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.
Happy fourth of July!
John an I find ourselves in Oregon again for a second fourth of July weekend in a row. Last year we were on the coast, this year we are in Portland, at the world famous Jubitz Truck stop. It is one of the nicest truckstops with plenty of parking, clean facilities, movie theater, restaurant, store, country music and more. The city of Vancouver, WA is just on the other side of the Columbia river, and they put on a great fireworks show that you can see from the truck stop. We will leave on Saturday to go to Logan, UT and pick up a load headed for Auburn, ME.
Prior to this trip, John and I loaded for Virginia, so he could attend another graduation celebration, this time, for his nephew. After a couple of days with relatives HudsonJohn had enough and said it was time to leave. If only it were that easy. John's other sister dumped her 15 year old brat on us for a week. (Those are John's words, not mine) We actually had a good time with Alex. We loaded some trailers in Virginia and took them to Bangor ME. we then spent the weekend plus a couple days in Durham looking for something to load. We found a load heading out west which we loaded and then we dropped Alex off in Virginia on Thursday night. Going through New York City, John and Alex had a good laugh over an overhead sign warning of traffic. They had been in the traffic for 45 minutes already. Those New Yorkers don't miss a thing.
It was nice to have Alex travel with us but it is nice to have the truck to ourselves again.
The trip out took us to Albuquerque, NM, then to Ogden, UT and finally Salem and Portland OR. While traveling through Utah, we came upon a brush fire that had closed highway 89 for a while until the firefighters got the fire under control. A lightning strike caused the fire. After about an hour Hudsonwe were on our way.
We came through some beautiful parts of the country, but I have to be on the alert when I'm out doing my business, lots of poisonous creatures out there. So far, so good.
The weather was quite hot and the air conditioning needs to be recharged. Running down the road it works fine, but at idle, it doesn't do such a good job. Fortunately, we haven't had much idle time, and here in Portland it is cool enough that we don't need it.
That's about all for now.
Hudson
