Traveling The World with my humans

Around noon my humans got a call from Pete's Autoclinic that they made a test drive and uphill was not an issue any more. My humans told me that it turned that the problem was a combination of several things. Now they changed a couple of parts and it works. They even made my humans a great price for this. My humans are sure there not many car repair garages that would have done this, working a couple of days on the van and even come in on the weekend. My humans and I can't thank them enough. Listen everybody in PAHRUMP, NV - if you have an issue with your car or just need a maintenance or oil change, go to Pete's Autoclinic- the very best garage in the county. After picking up the van my humans got ready to leave for Canada. At first my humans were a little sceptical but the van ran up the hill as if there hasn’t been a problem ever before. We drove towards Las Vegas and on I15 North. We drove through Arizona and into Utah. In Cedar City my humans looked for a W

My humans slept in and so did I. They knew the part from Las Vegas would not be delivered before 8 am and it would take a while to put it in and make a test drive. After 1pm my mistress called to find out that they got stuck while they made the test drive and that they did not put the fuel pump in to save my humans money. Now they had to wait till the truck was towed back. They sent the fuel pump back as they were positive they would not need it. Well, all this wasn't too bad for me as I could relax in the sun and play outside and tease the neighbor’s dogs. I love teasing them. When I go out in the backyard I go close to the fence to their property. And they come running and barking and fighting with each other. Meanwhile I pee and mark my territory in their direction. I just ignore them and walk to the other side of the property. They try to follow me but they can’t as there is a fence where their property ends. Oops, sorry, where was I!? Ah yes, the fuel pump needed to b

My humans got up early to bring the van to the garage. They made a test drive and said that they would put in a new fuel pump. After asking my humans a couple more questions they had another idea what it might be and they started ordering parts. All these parts needed to be brought in from Las Vegas. This takes a while. My humans and I went to Walmart to get some stuff We waited all day long at that garage for that car to get finished. Later we went to Sonic to get something to eat. Thursday afternoon all these people that drive Oldtimers meet at Sonic and they were all there when we arrived. One man from the next table came over to us to pet me and talk to my humans. When we returned to the garage they told us that they were still waiting for one part as the one they ordered before did not work. Alex, that nice guy, drove us to our friend’s house where we spent the night. As the van was in the garage my humans and I slept in „our“ room again.

Yesterday evening my humans started to pack. I mean really pack, like everything. This morning they had an appointment at the bank to talk about a business account. What ever business and account means, it was boring. After we arrived back home they started loading everything in the van. Wait a minute what does that mean? Leaving the desert and going to Canada? I kind of like that idea. Although I will miss everybody here badly. At about 2pm we said goodbye and left. You must know that going from Pahrump to Las Vegas you have to go over a pass, a high one. Well my humans went towards Highway 160, turned onto it and …. the van behaved weird. It could not drive uphill. My mistress went off the highway the next possibility, turned around and went downhill. Everything was fine. They tried again to drive uphill and no luck with that. So my humans decided to go back to Pete’s Autoclinic. They checked, made a test drive and decided that the problem would probably be the air filte

My humans are out of their mind! They seriously building a bed in the van for them selves and I am supposed to sleep on one of the benches. IN THE VAN! I deserve better than that, don’t you agree? This van is really big and there is plenty of room in the back so my humans decided to sleep in the van. But there is not enough room for me on that bed and so they prepared my seat as a bed. I am not sure weather I should like that or not. I do have a window to the right and to the left and I do have enough room to stretch out my legs but only the idea to have to sleep in the van is weird. I don’t like it. I prefer to sleep in bed with my humans although they don’t really like me to do so. I just sneak in during the night. See for yourself how my bed looks like. Do you think this is comfortable? And there is no vent, no a/c, nothing. It will be hot during the night. Sometimes I just can’t understand my humans. Why would you do something like that? At least we will stay one night a

I think I never told you about my friend Cameron. He is a young boy, our friend Ken’s grandson. He is a nice guy; he plays with me and cuddles with me. Sometimes he does not let me sleep when I am tired but he does not speak my body language. He knows the basics but he just does not have the experience with dogs because they don’t have a dog. If they would have a dog he would easily learn dog body language. Cameron is very sensitive and he can feel when people or animals don’t feel good. When he found a mouse that was poisoned with the rat poison he took care of it because he felt so sorry for it. When he accidently hurt one of the pet rats of his sister he cried and made sure it will be ok. He is a smart little guy and he understands more than other kids his age. He might not be perfect in understanding dog body language but he is very good in talking his own language. The way he talks is rather the way an adult would talk. He likes reading that might be the reason for it. He e

The last couple of days my humans took the van to the garage. They said the van needed to be checked if it is good to go to Canada. Is this something like a vet? First they went to the local Dodge dealer, as the van is a dodge. Is dodge something like a breed? I am Australian Shepherd/Golden Retriever but there is no vet just for my mixture of breed. My mistress told me that Dodge is the manufacturer of the car. Well, I am not manufactured, I am all natural. At that garage we had to wait quite a while. They said they would change the oil in the car and check a couple of things. This took a loooooong time. At least there was air conditioning in the room. That customer agent that took care of my humans did not recognize my humans or me. We just have been there 2 days ago to make an appointment. How can you not recognize me? I am very disappointed. Normally people recognize me because my fur is very unique. After almost two hours they were done with looking at the van. Zack, the c