BevLive: Welcome to Walmart

I took early retirement this spring so I could spend more time traveling around North America visiting my friends and running dogs. I think it was one of my most brilliant decisions yet. Time will tell what my friends think.

This trip started with Amanda's hospitality and I'm now headed to South Dakota for quick visit with Bud and Sarah Boudreau before heading up to Pat and Stormy Winter's place in Saskatchua for a longer visit and some more dog work. Once we are (I hope) all prepped, it's off to the EID trial of Ian and Joann Zoerb's in Alberta. I have never been to western Canada and I'm really looking forward to new trials.

Wandered around Amanda's this morning after she went to work, poor dear, admiring all her beautiful fields and gardens. The place is a real showcase. Worked all my dogs on about a dozen of her ewes and lambs in a field I had never been in before. Esther really looks good, if I do say so myself. Big question is if she can handle the western sheep and if I will be able to stop her. We'll see soon enough.

Hemp, Mirk, and Esther

Pulled the camper out on the road around 10:30 and headed west. Made pretty good time. Brief slow down in Toronto for rain and traffic. Endless one-hour wait to cross the border into Michigan.  They wanted to search the camper. So they look inside and never bother to look in the storage compartments which are big enough to hold an army. Go figure.

Attention, Walmart shoppers!

Stopped for the night at a great Walmart. Lovely big fenced in area at the back for dog walking. So kind of them to build all these combination shopping center campgrounds for me. Replenished my food stocks and made an early stop at 8:00.