Travelog for: Coney

This afternoon we landed in Grand Junction at Walker Field Airport and did we ever get a big surprise.  There were Patriot Guard Riders with a flag line in the lobby and all kinds of people to welcome us and give us gifts.  There were 2 TV crews there and a newspaper reporter.
The reporter wanted to know all about me and why I had been in Baghdad and what I did there.

Today when I went out to wander around the back yard I met a new friend Cool Jules who is visiting here right now.

We will go on some adventures together before I leave back to Ft Bragg and my next military mission.



I also bumped into Charlie but he remembered me even though I have been gone so long.



In the house I found a pineapple I was going to nibble on but wourpet told me it was for the Easter ham.

In honor of my birthday tomorrow, and  Easter today, we went up on the Colorado Monument.



Cool Jules and Lucky-Ducky came too and they have more pictures.













Tomorrow I will be heading back to Ft Bragg because my leave is over.

OH NO!!!  I missed my plane to North Carolina.  I got up early with Wuffy and got my things gathered up.  Wuffy carried his bags out to Wourpets truck and I was trying to drag mine out when they drove away.  I tried to follow them to the airport and couldn't call because they didn't leave me a cell.  Now I don't know what to do.  Wuffy called and said I am AWOL!





This is serious!

I still haven't made arrangements to get back to Ft Bragg but wourpet said we'll work it out.  We were planning a send off for Cool Jules because he's heading back to Miami.  While we were getting him packed some new guests showed up.  Candy Cotton and Mittens arrived.  Wourpet was happy to see them because they have been missing for a very long time but the host that had them finally sent them on.


This is a picture of me with Mittens, Lucky-Ducky (back from a long visit in Porvoo Finland), Cool Jules and Candy Cotton.

Tonight I had a special mission to do.  There was a SSG coming home from Ft Huachuca.  She has been with the army since 2004 and she was in Iraq too.  She is an MP and is now stationed in Ft Huachuca.  She just re-enlisted for another 6 years and she was com ing home on leave.  We decided to give her a big welcome home even if she wasn't coming into the airport.  We all gathered at her house in the dark and at 2100 hours she drove in and was quite surprised.  We were lined up holding flags on both sides of the street and all around the driveway.  My job was to holler if I heard a car coming because we were on a corner.





We didn't get anymore pictures because we had to put the camera away and hold the flag.

Today we got to travel.  We got a nice comfiy spot on the dash of the truck where we could see out the window.


Soon after we started on our voyage it started to storm.  We were worried it would be a very stormy trip.



We drove right through the storm and soon it was nice and clear again.



We drove into some very steep mountains and wourpet told us we would be climbing right up over top of them.


and we did



and there was snow up on top of the mountains too!


The first town we came to was Rangely, Colorado.

We arrived at Vernal Utah not long after we were in Dinosaur.  They are close together and the Dinosaur National Monument is in between.
The first thing we saw as we came into town was another Dinosaur.  This was a very big pink one!

Whoopee!!


Tomorrow SPC Wuffy is taking me back to Ft Bragg but today I had a blast with the jet boat.



TibiPanda got a little carried away and came flying right up on the banks.  We didn't all scatter out of his way fast enough but fortunately there were no injuries.

Well -- this is it.  I'm back on duty at my Duty Station.  At least for the flight I got the laptop.  SPC Wuffy and I left Grand Junction airport this morning and are back in the barracks at Ft Bragg.

The picture was taken just before we left the house to go to the airport.

I haven't been doing much around the base these days.  We had to pull weeds in the parking lot to get it ready for President Bush to land his helicopter. Me and Wuffy got sun burned pretty bad doing that.

I was sorting through some old pictures and I found one I forgot I had.  Its of the canyon up at the Colorado Monument.  You can barely notice us in the front corner -- it was pretty scary too.  Did I even mention I am scared of heights?  Thats why I became a paratrooper.

Here I am in Kamloops British Columbia!
Wuffy and I are on our post sployment unit leave so this is where we came.  Wuffy used to live here so he wanted to stop in and see the old place and old friends. 



I'm enjoying all the travel.

What a nice peaceful relaxing morning.  Wuffy and I are down at Riverside Park. 

He was telling me about the Colliseum (ts a bank now) must mostly we just walked around smelling the flowers. 

The gulls were even sleeping still.

This is a pretty neat viking bench, eh?  Its a Canadain thing, eh?  Ending the sentence with a question.

I am back on base and will update with pictures soon.

I am home on leave for Thanksgiving.  Its only for 48 hours but its good to be home.