Archive for August 21st, 2008

That’s it.  As of tomorrow I am off to my school and then Alaska.  I’ll be back here for about a week to finish clearing housing, but for all intents and purposes I am now “en route” to Alaska.

I wanted to give everyone a quick update on our dog as well.  Several people have sent supportive messages and even an offer to help defray the cost.  My family and I really appreciate everything.  You just can’t imagine how nice it was to get comments and e-mails offering to help.  It’s nice to know people like that still exist.  However, today we were able to adopt her out to another soldier’s family.  It was extremely heartbreaking for us, especially my daughter, but the dog went to a good home and hopefully they will love her as much as we did.  We wish it could have worked out differently, but we just ran out of time.

So, I don’t know how regular updates will be while we are in transit, but if you read regularly, don’t stop.  I’ll post when I can, and I plan on posting pics of our trip while we are en route.  It’s time to get underway on the next great adventure.

Guardian Angels For Soldier’s Pets is a wonderful organization that helps find foster families for soldier’s pets.  A lot of times family pets end up in pounds when soldier’s deploy because they can’t find anyone to take care of them, or don’t have the funds to send them to a family member.  I have even heard of pets being set free to roam or locked in their now empty houses.  I wanted to bring this organization to attention here, because until a few days ago I had never heard of them.