We traveled to Massachusetts a little over a year ago to visit family and friends for the holidays. It was the usual road trip with Two Dudes and Two Dogs. We always head down to Provincetown to see our non-related family on the tip of Cape Cod. This day, we packed up the car with an additional dudette, Kate, and headed form her house to Ptown to spend a few days at the
Gallery Inn. The manager, Rob, a friend for many years had offered us a few rooms for a few nights.
The drive down the cape was treacherous as there was a pretty big storm happening. Driving down the snow covered highways at 30 mph certainly made the trip longer than usual. I must admit that I was impressed with my driving skills through the snow. I still had the technique down after 5 years in CA.
We had the opportunity to take the dogs for a walk at
Clapps Pond, a beautiful wooded conservation area on Route 6 East. Tom used to take daily walks with Amos here when he lived in Provincetown. I joined him sometimes. The paths are varied in width and grade. On this day, there was a freshly fallen snow gently covering the paths.
BuddyJack & Luther are not the best behaved dogs, or rather, we may not have been the best teachers. Our experience in this area with Amos was to let him run off leash. He was a good dog. We sometimes think that the current pack will somehow miraculously be better dogs. We took them off their leashes and Bam! They were off. We were very fortunate for the temperature (not too many people out) and the fresh snow (it showed their paw prints nicely).
Tom and I walked the path with a bit of fear of losing the dogs and a lot of joy of being back in Ptown on this beautiful winter day. Up and down the grades, following the prints in the snow until they just stopped. Oops...Looks like they may have gone off path. How do you find dogs in the middle of woods on a sand dune? You don't! They'll find you.
Out of nowhere, Two Dogs come a running, loving the snow and the open space. We stopped and took these shots of the TravelingDogs. It became the January photo for this year's calendar.
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The January Photo on the TravelingDog Calendar
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Clapps Pond gets 4 Barks! Check it out on your next visit to Provincetown. Hike it with your furry friends or non-furry ones. Beautiful in all seasons and a great respite from the bustling Commercial Street.
John Milkovisch, a retired upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad started the project in 1968. He started to inlay marbles, rocks and metal pieces into concrete in order to avoid mowing the grass. Once the front and back yards were covered, he started to side his house with aluminum cans, beer cans. John drank ALL of the beer needed, estimated at 50,000 cans, to produce the unique and decorative aluminum siding covering his house and outbuilding.
