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LA/XC-2 DAYS FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, AND EIGHT:  DENVER, THERMOPOLIS (WYOMING), YELLOWSTONE AND GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARKS, IDAHO, AND NEVADA Day Five mileage: 289 Day Six mileage: 420 Day Seven mileage: 298 Day Eight mileage: 406 Total LA/XC-2 mileage: 3,052 Road Music:  XM regular stati…
LA/XC-2 DAY FOUR:  IOWA AND NEBRASKA Yesterday’s mileage:  467 Total LA/XC-2 mileage: 1,639 Road Music:  NFL Football:  Jets game; NFL “Drive Time”; Denver-Pittsburgh game; for a short musical break:  Keith Urban (Get Closer album) Weather leaving Grinnell:  65 under a gorgeous blue Iowa sky Y…
So two nights ago we meet Luke and his roommate Hayes for dinner at the Grinnell Steakhouse (now there’s a place that has “Ricky” written all over it), and Hayes starts telling us about seeing Obama speak in Iowa City the day before.  Iowa City — we just finished driving through there, but a day to…
LA/XC-2 DAYS TWO AND THREE:  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AND GRINNELL, IOWA Friday’s mileage:  560 Saturday’s mileage: 322 Total LA/XC-2 mileage: 1,173 Road Music Friday:  XM “regulars” (Fox, CNN, ESPN); XM The Highway (worst song heard: American Beauty by the Lost Trailers; best song heard: American…
Yeah, I know it was a week ago, but I still find myself thinking about Clint Eastwood’s speech at the RNC.  Kind of weird.  Kind of creepy. And then I hear on CNN yesterday that Scarlett Johansson would be speaking up for Obama.  Sure, I’m a dog, but I’d take Scarlett over Clint in a heartbeat. …
LA/XC-2 DAY ONE: STATE COLLEGE, PA Today’s mileage:  290.7 Total LA/XC-2 mileage: 290.7 Road Music:  Local news (WCBS); local sports (ESPN); Fox News; CNN news; national sports (ESPN); The Highway (new country music); iPod singles playlist — a motley collection I put together, but I was rea…
* * *  COUNTDOWN:  2 DAYS TO LA/XC-2  * * * Was just reading a headline on The Fiscal Times website:  “Obama on the Defense as Dems Convene in Charlotte.”  Wait.  Isn’t Obama the incumbent? But he’s on the defense? Politics.  Go figure.  Still, I like to keep up.  Just because Beagle Man’s a politi…
* * *  COUNTDOWN:  3 DAYS TO LA/XC-2  * * * Take a look at Tripp’s face.  Okay, now look at mine.  Even though he’s an English pointer with a preppy name, we could be brothers, no?  Tripp, like Romeo, and like Monty and Bandit, is one of my Montauk beach buddies.  In fact, he’s related to M&B…
* * *  COUNTDOWN:  4 DAYS TO LA/XC-2  * * * Throughout the Republican National Convention this past week, I kept hearing Tampa this, and Tampa that.  Why all this love for Tampa? Then on Thursday, while I was listening to radio coverage of Day 3, the commentator said he was “reporting live from Ta…
* * *  COUNTDOWN:  8 DAYS TO LA/XC-2  * * * Grand-nephew Teddy, Sheepadoodle Max. (That’s Teddy on the left.) You can follow Beagle Man on Facebook and Twitter

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