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An Extra Hour!

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…

Smear Campaigns

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…

There’s Something About Iowa

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…

Clint vs. Scarlett

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. …

Greetings From Happy Valley

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…

Introducing . . . The Dongle!

* * * 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…

MY PALS: Tripp

* * * 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…

Ricky Speaks Out

* * * 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…

Wordless Wednesday

* * * 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

MY PALS: Romeo

* * * COUNTDOWN: 10 DAYS TO LA/XC-2 * * * I have a lot of friends on the beach in Montauk — that is, when I’m actually allowed to go. (Hear that, Beagle Man?) There’s Monty and Bandit, who I just told you about. There’s Beau, the yellow Lab who loves to steal Robby’s football. But my oldest…