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.
Greetings from Durham. We just got home from 5 weeks on the road. Things have been busy and now it's time for some home time with the usual stuff to be done while home. Quite often, it is nice to get back on the road and slow down a little.
We started out with a quick trip down south to Arkansas with an oversize tank. Along the way John picked up some custom barn doors from one of his customers in Massachusetts. They were going to Georgia. After unloading those two items, we headed to Knoxville to pick up a piece of machinery heading back to New Hampshire. We were lucky enough to be about six hours ahead of the second snow storm that crippled the east coast.
After we unloaded in New Hampshire, we picked up a truck tractor in Mass to bring home for a friend here in town. John then dropped the trailer and off we went to Vermont to hook on to the trailer we brought from Utah a month earlier. The snowboard tour was over and time for everything to go back to Utah. John had kept in touch with the broker and was able to get one of the trailers. We had some bad weather on the way out and I-80 was closed in Iowa and Nebraska, so we had to wait a day for things to be cleaned up. There were still a few slick spots the next day, and an eastbound SUV lost control and crossed the Median right in front of us. Luckily, it stopped before it came up on the westbound lanes. After that, the weather and roads improved and we had an uneventful ride to Salt Lake City. From there, things got interesting.
John found a trailer-mounted generator going to Tacoma, WA out of the ports in LA, that was paying quite well. After he booked the load he saw that there were also some units heading back east. John called the broker the next morning to see if he could get one of these instead and he broker gave him one of each. this doesn't happen very often, so we thought we were pretty lucky. John was able to book a new trailer in Salt lake that needed to be taken down to Fontana, CA. He was saying how things were falling into place and going much too well. Boy was he right! He hooked on the brand new trailer and realized that he had about 2 inches of clearance between the back of his tarp rack and the front of the reefer unit on the trailer. After a tense trip down into LA we made it to the exit where we had to deliver the trailer without incident. Traffic was backed up on the ramp and after John stopped he felt a bump and when he looked in his mirror, he saw a car and a truck veer off into the shoulder. These two vehicles couldn't get stopped in time and hit the brand new trailer as well as each other. Fortunately, nobody was injured and the bulk of the damage was to the car and there was only a small scratch on the bumper of the trailer. When they checked the trailer in, they didn't show any concern over the scratch.
After that excitement, we spent the rest of the day on the phone between the broker and the port trying to get the generators released. There were some storage charges to be payed. Finally, about 3 pm, the generators were released so we headed to Long beach, right in the middle of Friday afternoon rush hour. We made it there with about 15 minutes to spare, got our trailer and fought the rush hour traffic again to head north. The second bunch of traffic didn't seem as stressful, since we weren't racing the clock.
It was a spectacular trip up I-5 towards Tacoma. Spring was in full bloom with lots of green grass and flowering buds on the trees. We had a beautiful sunset over Shasta lake in northern California, and then we were able to se all three snow covered peaks of Mt Hood, St He lens, and Rainier at the same time. John tried to get some pictures with his phone since his camera is broken. The pictures didn't do the view justice.
We made it to Tacoma on Sunday and dropped the trailer off Monday morning and headed back to LA to get our second trailer. The broker called John on Tuesday when we were in Northern California and told John hat he had taken the wrong trailer up to Tacoma! He had hooked up to the wrong trailer in the rush to get out of the port without delaying the people waiting for him. Fortunately, the trailer he took up by mistake was the one that we had to take Maryland. All we had to do was hook on to the right trailer, take it back up to Tacoma, hook on to the other trailer, and head to Laurel MD. When we arrived Wednesday morning, the trailer wasn't there, after some phone calls, the trailer was found to be half way across Arizona, headed for Baltimore. I guess truckers have troubles with numbers, because someone else had hooked on to the wrong trailer. I guess that's why truckers drive trucks instead of, say, work in banks. But wait, maybe there are truckers working in banking and that's what the problem with the economy. well, let's leave that for another time. Anyway, the next morning, our trailer arrived and we made our second rip up to Tacoma. Fortunately, this trip went well, we swapped trailers and had an uneventful trip to Laurel MD.
John's birthday was during our trip to Maryland and he got a phone call from his mother wishing him a happy birthday, she told him that she was having a party with her friends and his sister who was visiting. I guess I don't understand all of your habits, but it seems to me that if you have a birthday party, shouldn't the person whose birthday you are celebrating be present? I have been giving this some serious thought. I am beginning to wonder if there is something wrong with John. First of all, he babysits his friends kids in New Years, while they go out and party. Now his own mother has a birthday party without him. Makes you wonder doesn't it. Well it hasn't gotten to the point where people on the street run away screaming, so I'll stick around.
Well, that about covers it for now.
Hudson, the semi-beagle
