BAD PET OWNERS SUCK!

2:20


We just saw the most awful thing. I thought Daddy was gonna stop and punch this guy out. So we are driving along the highway, through the outskirts of a town, when we see this guy swerve to the greenbelt in the middle of the road, and slam on his breaks. So we think his truck is on fire or something. He gets out and starts running through the tall grass in the median. We see he’s running after his DOG! The dog was wearing a Stars and Bars bandana and was an ol’ coon dog and probably beagle mix. He was running all frantic and funny-like through the grass. It looked like at least one if not both his front legs were broken because he kept falling over and it didn’t look like it was the tall grass that was causing the problem. The stupid redneck asshole prolly had his dog in the back of his truck and it fell or jumped out!!! Daddy was yelling and cursing for a good 5 min about it, and continued muttering under his breath about it for another 20. It was a really irresponsible thing for that guy to have done. Animals are not disposable or invincible. They are also not that smart. They rely on us, their humans to be not only their caregiver, but their protector as well. A dog should NEVER EVER EVER ride in the back of a truck OR with its’ head out the window. Anyone who does that is a bad pet owner and should not be allowed to have a pet. I don’t care who this offends; you suck if you allow your animals to ride this way! Oh we were so ripped!!!

Pinstripers and Sex Shops

1:19pm


We are on our way to Surf City, NC to have linner (lunch and dinner) with some of Daddy’s friends that he met recently at the Hot Rod show he had photographed in Syracuse, NY. They are largely responsible for putting together the panel jams (where a bunch of pro pinstripers get together and each take turns laying lines on a panel that is later auctioned off) that raise money for a non-profit organization helping battered children in the area called the McMahon house. He also hosts an annual event as part of the show, called Arties Party, where all the top talents in the pinstriping biz can get together to share ideas or to meet up with old friends. Linda, Artie and Daddy had hit it off really well at the show and he wanted them to meet Seamus and me. Artie had told us a better way to get to his place, other than the main road which he knew would be congested, especially at this time of day. Well, we missed the turn-off, so we ended up following the GPS route anyway. It was one of those great southern strips of road for tourists where the stores’ pattern was as follows: Firework shop, mini-golf, seafood restaurant, sex shop, supersized swim/beach store, sex shop, mini-golf, other restaurant, sex shop, mini-golf, repeat.

The NO Venus Fly Trap Trail!

Day 4
12:34pm

After breaking down the campsite we drove to what the park had named Flytrap Trail. Here we were to find not only the Venus Flytraps, which was our entire reason for visiting the park, but several other endangered and bizarre carnivorous plants. It was early but the sun was already hot, a far cry from the overcast thunder showers predicted yesterday. Good thing, because we going trail walking rain or shine, shine was just bound to be more fun. We walked the whole trail and saw a lot of great flora and some fauna, but you know what??? NOT A SINGLE GODDAMM FLYTRAP!!! We even went searching off the trail like bad lil’ kids to the swampier areas to find some, but we still came up with nothing. The only one we did see was the Yellow Pitcher Plant. It was cool to find, and made for some nice photos, but I wanted Flytraps dammit. I mean if you go to Flytrap Trail there should be at least a few Flytraps, right? Am I asking too much?? I mean they could transplant some along the path to satisfy the tourists’. No one would be the wiser! ALAS!!!!

We did see some other cool plants and the nature trail was very pretty.......