A Week with the Chadwicks

part 1

I left Colorado today in the company of the former captain, El Jefe, and his woman on our way to the west coast (wherever that is). Apparently we're going to travel for two days to a city salled Seattle. The Captain's Woman is going to study there for four years so she can become Doctor Chadwick. I still don't understand the fascination these humans have with titles. Anyway, it should be a fun trip and Dave and Kim have promised to take pictures of me.

We stopped today in Idaho to get dinner at something called "A&W Dinner". I got to try draft root beer and got my picture taken with the draft tap and on the old fashioned jukebox. Except for El Jefe being burned, this hasn't been too bad a drive. I wish I didn't have to spend so much time in the backpack, but there's no room in the car anywhere else.

Stormy

A Week with the Chadwicks

part 2

Today is the last part of my journey to Seattle. I passed through Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Oregon on my way to Washington. We stopped on the way in Oregon and I got to stop at a scenic overlook. As far as I could tell, there wasn't much to see, but I did get to pose for pictures again. I really wanted to go to Canada, but Kim and Dave didn't have time.

Seattle is nice, with lots of big mountains that I bet would be fun to sun on. Kim also has a nice cave right next to an "airport" (that has something to do with humans flying -- wouldn't that be a funny site?) I'll be heading back to Colorado soon with El Jefe. I'm really looking forward to coming out here again sometime and seeing things like the Space Needle and Mount Ranier.

Stormy

A Week with the Chadwicks

part 3

After El Jefe helped his woman set up housekeeping, we went back home to Colorado. El Jefe decided to drive as much as he could, taking catnaps along the way like Sandy, the White-Bellied Cat.

Somewhere in Oregon we came around a bend in the road and saw a big circle of fire in the distance. At the time we did not know how close to the road it was. As we got closer, we thought it'd be a good place to take pictures, but as we got closer still, we realized just how near to the road the fire really was! About that time two or three state patrols cars zipped by with their lights on. As we continued to get closer to the fire, we noticed it was right along the road with six foot high flames. We decided this wasn't a good place for a photo opportunity. As we passed by the fire, the state patrol was setting up road blocks -- they were actually taking the barriers out of their cars -- and one looked at El Jefe as we drove by with an expression that said "you're the last car, buddy!". We went around the next bend and never saw the fire again.

The rest of the trip wasn't exciting at all. The road was light, the road was dark, the road was light again, then I was at El Jefe's home. On Monday he took me to work with him so I could help out there!

Stormy

Stormy on an old A&W jukebox.		Stormy waiting for his root beer.
Stormy with El Jefe.		Stormy with the Captain's Woman.