Looking for a Couch

Yes, I’m looking for a couch. Next week is a ROAD TRIP! I. Am. So. EXCITED! I just love a good road trip. And when I drive, I am looking for a couch.

Sleepy time on the couch — I’m looking for a couch. Preferably one that the dogs find comfortable. Those are the best kinds of couches.

Specifically, I’m looking for a couch in or near Springfield, MO, Little Rock, AR, Poplar Bluff, MO, or anyplace about halfway between Tulsa and Nashville. Yes, I’d like to stay at your house for just one night. I’ll bring your dog the very best all natural meat treats. Depending on when I stop, I might have a dozen fresh eggs.

Fresh eggs — Not this many eggs, though. It looks like a dozen, but this is only the top layer. Only the adult hens are laying. Will a dozen do?

So who’s up for an adventure? Is it you? Would you put a virtual friend up for an evening? Be warned, if I haven’t interacted with you online prior to today, I won’t say yes. I just don’t know where everyone lives, so I’m putting out feelers.

Great friends — These are some of my very best friends, taken during a road trip last fall.

I don’t have issues with hotels. I don’t. I love a good hotel bed. But even more? I love meeting my online friends in person and spending time with them. Sharing a meal with someone goes a long way toward cementing a friendship.

Maggie Marton and the Good Flea — I shared a meal with Maggie a couple of years back. Prior to meeting her in New Orleans for lunch, we’d only known each other via blogging.

Okay, so there was this one time, when I drove to Illinois to visit Jones Natural Chews for the first time, that I stopped somewhere in Missouri and bought fresh eggs from an adorable six year old girl. It was the middle of nowhere and I was looking for a jigsaw puzzle museum. The beauty of road trips is that you can stop wherever you want, just because. The eggs led to my asking about the chickens. Which led to a tour of her small chicken farm.

Great eggs come from free range chickens — I actually asked to hold one of the chickens. Can you believe a stranger let me hold her chickens?!?

That road trip was the bomb. I was looking for a couch and found two! One in Volo, IL, and one with a friend’s daughter and family in southern Illinois. I’ve stayed in quite a few guest and play rooms since then, and I’ve loved every one of them.

A Rousing Game of Tug — My Volo friend doesn’t have a dog, but she was dog sitting and let me tag along.

So! If I know you here, I’d like to know you there! Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you with details, see if you’re going to be home when I’m passing through. I’d love to meet you in the fur. I’d love to bring your dog treats! It’ll make your dog smile. Naturally. 🙂

Until I write again …

Flea

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