Hudson was rescued by B.O.N.E.S. from a bad situation in Limington, ME. After the gentleman called 911 (and subsequently passed away), the local ACO found 20 dogs living in squalid conditions.
B.O.N.E.S. took most of them and found them new homes. Overall, Hudson was in very good shape but when he had his physical, they found a serious mast cell tumor in his nose. As much as possible was removed.
B.O.N.E.S. wanted to find a wonderful home for Hudson and we did. John is a long-haul trucker that had lost his beagle companion of 13 years. He wanted a new companion. Luckily John found Hudson (or Hudson found John). It was a wonderful match. Hudson reported in regularly, and we share his "Chronicles" on this page.
Hello from Savannah, GA. John and I are waiting to pick up a load on Monday. We delivered Friday afternoon in Savannah but couldn't reload until Monday, so we're here for the weekend. John decided to get a room since it is going to be a hot weekend and he didn't feel like running the truck all weekend for the A.C. I think that's one of his smarter ideas.(He has them every once in a while.)
Things have been pretty busy for us since I last checked in. Since our last trip out west, we have been staying closer to home. First was a quick trip down to Tennessee, and then we reloaded in Kentucky, back to Maine. It was strange to be back home in a week. Then we had two loads of ski lift equipment to take from Massachusetts down to Connecticut. It was the same ski area that we took all the loads to back in the fall, last year, so it was nice to see all the familiar faces.
From there, John had three loads of machinery down in Norfolk, VA to bring up to Ipswich, MA. The loads had to be all out of the piers by a certain date, so John was paid to go empty down to Norfolk, each trip. Those were some long days and short nights because of the schedule. There was a lot of traffic and tolls were expensive. Each trip cost about 100 dollars in tolls. I can see why John doesn't like to run the east coast. It was fun to go across the Chesapeake Bay bridge/tunnel. It is a bridge that has two tunnels built into it. First, you're driving on top of the water, and then, you're going down into a tunnel, under the water. These two tunnels allow the heavy shipping traffic to move into all the harbors and navy bases without any interruptions.
We had to lay over the weekend between our first and second trips, so, John stopped by his friends whcoffeeo have a small trucking company. We have had a lot of good times there, as you might remember from past stories.
I learned about a new summer drink, that might even be better than Beer...iced coffee! That's my new favorite drink! I think I'll talk to Dunkin Donuts about being a spokes person for them. "Hudson runs on Dunkin". If a lizard can do it for an insurance company, why can't a beagle?
The next week, John finished up with the loads out of Virginia, and we headed out for another quick trip to Chicago, where John had some machinery to get for a customer back in Maine. We took a couple of partials out to Ohio, and then loaded a partial in Ohio, and went out to Chicago for the other machinery. It was another quick trip out and back.
We have been trying to get out to Colorado to get a pick up for John's nephew and bring it out to Spokane, WA. Every time we think we are headed out west, John gets a phone call for work, so the pick up gets put on the back burner. we thought we were headed west at the end of the Chicago trip, when the same customer with the machinery in Chicago wanted a load from Savannah.
So off we went, with some machinery that was headed to Sunflower, MS. It was oversize, and we loaded it Friday afternoon, so we couldn't go very far because some states don't allow weekend travel. This worked out well, because John had family in southern Maine that weekend. We were able to visit for the weekend, and see the new house his sister and brother-in-law had built on the beach. I got to visit with Shadow, Toby, and Cloe. We are getting to be like old friends, we can even all eat in the same room together.
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Hudson, the semi-beagle
