– London, England to Carlisle, England – Our first day in the countryside was lovely, if a bit longer than we expected. Our map told us the drive would be about 5 hours, but we still left just after 9:30am and didn’t make it to our hotel until after 7:30, including our dinner. We seem…
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– London, England – We got to run again today. I’m so easy to please. I think that makes Mark really happy. Who doesn’t want a wife that’s easy to please, right? Just a little exercise and I’m happy as a clam. I almost used “pig in mud,” but it sounded a little southern. I…
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– London, England – Today was our first real day in London, and we will not be here for long. Mark has to work today, as I mentioned yesterday, so for a good portion of the day, I was on my own. We don’t usually have room to bring running things on international trips, but…
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– Denton, Texas to London, England – “Oh look,” you’re thinking. “Another international trip. They even took an airplane. That means no Ripley. Will this even be interesting without the star of the show?” Well, Little Ripley is staying with her Grandma and Grandpa (and their two dogs Sabre and Django) back home in Texas….
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– Champaign, Illinois to Beggs, Oklahoma – I didn’t get to run this morning, which makes me so very sad. I think we would’ve had the time, but hindsight is 20/20, and we were worried about getting back to Oklahoma early enough for the air conditioner to cool the house back down to a temperature…
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– London, Ontario to Champaign, Illinois – Mark, Ripley and I started our morning with a run from Thames Park here in London along the Thames River. It’s funny how all of that sounds, isn’t it? We were in Ontario, of course, but given the names, you’d assume somewhere else, right? I wonder what possessed…
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– Blind River, Ontario to London, Ontario – Oh, how I’ve missed Tim Hortons. I’m not sure what it so special about it, but it really makes my day. We started out this morning at 5am, and we drove quite a ways over to the spot where we thought we might run. It turned out…
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– Houghton, Michigan to Blind River, Ontario – Well, I’ve got my baby back. We got up at 6am, with plans to get her by 7:30, as soon as the kennel opened. We were supposed to have time to run today, but since we were down a member of our crew, we had to scrap that…
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– Houghton, Michigan to Isle Royale National Park– I’m really missing Ripley. We didn’t get her back today due to a scheduling error, and now I feel even more guilty and sad. She hated it in that kennel, but we didn’t make it back to this part of Michigan in time for us to pick…
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– International Falls, Minnesota to Houghton, Michigan – We had to do some backtracking today, which you might recognize as being terribly boring. The day began with a 5am wakeup call and a run along the main road from International Falls down to the small town of Ranier, where we stopped in front of the…
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