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May 29, 2019 – A surprise brings back memories

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Today my humans decided to return to a place we used to go before we left Germany, where they usually walked me. As soon as we drove through the part of Frankfurt where we used to live I knew where we were and got all excited. I thought we might just drive through there; we passed the house where we used to live when my humans first got me. Everything looked so familiar, nothing had changed. Can you believe it; they went for a walk with me right where we used to go before we went to the USA and Canada. There are different crops on the fields now but everything else just remained the same. I knew exactly where I was and where I had to go and where to stop and wait for my humans. That was so – WOW. I can’t believe I am back here again. Just for a visit, but back. My humans enjoyed it too; they talked a lot about old times and what we used to do. Amy, the dog that stayed with us when her mistress was on duty as a flight attendant, and I had a lot of fun here. I remember once we chased a f

May 28, 2019 – Green stuff, no Green Sauce

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I have to tell you about this, my humans are crazy. Today they had something for dinner called “Gruene Sauce” in English Green Gravy. At first when my mistress started to prepare that I thought she is preparing a meal for a horse or a cow. Everything was stuff you can find on a lawn. But when she started washing, cutting and blending it I wondered which horse or cow would eat it like that. Before I continue let me tell you the ingredients: parsley, chive, chervil, cress, burnet, sorrel and borage. After it was in the blender it looked like mush and my mistress added yoghurt, mustard, hardboiled eggs, pepper and salt. I am fine with the eggs and the yoghurt but all the other stuff – NO THANK YOU! I think this was the first time I did not want to have some of my human’s food. They had it together with potatoes in the skin. You should have heard them; they were like in seventh heaven and liked it so much. They could tell by my face that I thought that’s disgusting. So they tried to expl

May 23, 2019 – Hello Germany

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After we landed in Frankfurt, picked up all our suitcases we were picked up by Peter’s mom. My mistress and I did not fit in the car and so my master went with his mom and came back to pick us up. My humans were very tired; they couldn’t sleep on the airplane although it was dark and somehow in the middle of the night, well at least in Germany, not for us. I was the only one that had a lot of sleep in the airplane, might have been because I had room to lie down and stretch my legs. Karin made something to eat for my humans. They call it Spargel (white asparagus) but I didn’t like the smell of it but I did like the smell of the ham and Schinken that was served with it. As usual I didn’t get anything to eat from the good stuff. Instead my humans bought some dog food at the groceries, I didn’t like it too much and it made me, excuse my language, fart a lot. Somehow the faces of my humans always turned green when I did that, I didn’t thing it was that bad. My humans decided to stay aw

May 22/23, 2019 – Leaving Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States of America

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All good things come to an end sooner or later. Yesterday my humans had an appointment at the IRS to apply for the ITIN. Don’t ask me what the IRS means or an ITIN. Of what I heard most of the people here hate the IRS and don’t like going there but I did not have the feeling my humans did not want to go there. They were even happy when we left the building. They tried to explain to me what the ITIN is but I did not understand, just that getting this would be important to be able to go back to the USA and be able to live and work here. In this case I am all for getting this thing. After being at the IRS my humans continued packing all our stuff. Some of it is already at Ken’s house as we don’t need it for now and worst case it could be send via cargo. But there is so much more left that needs to be taken to Germany. Some other things will be donated to whoever wants or needs it in the apartment building and if nobody wants it, it will be tossed. My mistress spent hours to pack that on

May 20, 2019 – Germany? Airplane? Packing? And another balloon jam

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Yesterday my humans started packing suitcases and a big box. I got a little nervous and my mistress noticed. She saw that I was restless and confused about what they were doing and told me that we have to leave the country and go back to Germany because that’s what border control told us when we came into the USA in February. She also told me that my master and she prepared as much as they would to apply for an Investment Visa while we are in Germany and hopefully get it to be able to come back for good. Honestly, I do not see the sense in all that. Why can’t we just live where we want to and where we like it? I like it here and I don’t want to go back to Germany. Most of all I don’t want to fly in an airplane again. Ok, the last flight wasn’t too bad because I could be with my mistress. She assured me it will be the same again this time, I can come with her in the cabin and lie in front of her seat. I think I am fine with that, although, it is a very long flight. I told my mistress

May 3, 2019 – Rainforest Café never gets boring

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In a couple of days is my human’s wedding anniversary and Mothers Day. My humans decided to celebrate that early because they try to sell the car. Why would they want to sell the car? It’s so convenient to have the car; they can drive me to the dog park. Well, whatever – they said they would celebrate this today and go out for dinner. Last time we’ve been at the Rainforest Café the food was very good and they liked it there. So they reserved a table for that evening. I like the Rainforest Café, there is so much to see and hear besides all the good smells from the food. My humans parked at Planet Hollywood as the parking is free and it’s close to the Rainforest Café. Walking through Planet Hollywood is fun, as long as you don’t walk through the area where they are gambling. When we arrived at the Rainforest Café we were guided to our table, a big round table in a booth. Behind my mistress was a huge Gorilla. No worries – not a real one although you could think so. He was talking (i

May 2, 2019 – Province of Ontario, where the Great Lakes are and millions of mosquitos and black flies.

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Earlier this year I promised you to blog about all the states we drove through on our way from Port Hope, ON Canada to Pahrump, NV USA. I will blog in exactly the order we traveled. We left the province on Ontario. Ontario is a province in east-central Canada that borders the U.S. and the Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario). Canada’s capital is Ottawa in Ontario. I have been to Ottawa when we paddled with the West Wind Brigade in 2017. On the Rideau Canal was the first time I was in a canoe that’s why I remember that so well. It also was the first time I met Native People on Victoria Island. “The province is named after Lake Ontario, a term thought to be derived from Ontarí:io, a Huron (Wyandot) word meaning "great lake", or possibly skanadario, which means "beautiful water" in the Iroquoian languages. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes.” Ontario has large areas of uplands, the highest point is Ishpatin