April 14, Leeds, Utah

If you’re wondering why I didn’t post yesterday, I have a good excuse; there was nothing to report. Yeah, Don took me to the park again and we had a really nice walk, but nothing unusual happened. Don went looking for an Italian deli that sold something called Pepperoni Bread, but didn’t find one. He got new tires for the truck. They had leftover pizza for dinner. All very exciting (NOT!).

Today was much more reportable. Don took me to the park again, and we explored a different part of it from where we have previously gone. There was a building with a big open door, which is hard for me to resist, so I went in to see what was there. Two men were inside, one sitting at a desk, and he invited me in! So, of course, I ran in and got lots of petting and adulation from both of them. Don finally told me that I had to leave, and I was so excited that I ran out the door and went running off down through the park. I ran quite a ways, when I looked up and saw a smaller black dog – running headon toward me! I screeched to a halt, turned around, and started running back toward Don. I knew that the little dog was right behind me, so I breezed right past Don and went into a crazy dog routine to throw the little guy off. Surprise! My pursuer started doing crazy dog too, running in front and in back of me, sometimes almost colliding. I remembered that this was called “playing”, and it was kind of fun, but exhausting. I finally stopped, and we went snout to snout, and checked each other’s identity thoroughly. Turned out it was a lady dog, seven years old, and a very pleasant individual. Well, that was fun.

When we got back to the coach, I found out that we were leaving Las Vegas this morning, as Don started preparing the rig to get underway. We got going a little before noon, and headed up highway 15 toward Utah. We went through the Virgin River Gorge, which is very spectacular; Geri took some pictures, which we might post on the blog. We finally stopped in a little village called Leeds, which is very small but has a good RV Park, at least according to Don’s research. We got placed in a good-sized pull-through site, and Don was very pleased with the utilities for hooking up. Geri took me out for a walk to the doggy area, which had some nice grass. On the way back to the rig, and older lady sitting on the porch of her trailer called us over, and wanted to visit with us. Turned out she had a long, sad story which seemed as though it would go on forever. Geri had to excuse us finally, and we went back to the rig to warn Don not to go past her trailer whenever he took me to the doggy area.

Don cooked a very nice chicken and rice dish for dinner, resulting in some splendid plates and pots. Geri took me out for another walk, and we met some people who thought that I was just a wonderful dog. Obviously people of good taste. They had stayed here through the winter and had froze their tails off. I could see that their tails were missing. Don says there’s a lot to see and do here, so we’ll get started tomorrow. I’ll give you a full report.