On the road again - Gustav

We have evacuated to Troy, Alabama.


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Doggie Day Care in Myrtle Beach

On our trip to Myrtle Beach a few weeks ago we took our 11 week old puppy which turned out to be a problem when The Company put us in a hotel that did not allow pets. We could sneak him in over night easy enough but getting him out during the day was difficult as the temperature seemed to climb higher and higher each day we were there. We tried to board him but being so young he did not have his rabies shot and so was not even allowed to walk through the door at most kennels. Finally after much searching we found Canine Command Center. Only a few miles from the hotel off of highway 707 it was a great location and best of all they were willing to take him for doggie daycare considering he was too young to receive his rabies shot they logically did not make it a requirement. You would have thought someone at one of the many kennels and boarding facilities I talked to previously would have figured this out but the nice people at Canine Command Center were the only ones willing to work with us. We dropped our little pug puppy off with them everyday around 8:30 am and picked him up just before 6:00pm when they closed. He played and had a wonderful time. By the end of the first week he was running into the building to say "hi" to the staff, we could tell he really enjoyed his time in doggie daycare.
I had heard of doggie daycare programs before we placed our puppy in the one at the Canine Command Center but it always seemed like they were trying to reach out to people going to work or school all day who left their animals home alone. This never made much sense to me for multiple reasons but a big one is the cost as an everyday expense, when your animal could be happily lounging in his own home but in a situation like we were in doggie daycare turned out to be a Godsend. This experience opened up a whole new world of places to travel with our pet. I encourage anyone and everyone to look into doggie daycare when traveling with your pets. Many kennels offer some type of animal daycare program. If you are ever in the Myrtle Beach area checkout Canine Command Center, they have a great facility full of friendly people and lovable animals. Two thumbs up, way up.

Hanging in Florida and Fay

So on a complete spur of the moment decision I packed up the car, the baby and the dog once again and headed to Florida. My family is in Fl. and that is where I was born and raised, also where we used to live before moving to New Orleans. When Scott got called away on business I figured we would go for another little trip. At the time I made that decision I did not know there was a hurricane coming for the state but I do not think I would have changed my mind since it is only expected to be a Category 1 when it makes landfall. A Category 1 is nothing to mess with but when you have lived in hurricane prone areas all your life you learn what is doable and what is not, and a Cat 1 is totally doable. We have locked down everything that can fly away and now we are just waiting. I love storms. Really I love all parts of a storm, the part we are in now is the foreboding part. The sky is completely overcast giving everything a grey tint, it is just starting to mist outside, not full on rain just yet and everything is perfectly still. No wind, No birds, No bugs, nothing. You can actually feel the world preparing for the storm. Nature Knows.

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The Road Home.

Our trip home. We are taking lots of pictures and videos which I will post here and We will have enough video to start up our podcast when we get back home so look out for that too.




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Driving to Kentucky

As I mentioned before we will be driving to my family reunion in Kentucky. We dicided to leave a day early to give us some extra time to get there since it turns out it will just be me , the baby and the dog driving over. Here is the map of our journey I will not be able to update while I am there since I will not have a computer but will update you all as soon as I get back to the house on Monday.




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one thing not to do in Myrtle Beach

Ok we just discovered one thing not to do in Myrtle Beach. Go to the Children's Museum. I do not know the situation that puts the Myrtle Beach Children's Museum in a strip mall next to Office Depot but I do know that the items they have inside are not worth paying the $7 per person charge to get in to see them. We come form a big city, New Orleans with a really great children's museum which is one of the few children's museums I have ever been to and definitely the only one I have been to repeatedly so I fully admit that I am not an expert on museums for the kiddies but I do know one thing very well. We pay $7.00 to see three floors of play area in New Orleans with a separate toddler room and here in Myrtle Beach we paid the same price for three rooms, no separated toddler area, old equipment and a bunch of sandboxes which although enjoyed by kids are a breading ground for germs especially when you have a bunch of kids playing in the same sand all day.

Now lets move on to the good stuff. Although I do not recommend spending your hard earned dollars at the Myrtle Beach Children's Museum just yet I do want to tell you to keep your eye on them. The Museum has a new facility in development and from the sketches I saw it looks like the new place will definitely be something you will want to check out. Before you go check out their website here.

I hate to tell people not to visit local museums but on this one I would wait for the new facility to be built and if you live in Myrtle Beach then by all means get out there and donate funds or time or whatever you have available to make your local children's museum all it can be.

Stayin' at the Hampton Inn

So we have been staying at the Hampton Inn on 75th Avenue here in Myrtle Beach. It is a nice location. We are just two blocks from the beach, great walking distance. I like being off the beach when staying in a town like Myrtle Beach, there is too much crazy tourist foot traffic when you are right on the beach. On top of that when you are on the beach the extra sand that gets into your things is hard to manage sometimes. Also, we are a couple miles out of the really touristy area which I also like. We are close enough to have anything we might need but not so close that we are over run by crazies. My might notice I think of your run of the mill do everything brochure tells me tourist as a "crazy tourist" by crazy I mean they do everything they do at home (yell at the traffic, shop at the mall) but because they are in a new location they expect a different outcome. This is more like insane but I like the way the word crazy rolls trippingly off the tongue.