LA Trip - Los Angles, CA

While we went down to LA to see Susan (Boots’ daughter), Karma went to the kennel for 2 nights. This is the same place that she does her daycare, so she knows the staff and a lot of the dogs. It’s just easier fi we don’t have to ensure the hotel/motel will take dogs and the temperatures allow for her to stay in the truck when we are at locations that don’t allow dogs – restaurants, facilities, etc. We came to get her she was not very pleased to see us and when we got home she was all over the place – scratching and barking. In general, saying F@#$ YOU for leaving me for 2 nights.

Here’s our translation of her behavior – “Whew, they finally came to get me!!! I could have gone with but NOOOO I HAD TO GO TO A SLEEPOVER! Really, I mean I like Taylor and all the dogs but there aren't Dunes, tennis balls and sleep number beds!! Can you imagine, I had to sleep on my bed mat both nights – ugh! What were they thinking???”

Interstate 405 is a nightmare in LA - 5-6-7 lanes all speeding your direction at 65mph. Every so often there is construction which is supposed to slow everyone down to 55mph but doesn't. Then there are the "crawls": everyone is going 40mph or less and cars are zipping from lane to lane to gain a mere inch on another driver. Going down (South) we weren't sure about how/where we should get off but going North, we were able to get into the FAR left lane (HOV - High Occupancy Vehicles - commuters with 2 or more people). Since we weren't towing and had 2, we drove almost the whole distance in that lane. The biggest advantage is that you only have to worry about 1 lane to the right and those idiots merging onto the highway are someone else's problem.

Ruthi drives the city roads and Boots drives the mountain lanes. Ruthi was really enjoying it, while Boots was nervous in the passenger's seat!