Posts by Hank

* * *  COUNTDOWN:  7 DAYS TO LA/XC-3  * * * The new (very old) Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3  (Robby, I added the BEAGLE ON BOARD decal for the trip; hope you don’t mind.) Just about a month ago, Ricky took it upon himself to a…

* * *  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 LA/XC-32013 dog out…

* * *  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 Hank fascinated when he runs into another creature named Hank.  They m…

* * *  COUNTDOWN:  35 DAYS TO LA/XC-3  * * * The Trojan beagle? 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.  Ob…

Broken perch (You can see the perch/arm drooping more clearly in the close-up photo, left) Back home in WePo after the long, glorious, perfect-sizzling-sunny-summer-beach-weather weekend in Paradise, aka Montauk.  Early-morni…

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 easterner as possible, so I …

“Ricky, lie down and fall asleep on the tile floor in the kitchen. Good boy!” No, it’s not your imagination; Robby’s been making way more appearances in Beagle Man than usual lately.  That’s cause he’s home from school for th…

Ricky, my pet animal, rides shotgun Robby and I laugh at a lot of the same stuff.  Sometimes we even make identical puns simultaneously.  I find his deadpan tweet-humor hilarious.  He laughs hysterically at my corny “daddy jo…

The kids fuss over him; Ricky makes the best of it Let’s face it.  When your dog has a command performance to make — especially when it’s inside — there’s one thing you’re going to worry about.  Oh, sure, you can see to it th…

Happy 10th B-day, you handsome beagle! You can follow Beagle Man on Facebook and Twitter