July 24 is a bitter sweet memory here at the Dog House, that being the day in 1993 that I made the dreadful decision to put Dominoe to sleep, the faithful dog who traveled cross country with me form Baltimore to Phoenix, who tagged along on my excursions up and down the west, and whose […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog As I drive around the country, I spend a lot of time behind the wheel trying to make guesses at what is worth stopping to see. I cannot pick everything, else I would not get anywhere, and there is a certain amount of blind luck […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 28 Miles Driven: 3300 Number of States driven in: 6 Money spent on gas: $594.70 Photos posted: 731 (that is an average of 26 per day) ds106 Mile marker Photos: 2 (Idaho and Washington) Number of nights in hotels: […]
Tomorrow marks the 4 week mark for this Road Odyssey, which is about 1/4 the time I thought I’d travel (but that is not firm). I’ll cross the 3000 mile point in the morning, somewhere in north Central Washington State. On the map, I won’t make the quarter turn until first week of August, when […]
Here is another genuine character I met on the road recently. Going past the road to tiny Cottonwood, Idaho, a giant wooden beagle on the left caught my eye; how could I pass up the sign for Dog Bark Park? The big dog is actually a multi-story B&B- yes, you can arrange so spend a […]
It’s been fun to see positive reaction to this little experiment, and with some time today, I have added some new features, moved it from my lab testing server to its own domain http://pechaflickr.cogdogblog.com/, and just now posted the source code http://code.google.com/p/pechaflickr/. What is it? It’s just like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, two great tastes…. […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This is Richard Dean, an affable and eager to share park guide I stumbled into in Arco, Idaho. I had just visited a rather interesting museum located on the property of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)- the place where nuclear fission was used to runt […]
As an ed tech blogger, there seem to be 2 things to blog about recently- Why Google Plus is The Greatest Thing Since _____ or Why Google Plus is Just Another Wave Fantasy. ‘Scuse me while I sit on the fence and see. A major problem with this technology is it is missing a funky […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by D’Arcy Norman My last tactical effort to solicit items for the StoryBox had a good number of reads and tweets– and I got nothing sent in. And in talking to some friends, I figured (once again, lather, rinse, repeat), I am doing it wrong. Asking […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Each week I provide a collection of useful statistics for my road trip… well, useful to me. Number of days on the road: 15 Miles Driven: 1568 Number of States driven in: 4 Money spent on gas: $371.23 (cheapest so far $3.49/gallon in Wyoming) Photos […]
