Big Chair, ate lunch by Big River (cute Chihuahua running on the beach), then…

Ashland to Del Norte Del Norte to Richardson Grove Richardson Grove to MacKerricher (Mendocino) We haven’t had a charged computer or Wi Fi, so there has been a lag in reporting—we need a leisure battery! And I will add pictures to the previous post, too, now that I have access to electricity and the internet…