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* * * COUNTDOWN: 20 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * All right, I think it’s about time I admit it. My annual September road trip across America with Ricky the Beagle is no longer about driving the beloved family dog out to see our poor homesick boy in far-away California. Oh, sure, it started Read More
* * * COUNTDOWN: 24 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Meet “Hank.” Hank’s a French bulldog, and he’s Beagle Man’s latest friend. The B-Man is always inordinately fascinated when he runs into another creature named Hank. They met in front of Jack’s Coffee in Amagansett, and the way B-Man was oohing and ahhing over Read More
* * * COUNTDOWN: 31 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Okay, it may not be as awesome as Beagle Man’s Dog Bark Park Inn, but here’s the place I really want to go. Which probably means we won’t. Sure, I get to write whatever I want in the Roof Rack Report — but the Read More
* * * COUNTDOWN: 35 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Earlier this week, in his Roof Rack Report, Ricky described my feeble attempts at getting myself acclimated to the new Audi, the Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3. Obviously, that post put awareness of our upcoming cross-country road trip in the air. The next day I Read More
* * * COUNTDOWN: 35 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Earlier this week, in his Roof Rack Report, Ricky described my feeble attempts at getting myself acclimated to the new Audi, the Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3. Obviously, that post put awareness of our upcoming cross-country road trip in the air. The next day I Read More
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For reasons not entirely clear to me, Beagle Man and the missus got rid of the trusty old Acura MDX that carried us across the country and back in comfort and style not once, but twice — and that I fully expected would be our vehicle for the upcoming LA/XC-3 — and replaced it with Read More
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For reasons not entirely clear to me, Beagle Man and the missus got rid of the trusty old Acura MDX that carried us across the country and back in comfort and style not once, but twice — and that I fully expected would be our vehicle for the upcoming LA/XC-3 — and replaced it with Read More
Every Friday this summer I watch Beagle Man packing up the car. The big green duffel. Mrs. B’s red, flowery overnight bag. B-Man’s backpack. The blue beach bag with the RKH on the side. And then, they pat me on the head, say, “Bye-bye, Cutey” . . . and take off without me! Talk about Read More
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Back home in WePo after the long, glorious, perfect-sizzling-sunny-summer-beach-weather weekend in Paradise, aka Montauk. Early-morning breakfast/exercise routine out there was the same for me every day: Hop on my bike (actually, Matt’s bike; his is way better than mine and he was away in Iceland, fcol); ride across Napeague Meadow; cruise Cranberry Hole Road into Read More
I’ve told the story a bunch of times about the night during LA/XC-1 that my Garmin went kablooey on me in the Badlands and I had to slink into a cowboy bar and ask for directions. I knew I’d be pegged as an outsider, but I was hoping to look as little like a pathetic Read More
