Mea'Ola's Meanderings

We've been home a week now and mom decided that we needed to meet her friend Marian for another sunrise walk on the beach. We get up real early for these walks in the middle of the summer. Today mom got me up at 4:00 am as we need to be in the car by 5:15 and she wants me to have a potty walk and eat breakfast. It is still a little dark when we arrive at the beach at 6:00 am. Mom loves the sunrises where there are sunbeams across the sky.  A little while later the sun came up over the ocean. This was the start of a very hot day.  Of course I posed for mom, I'm getting good at this. I was glad that she had her Camelbak thing because I was thirsty. Since it was so warm, even at this early time, we didn't stay as long as last time.  Like the first time, we saw more sea turtle tracks. Mom wasn't sure this one had laid any eggs as there was no telltale mound. Mom saw this nest staked out way up by the stairs to this house. She said ...

Well, here I go again. We had just gotten home from the Alabama road trip when mom told me we were heading down near Fort Lauderdale to spend the Fourth of July with her daughter's family,,,seriously?? Another road trip? Mom wasn't joking. We got home on Sunday the 28th and were back in the car and on the road on Thursday the 2nd.  Mom likes this overpass, it has old train outlines on it and it also means mom is close to the exit for the Florida Turnpike and we're closer to her daughter's house.  Mom's daughter has a dog, a puggle to be exact, Ruby. When we first met, Ruby started snarling and growling right off the bat. Her mom told her to go to bed, I was polite and stayed quiet. Then Ruby came running up on me all nasty and snarling and growling again so I told her off. Not a good thing to do. My mom was afraid Ruby and I might have an argument. It was decided that Ruby and I would need to be kept separated all weekend. Mom put me in the room ...

Here is Part Two of my Alabama Road Trip with mom and her friend Savannah.  The day after all my hiking in the first part of the trip, mom decided to leave me at the house. They were heading to a state park over in north Georgia, about 50 minutes away and were hoping to stop at some antique places along the way. Mom said it would be way to hot for me to wait in the car. I didn't mind staying home, I slept all day.  Anyway, it is now our third and final day in Alabama and we're off hiking again. After a lot of discussion the night before over cocktails on the back deck it was decided we would all go back to DeSoto Falls State Park because it was close and there were more waterfalls we could see.  We hit the trails early in the day due to the chance of afternoon thunderstorms. These trails were not as well used as the others ones we had hiked. It didn't take too long to reach Lodge Falls.  Like the waterfalls in the previous post, these weren't ru...

Hi everyone, it's Mea'Ola again. We recently got back from a long weekend road trip to Alabama for mom's birthday. One of her very good friends joined us and we had a fun time.  It was my longest car ride ever, 7-1/2 hours, plus a detour and some additional time for getting lost because Google Maps forgot to include a jog in the road. We even stopped to ask a man for directions and he admitted that the road numbers made no sense. Anyway, we left early on the morning of June 24th and met up with mom's friend Savannah at a gas station. Once we had Savannah's stuff in the car and introductions were made we hit the road.  Mom and Savannah were really happy to see this sign because it meant we were almost to the house,,,,then we got lost and spent an hour driving around until mom finally got a cell signal and was able to get the house address into her phone.   This was one of the roads we traveled down trying to find the house. It sure is pretty he...