One or two of you asked that I take a break from our tour, tough!

Travel’s with Charlie…

For you literates - you know of Steinbeck’s story traveling the U.S. with his dog named Charlie. Well, in the following blogs we'll try and follow in his foot steps, the dog that is… This time the Charlie is a Hertz - a young, make that- semi young friend whom we shared a trip to Ecuador with for a special moment.

Charlie has been and is a special friend of our family and our youngest daughter. It was T.L.C. tender loving Charlie that has helped her in rather a rough road. Many of you know of the dark times she faced in 1999. But Charlie’s heart is as big as his smile. For some reason unknown to mankind their friendship has remained steadfast over the years inspite of what's been thrown at them.

Charlie is also a magnet… for some reason he’s like the pipe piper to a very special group of young people from around the country all with a joy of sharing one another’s company. So there was Charlie the officiator' at our friends daughter’s wedding making memories.

It then turned into 6 am the following morning! It was the hour when all the 'kids' finally puled the party plug at the hotel in which most of us were staying. At 2 a.m. I thought they were nuts and by 5 am I knew they were. I must be getting old(er.
But I have to admit I did enjoy the late evening/early morning racket that they all were making. What the heck it was our' kids too enjoying life something that Rosebud and I had prayed not to many years back.

The amazing thing was that 3 hours later Charlie was up sharing breakfast with us. I repeat, tough!