July 12, 2023 • 52 mins
There's a new and adorable sheriff in town and he also happens to be a very seasoned traveler. Meet Malbec, hear about his amazing adventures and maybe even pick up a travel tip or two. This is the perfect episode for the travel season. If you love dogs, travel or both, there's plenty here for you!
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Julie Jackson (00:02):
Hey, welcome to Happy Tales of Happy Tails, the
podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pups have
touched our hearts and ourlives. So for the next few
minutes, let everything else goand just listen and smile. I'm
your host, Julie Jackson. Thisweek I'm excited to share a
conversation with you with mysweet friend Lisa and her good
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boy Malbec. These two are theultimate adventures. They have
taken so many cool tripstogether and have the coolest
setup. After you hear her story,you just might be inspired to
load your pups up and take themwith you on vacation this
summer. So sit back, relax,listen and smile so much for
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doing this.
Lisa (00:49):
Of course, yeah
Julie Jackson (00:52):
So, first for everyone who doesn't have the
pleasure of knowing. Tell usabout Mobic introduce him and
then let her rip.
Lisa (01:02):
Oh well. Gosh, Malbec is a he is a rescue mutt. I like to
say he is probably one of themost most like Heinz 57 dogs
that did get his DNA done. Andhe has a little bit of I like to
say pretty much every dog exceptfor like the little dogs because
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he ended up being a lot biggerthan I anticipated. I used to
work with rescue organizationsin Charlotte, North Carolina.
And I actually had a foster dogat the time and they sent out a
call for transport help me and Iwas like, I'll help transport
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but I can't foster right now.
Like I'm getting my fosteradopted on Sunday, it was a
Friday, I was like, I just needa minute. And then they sent me
a picture of 11 puppies from a,a litter that was an accident
and, and Malbec was like in themiddle of the of the picture and
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his puppy picture. I mean, hejust sort of looks almost like
he could have been a like St.
Bernard or a bernese mountaindog. And both of those looks are
tight, like dogs that I justhave always gravitated towards.
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And so I was like, oh, no, like,
Julie Jackson (02:34):
this is not going to end the way I thought
Lisa (02:38):
Well, by the time I got there, one of my girlfriends,
rode with me. And by the time Igot there, we had convinced each
So what was his sister's winename?
other that I would at leastfoster two of the puppies and
Malbec. And this one would beone of them. And at the time, I
was on the hunt for my own dog.
But I was fostering in themeantime until I found it. And
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my expectation was I was goingto adopt a like year old, you
know, puppies get adopted soeasily. So like a year old dog
that, you know, just might needsome training, which was totally
fine with me. You know, could beactive could go you know,
kayaking, and other things withme. And when I saw these
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puppies, I basically told thefoster group, I was like, I
don't know who you have lined upto foster these dogs. But I'm
transporting so I get first. AndI'm taking these two with me.
And not only did I not want apuppy. I didn't think I wanted a
male I we grew up with allfemale dogs. So I just My uncle
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had had a male dog and had sometendencies that were not my
favorite. And so I'd had justhad this perspective in my mind
that like I would always have afemale dog and so when I grabbed
him and I turned him over, man,and I was like, Well, I've never
had a male I've never I've hadnever even had a male foster I
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always thought for females andand so I was like okay, I'm
gonna get him and his blondesister. So they were very
similar looking but one wasblonde and one was darker. And I
ended up fostering the two ofthem and I just I was gone or
like from that night like Ipretty much and this is this
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this actually proves why like Iwasn't admitting it to myself.
However when so we ended upnaming we in rescue boys theme
the litters to keep track ofthem and we ended up theming the
litter the wind litter because Ilike wine and um When I took the
two of them, I was likedefinitely taking this one. So,
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you know, he needs to be a wineI like. And they were like,
well, what's your favorite wine?
And I said, well back. So yeah.
And then his sister, one of myfriends actually ended up
adopting her may have gotten tosort of grow up together. So. So
yeah, that's how Malbec and Icame to be. And he is now six
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years old. And he just traveledeverywhere with me.
His sister's wine name was oneof my least favorite wines,
actually. And I started tocorrect them when they gave it
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to her. But they had alreadygiven some of the other females
some of the better names and Ijust, I wasn't like really
thinking very. I wasn't thinkingbut no offense to anyone if they
liked this line, but it'sMoscato for me,
Julie Jackson (06:07):
so what is her name now?
Lisa (06:10):
Her name now is Luna Wynter. Oh, Luna winter, spelled
W Y N T E R.
Julie Jackson (06:18):
O, but they still get to see each other.
Unknown (06:21):
So yeah, it's been a little while since I've
relocated. However, she now hasrelocated to Florida, not too
far from here. So because I'm inI'm right outside of
Jacksonville, Florida. And she'snow near like the Cocoa Beach
area. So Melbourne beach area,so not too far. Oh, so I expect
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we will probably see them again.
Julie Jackson (06:47):
Well, he's so precious. And y'all have such a
sweet relationship. So what aresome of your favorite stories
about him? I'm sure you haveplenty.
Unknown (06:56):
Gosh, I could, I could go on and on. I mean, I think,
you know, he has just been sucha good travel partner. I have a
camper and I actually so like ifyou're if you do like camping or
anything like that, a lot ofcampers make their own like
stickers and stuff like that. SoI actually have my water bottle
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here. And this is our stickeraround with Lisa. And it says
ROAM with Lisa and Malbec. Andit has my little camper at the
top. A little bright up here.
The little camper at the top.
And then it has me and Malbec inlike cartoon. And it's on my big
water bottle that I put all ofour life travel stuff on. But
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yeah, he we he's basically my,my, my co pilot, and we have
been across the country threetimes. And he's probably more
well traveled than a lot ofhumans. I know. He's been to
probably more like nationalparks than a lot of humans. I
know and and pay Don't come atme people that know that
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National Parks are not super dogfriendly. You know, I've got a
camper that's fully like I canlive in it and everything else.
So we typically will drivethrough where we can and we find
the dog friendly areas. Butyeah, he he is the best travel
partner, he will go kayak, hewill pretty much he very, he
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knows like he's very trusting ofme, he will go kayaking with me.
If I tell him to get onsomething, even if he gives me
that look first, like I'm not sosure about this mom. Eventually,
he usually does. So he's prettyinteresting. People always
comment, like, I have a fewphotos of us like in front of
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the Grand Canyon sign or someother signs. And because I'm
typically a solo traveler withjust him to get photos, you
know, you have to get creative.
And so I'll put him up like atthe sign and then like, run like
1015 feet away so that I canselfie me but get the whole sign
in it. And he'll just sit thereand like, sometimes they'll cry
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a little because he's like, Whatare you doing like this thing.
But he'll stay there. And let metake a picture. And sometimes
it's so funny because thenpeople will like come up and
they'll be like, do you want usto get you guys together and I'm
like, this is sort of our thing.
Julie Jackson (09:35):
We have a deal.
Lisa (09:37):
Like this is sort of like we now have an album of all of
these photos and whether it's infront of a national park or just
a really fun like, you know, artyou know, people are doing a lot
of art like on walls in townthen like went to Cheyenne and
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which is really cool town by theway. Um And they had a big art
installation with Cheyenne onthe wall. And you know, we, we
either do the selfie thing or ifthere's somewhere to prop my
phone up, I now have like atripod. So I try to get some of
the more professional lookingphotos when I can, but
Julie Jackson (10:18):
I don't know. I really love the selfie thing
though with him back there.
Lisa (10:21):
Yeah, it's fun. I know.
And you can tell sometimes,because I'll like talk to him.
So I'm like, taking it's just,and I'm like, people are like
passing us on the side of theroad. And I'm like, talking to
him like taking a selfie.
They're probably like, what isthis girl doing? She's crazy.
But yes, I ended up with somefun, fun photos. So, so yeah, he
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has been you know, we go we wewent out. I was gone for gosh,
several months. One of the tripswhere we drove out through
Arizona and up into Utah andthen to Yellowstone and the
Tetons and then back up throughYellowstone to Big Sky, Montana.
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And Malbec came with me and I'lltell you what, like he he
thought the buffalo were veryinteresting. I have a video of
us in Yellowstone. Just drivingreally slow by like a group of
Buffalo. I'm not really sure. Orbison, I guess I don't think
it's bison in Yellowstone. I'mnot sure what like what the herd
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name of them are. But we'regoing by and, you know, they're
looking at him and makingnoises. And he's looking out
there. But he was not making apeep. He was just sort of like
staring at them. Like, what isthat thing? He kind of looks
looks, you know, over yourshoulder at me like, are you
still there? Are you going toprotect me? But yeah, it's a lot
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of fun. And it's always fun.
Because you know, because I'mable to travel with him. It's
fun, because a lot of peoplethat are on vacation and are
traveling have left their dogsat home. Yeah. And so oftentimes
people come up, Oh, can we petyour dog, we'd miss our dog so
much. And he'll usually he'llusually if I asked him to sit
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down, he'll sit down. And thenwhen people start to approach
him, he just lays down and rollsover. And it's like, you can pet
my belly. So he's a bit of aham. Sometimes if you ever see
us out, yeah. And, and it's funto allow people to have that
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little bit of, you know, tasteof home with their, you know,
missing their dog.
Julie Jackson (12:45):
Okay, and I'm that people. So thank you.
Lisa (12:47):
I know you are because I know we stopped while we were on
our run. We're both like, Shouldwe stop? Should we stop and we
were like the only oneseverybody else was worried about
finishing the run, the 10k orwhichever one it was that we
were like, and we're like, No,we're like golden retriever.
Stop. Okay, we're stopping
Julie Jackson (13:06):
Always stop for the dog. I know. Always stop for
the dog. So it's funny when youtalk about him rolling over for
so that people can pet hisbelly. We were actually in
London. And this lady camewalking down the street with
her, it was a little bittydachshund so cute, tiny little
dachshund. And we come walkingup and same thing. We were like,
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Oh my gosh, we miss our dogs.
Can we pet your dog? And it's sofunny, because just then we're
like, What's your dog's name?
dog's name was Pickle. And mygosh, we went to pet Pickle,
Pickle did the same thing andflipped over on her back. And so
ever since then we call itpulling a Pickle. Probably think
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we're nuts. Because we're thatfamily. And we'll be out. Yeah.
Oh, can we pet your dog and theydo that? Oh, they're pulling a
Pickle.
Lisa (13:56):
Oh that's so cute. You know, it's so interesting,
because Malbec has done thatsince he was a puppy. When I
first got him, I used to takehim to a local dog bar that's in
Charlotte called Lucky Dog. Andmy friend who ended up adopting
his sister would meet me upthere and I would bring both
puppies so that she could seethe puppy until until she was
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able to have it because it waslike during the holidays and
everything and people were goingout of town. And so I was like,
I'll keep both dogs until afterthe holidays. And so but I would
meet her there and from when hewas a little puppy. You know,
like when other dogs would comeup even. He would just roll over
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and like put his leg up. And sonow now he as an adult, he does
it to people. He doesn't do itso much to dogs anymore, but he
just do it to people. It's likehe trusts people more than dogs.
Like he doesn't really care He'sa sweet boy. Yes. So
Julie Jackson (15:02):
I know y'all have done so many different things.
Does he seem to have a favoritekind of activity or like a
favorite climate? Or is he justso happy to do whatever it is
that y'all are doing together?
Lisa (15:15):
I mean, I think honestly, like, like I said, he's just so
trusting of me that I think hepretty much just wants to be
wherever I am. And you know, Ithink a lot of people are
dealing with that, especiallyafter like, the pandemic and
being home for so long. I'mfortunate enough to still be
someone who is working remote,and I have the opportunity to go
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into the office, but for themost part, I am working remote.
And so you know, I have beenwith him every single day. So
like, he now knows, like, evenif I'm just getting dressed to
like, you know, like, outside ofjust like casual clothes, if I'm
getting dressed and like puttingmakeup on and stuff. He like
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comes and stares at me and likestarts just to like mope because
he like knows that I'm gonna beleaving him. Yeah. And I have
to, I have to either say, like,you know, buddy have to stay
here or, you know, I'll let himknow that he's allowed to come.
And then he like that, but Ican't say that too soon. Because
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then he'll drive me crazy, likecrying at the door.
Like you said, we were going,you gave me the sign.
Exactly. But I do think that heloves He really enjoyed being in
the climate, like, in the, like,West, not far west, but like,
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Arizona, Utah, Montana. And butI also think that had to do with
just how active we were duringthat trip. And you know, I
pretty I mean, it was just, heand I and I don't I don't like
to leave him even though my rigis set up to where it's
completely insulated. It has ACand heat and everything else. I
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don't like to leave him in itfor too long, you know, by
himself. And so I took himeverywhere. And he just really
enjoyed like he likes toexplore, like I like to explore.
So he gets excited, like jumpingout of the camper and like
seeing where we are and what'saround and especially if there's
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water, like do not get him nearwater if he's not allowed to go
in because he will go in and heloves to have swimming. And that
is probably his favorite. So welive at the beach now. And I
take him up to the to the beach,on our walks. But sometimes I'm
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like, I'm sick of the sand,buddy. We're not gonna go to the
beach today. And he will like,he knows every single beach
access and he'll just like pullme towards that. And I'm like,
I'm like, Alright, fine. I'mlike, That's mean. Like, we live
at the beach. Like you should beable to go to the beach. So but
yeah, he's definitely a lover ofwater and streams and anything
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that he can get into. He will doit.
Julie Jackson (18:18):
Sorry, I keep getting distracted because I
keep seeing him.
Lisa (18:22):
Malbec
Julie Jackson (18:26):
Hi buddy! There you are. Oh, there's a big
fluffy tip. I love yourfreckles. I love it. This isn't
my meeting. This is yours,Malbec. You just didn't know it.
Lisa (18:47):
Exactly, exactly. Yeah, so he's definitely a water dog. He
loves the water.
Julie Jackson (18:54):
So what do you think you've learned from him?
Lisa (18:58):
Oh, my, um, I mean, I think that he is just, he's just
so like, loyal. And I mean, hecan be I mean, again, because of
like, the pandemic andeverything. I think that he's a
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little he does have a little bitof an attachment problem, but
but that's okay. I don't mind.
You know, I think he's just, Ilove there's actually I can
picture it now because I wasactually just putting together a
couple of weeks ago a video ofsome travels that we've done
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together and we were in LakePowell in it's right on the
Arizona the Utah border. And wewere there and and I was working
East Coast time even though wewere on what coasts are mountain
time. And so I would have I keptthat, that routine. And so we
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would go walking in the morninglike really early. And there'd
be like nobody up. And at LakePowell, the water has gone down,
the water level is down so lowthat there's a huge beach. I
mean, it might be almost a mile,like wrong to get to the water.
And so I would just take him offleash, because there's nobody
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around. Yeah. And he would justtake off like, towards that
water. And like, he just is, hejust gets so excited when, you
know, he knows that, like, he'swith someone that he trusts and
he loves. And he just doesn't,he just, lets loose and just
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like, lets go and it's just sofun to see him, like, get so
excited. And I feel likeoftentimes we are, you know,
either afraid of like what otherpeople might think or what we
might look like, if here's thisgoofy kid, just like kicking up
sand and like just booking ittowards the water doesn't even
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like, look what's in the water.
Just it you know, and, and hedoes that, like coming out of
the camper. Like if anybody hasever had a camper before, when
you open the camper door. Like,it's like I can, like visualize
it perfectly. Because he'salways just like, right with me,
like, Let's go like, well, whatare we going to look at? And so
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like, he's just as adventurousas I am. And I think during the
pandemic, you know, that's whenI got the camper. And I don't
think I would have ever done itif I didn't have him. You know,
like he like, I don't know thatI would have just gone by
myself. I had a comfort like, inhaving him with me.
Julie Jackson (21:53):
Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't realize
that's when you got it. I just,I just thought that y'all been
doing this forever?
Lisa (22:00):
Oh, no. Yeah, no, like, I mean, because that's when, you
know, I was able to be soflexible with work. And so you
know, nobody was allowed to comeback into the office, they, you
know, I was, I didn't have anyan office to go to you know, and
I'm such an avid traveler that Istarted to get the travel itch.
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And I was like, well, the onlyway I can travel right now is if
I have something contained whereI can because bathrooms weren't
open, like public restaurantsweren't open. I had thought
about getting a camper van for along time. And I was like, when
else am I going to have thisopportunity to like work from
the road, but still be safe and,and be able to take him with me
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like, because, you know, like,standard travels that I was
doing before where you are, youknow, going on a plane going out
outside the United States orwhatnot, you can't take I mean,
you could but like you can'treally take easily your your dog
with you. And so I was like, Youknow what, I was like, This is
my excuse to just go ahead anddo it. And so yeah, I sold my
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house and bought a camper vanand Mark and I pretty much just
lived on the road for a while.
Julie Jackson (23:18):
I love that so much. It is such an amazing
story. And it was fun.
Traveling. I mean, in travelingoverseas, traveling anywhere is
great, but I'm very much anational park girl too. So I
wish I feel bad for people whonever have that experience.
Lisa (23:36):
You know, I'll tell you what, it also really did, I was
really nervous about thenational parks because I knew
that they were not as friendlydog friendly, and I was going to
have him with me. However, Iwill say there is nothing like
traveling via road trip, versusjust in and out in a plane.
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Because you see so much more. Imean, my friend and I were
actually driving back and I hadmy back. And actually her dog as
well with us at this. On thistrip. We were driving from
Arizona and headed towards WhitePlains National Park. And we
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passed by the proper tombstone,and like the town tombstone, and
like we saw the sign mural,like, you know, we were like, on
our way we kind of had aschedule because it was like
towards the tail end of ourtrip. And I was like, Well what
do you think and, and to havelike, I don't know, what do you
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think? And I was like, I mean,we're here. Yeah, like why not?
So we just like pulled off andit's not just right off the road
though. So that was a littlelike misleading but yeah, so we
just like pulled off and went toTombstone and like, you know
that you can't get With a normaltravel schedule, and I feel like
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I'm, I was one of those peoplewho sort of looked down on
because we, I'm from a militaryfamily. And so we moved like
every three years. And so I'veseen a lot of us, right, but
more as a youth and young adult,not as an adult. And so I sort
of was like I had, I had turnedmy focus to outside the US. And
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every year, I would do itoutside the US. And I kind of
looked down on doing travelwithin the United States. And
this just turned my opinion sodrastically. There are some of
the most beautiful states andareas in the United States. And
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I have been a lot of placesoutside the United States, and
the diversity in likeYellowstone, and Johanna, in
terms of what you can see. Andthe differences between just
miles from each other is soincredible that I do I agree
with you. I mean, it's justunfortunate that more people
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don't experience the US and areso focused on, you know, these
big luxury travel trips, becausethey're really missing out. And
yet some of these little townsthat you stop at in between are
just so amazing. And you justmeet the coolest people.
Julie Jackson (26:31):
That's so true. I when I was a kid, my parents, we
did a lot of road trips, and wehad the station wagon, and I
remember they would set me up inthe paneling. We did have one.
Yes, we did. And you know, weand my dad from work, they had
Suburbans to but that was beforeSuburbans were cool. That was
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when they were like utilitarian,you know, work vehicles. And
they put he put like a campermattress in the back. And I get
all set up with you know, all myentertainment. And we would set
out early one morning and I usedto laugh that it was like as
much ground as we could coverfor one week and then as much
ground back and Yeah, no kiddingwhen I was a kid if we'd you
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know, we'd stay in little hotelmotels along the way. And at one
point, I was like, Why did theyhave closets? Why do they have
drawers? I couldn't figure itout.
Lisa (27:26):
Who's actually staying that long?
Julie Jackson (27:30):
We would if we were there 12 hours. That was
you know, because and yes.
Lisa (27:35):
My dad was that kind of traveler. Yes. He was like he
was it wasn't a journey. Forhim. It was a like, point A to
point B like, like I'm on let'sget up. Now I want to say I have
ticket Have you taken on thoughsome of your dad's like travel
tendencies. Like, I'm like,people will be like, Okay, well,
what time are we getting on theroad tomorrow? I'm like, set
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your alarm for 430 in themorning. And they're like,
what?!
Julie Jackson (28:00):
This is vacation and we're like, yeah, that's
vacation.
Lisa (28:03):
Gotta get there. That's why I'm not spending the entire
day in the car. Okay, but at thesame amount of time, and I'm
like, No, we're gonna get thereand get up before everybody else
gets moving. You will thank mewhen we get there.
Julie Jackson (28:14):
Exactly! Well, and then to you know, like,
Well, okay, so And we've hadthis discussion, too, but like,
every time I see the GrandTetons the first time I see the
Grand Tetons, I cry. I mean,every It's so incredible. And
yeah, of course love Yellowstonetoo. And they're right there
together. Yeah. But I alwayskind of joke because I say
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Yellowstone, Yellowstone sogreat, because I can get my nerd
on. Because there's all thewildlife and the geothermal and
you know, everything.
Lisa (28:42):
But a geothermal are so cool.
Julie Jackson (28:45):
Amazing. But I'm like, I don't want to be rolling
into Yellowstone at two o'clockin the afternoon, you know,
getting into Yellowstone as soonas those gates open because
there's so much to see.
Lisa (28:56):
yeah. It's so funny, too.
Because, like, I one thing Ialso found out, you know, I, I
did the whole thing because Iwas traveling, I you know, I got
the park pass and, you know, allthe things and, and, and then,
you know, I was like asking oneof the park rangers, okay, like,
when when's the best time tocome? He's like, Well, you know,
like, we're open 24 hours. And Iwas like, what? And he was like,
Yeah, and I was like,Yellowstone, they said, they
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were like, We're open 24 hours.
And I was like, why are peoplein line then? And he's like,
it's just they want to get upand get their breakfast and
everything else. And I was like,oh, no, that will not be me.
I'll be here at four in themorning.
Julie Jackson (29:37):
I did not know that. You just taught me
something. Now we would get upearly every day and get through.
The last time we were there westayed in West Yellowstone. So
we were just like right outside.
Lisa (29:48):
I did too, yeah, yeah, and I love West Yellowstone. I do
Julie Jackson (29:51):
too. Did you happen to see right there
outside to the I'm gonna I'mforgetting the word but you It's
like the bear and Wolf. Yes. Ilove.
Lisa (30:04):
It's like a little like encounter like, well, it's like
educational or whatnot.
Julie Jackson (30:08):
Yeah. But did you go in and see it? Were you able
to go in?
Lisa (30:12):
I didn't go in.
Julie Jackson (30:13):
Yeah, if you ever get to do it, it's really cool.
Because basically, they take on,I'm not sure the story of the
wolves, but like the bears, thebears are all bears the like
kept going into neighborhoodsand communities and stuff that
would otherwise be euthanized.
And so it's kind of a rescue forthe animals.
Lisa (30:30):
but it's numbered. Yeah, I follow the Yellowstone, like
Facebook page. And so they'realways like, you know, posting,
and it's so fun. It's a goodfollow to, for anyone who's
interested, because if youfollow it throughout the year,
you get to see it in thedifferent seasons. And so it
also is a really good indicatoras to like, what, when you might
(30:53):
want to go because you'll seepeople post all about, like,
what they do while they're thereduring the different seasons,
and all of that good stuff. Andwhat they see. And so you know,
it's a really, I definitelyrecommend doing stuff like that
if you're going to be headingout there. But yeah, I'll have
to go in and check it out nexttime. I did do a lot of kind of
(31:15):
research just through like thatpage, and then like Google and
stuff like that beforehand, butwe just don't know what to do.
Julie Jackson (31:23):
Oh, crazy. Yes.
And we stumbled upon the bearwolf thing because we our hotel
was right across the street. Oh,yeah. I know exactly where you
were! Where, yes, we can hearthe wolves. And we were like,
What the heck? And of course,I'm like, Yeah, you know, it's
like big dogs. And yeah, you'relike coming. It was funny,
because I'm so easilyentertained, too. But when we
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were there, one of the bears,they would give them well, they
have one whole exhibit that wasfascinating to me, where they
turned the bears loose withevery different kind of trash
can imaginable to see like,which ones they would want to
and how long it took. And theyshowed they had them all out
where you could see like, thisis what a bathtime Yes, but one
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of the things they would do isthey gave one of them an igloo,
and he had the igloo cooler, andthey had it all strapped up and
everything. And, and he was outthere. And they were watching to
see what he would do with it andso crazy, but they had filled it
with like fish or something. Andit was strapped and he couldn't
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get the straps off. But hefigured out to pop the little
drain hole. And then he woulddrink the Yes. And then he would
submerge it and fill it up torinse and drink more. And then
he would submerge again.
Unknown (32:42):
That is so crazy. What a smart bear!
Julie Jackson (32:45):
Yes! It was nuts.
And so they do all those things.
And they watch them, you know,and they kind of learn. Yeah.
But like he had the and theysaid that that one guy. They
were like, Oh yeah, he's ourcooler guy. Anytime we have
anything like this. We give itto him because he's relentless.
And the other bears were kind oflike, okay, whatever. And he was
like rolling around in the waterthat cooler.
Lisa (33:04):
And he's like, I know something's coming out of it.
Julie Jackson (33:06):
Yes! Yeah. And I could have sat there all
afternoon and just watched himdo that. It was fast. Oh my
gosh, just to watch so cool.
Lisa (33:14):
Yeah, it's really animals are are incredible. I mean, they
really are like people. Like, Imean, I know this is like
blasphemous. But the people whoare like, I mean, it's just a
dog or like whatnot. And, andlike, they'll say, like, Malbec
won't remember his sister. AndI'm like, Are you out of your
mind? Like, yes, he will. Andthey I'm just like, how sad for
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you. They say you did not growup with some lack of something
that you that doesn't give youthat like perspective of
animals, because they're just soincredibly smart. I actually was
even just talking about like,dogs aside. I'm telling some of
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my friends, which they couldn'tbelieve we had a rat when we
were growing up. Oh, they're inCalifornia. They're so smart. I
was telling them a story abouthow we had had a parakeet before
it either flew away orsomething. Who knows? Yes, um,
we were told it flew away. Butwe still had its cage and we
(34:23):
used that as the rat cage. Andso you know, a bird. Cage has at
least ours did the the door likelifted up. And the birds
couldn't figure it out, right.
But this rat would open thatdoor and get out. Well, we
figured out he was opening thedoor and getting out. And so we
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would put a twisty tie on it. Hewould undo the twisty tie and
get out. I mean, you would justcall him and you would like come
back, but like he would get out.
You think eventually he actuallydid leave. But yeah, he was so
smart. I mean, he's so smart.
I'm like, they can. How can youjust think these are just like
(35:03):
things that don't have a month?
I'm sort of mind activity, youknow?
Julie Jackson (35:11):
Yeah. Well, and likewise to when they say that,
you know, they don't havefeelings, are they right? And
now yeah, now,
Unknown (35:19):
I was crying over some stupid show the other day and
Malbec came over I was so upsetand he was just like, Mom,
what's wrong? And I was like thedog died on the show or went
back isn't that so sad?
Julie Jackson (35:35):
I need a hug.
Lisa (35:38):
Come snuggle with Mama.
Julie Jackson (35:41):
Well, we are so Chuck and Barney the the two
wolf mixes the floofs.
Lisa (35:47):
I saw one walk by in the background. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Julie Jackson (35:51):
Every now and then you'll see like one of them
go over the back of the chair.
Lisa (35:55):
He's like just the ear and like the tail walk.
Julie Jackson (35:58):
That's why I leave the door open because
sometimes they'll come and puttheir heads right like Chuck
likes to get my devil there.
They do they come in. Hey,buddy. Hey. Buddy, I came this
way. Hear it? Can you want tocome up? You can come up. Oh,
he's going around. But it'sfunny because our little Roscoe,
that was our tiny little heeler.
(36:22):
Barney was hilarious. BecauseBarney, do you remember the old
Looney Tunes? Oh my gosh, thecartoon with a yeti where the
Yeti would have him. Yeah. Andhe'd be like, Oh, I'm gonna do
it. Remember that. That wastotally Barney with Roscoe. And
(36:42):
Roscoe would just be like, helpme out here. But I'd come in.
And I mean, Roscoe was older.
But Barney was so much biggerand I'd come in, and Barney
would like have his arm aroundRoscoe and just speak and then
and Chuck would spoon himsometimes to Roscoe would lay on
the floor of the corner of thebed and I come in and Chuck
would come and just wrap rightaround him. But But Barney, like
we used to joke we were like, Ithink Barney thinks Roscoe is
(37:06):
his dog. You know,
Unknown (37:10):
it was it like his stuffed animal. Yes. And
Lisa (37:12):
know, he knows they even say that. That if one if,
Julie Jackson (37:12):
Barney was like the Yeti with him. Well, back in
November, Roscoe got verysuddenly sick. And we lost him
and like Barney, that thatnight? Well, we lost Roscoe on
Friday, and on Saturday nightand Barney's nonstop. Like there
you can see that that wasBarney. He was they're nonstop
all the time. And Barney wasjust sitting at the back door,
(37:33):
just sitting looking out in thebackyard. And then Roscoe, he
used to always perched at thetop of the stairs that was kind
of surveying his kingdom. Andyeah, and he could kind of get a
especially if they're bondedlike that, that if you're able
little rest, you know, a littlerespite up there, it was a
little bit more peaceful. Andaround the corner. And Barney
was perched on the bottom step,all four feet, like lined up,
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you know, like, all balanced.
And just like looking like hewas ready to spring. And it's
like, he was just looking atthat spot. Because he just knew
any minute Roscoe was goingaround that corner and be there,
he's gonna go up, you know, butit's so but you know, people
think, oh, yeah, they don'twhatever. But no, they
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to have them, see after theother passes away, so that they
understand because they willjust like, Wait, like, look for
them, you know? And so? Yeah, Imean, I mean, you could never
ever convince me that that's notthe case. Because I mean, while
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back used to after my friendadopted his sister. They would
be in the parking lot and mallback. And I would either be like
out at a brewery or like at thatdog bar. And I wouldn't have
even seen them yet. And Mobicstart, I could tell he's like,
go, I was like, somebody must behere. Like, I would tell my
(39:05):
friends. I'm like, somebody'shere that he knows. And sure
enough, she would come runningin and then he like just knew
and like, there's I was like,There's no way he could have
seen her before that. Like it'slike he could he either has a
very good sense of smell, or,well, I don't know, they just
(39:25):
have that like intuition orsomething. And I don't know, but
like he it was like, weird,because like, I'm not kidding.
He just started pulling me oneday when we were at this one
brewery in Charlotte. And all ofmy friends were like, What is he
doing? Because he's usually justlike, lays under the table. Like
it's pretty chill. And I mean,he was like pulling, pulling,
pulling. And then we get to thecorner. And their car goes by in
(39:51):
parks and she gets out of thecar and I was like, No, I'm
like, how? I'm like, did youguys like drive by with her?
head out the window or she waslike no. And I was like mama was
like pulling me over here. I waslike, it's just wild. I'm like,
he knows. It's indoor.
It's amazing.
It's amazing. Yeah. And whenLandry was born, I had four dogs
(40:14):
then. And one of them was Murphyand Murphy was a little. He was
blond, we think maybe like aborder collie lab mix. And
Murphy Bless his heart. Someonehad not been kind to him before,
or we rescued him. And so healways worried a lot of people,
right? Yes. And so Murphy hadalways been a little bit he had
(40:36):
a little bit of a timidity, youknow, he'd be kind of timid, a
little bit. Yeah. And so it wasreally funny. And it was
interesting to see how when webrought Landry home from the
hospital when she was born, howall four of them had different
responses to her. Sure. Like wehad a yellow lab, Daisy and
Daisy was funny because shewould like stick her head and
(40:58):
Landry swing and run forward andthen run backward and run
forward, backward, you know,with this week, what a big help.
Right? Right. You know, but justlike, I've watched her, I'm
watching her, you know, and thenwe had a black lab Kindel. That
was the sweetest thing thatKindel was very, like don't know
what to do. And I yeah, I don'tthink Kindel even notice Landry
was there for I know for awhile. But Murphy was so funny
(41:18):
because Murphy was always reallyserious. And it took us so he
didn't, he didn't show anyinterest in being like, like he
wasn't up sniffing on her. Hewasn't like Daisy, he didn't
have his head in the swing oranything. But then one day, I
noticed that from the day webrought her home, he laid across
(41:40):
the threshold of the door ofwhatever room she was in. Yeah,
he was
Lisa (41:47):
like, I have a job and it is to protect this little thing.
Yes.
Julie Jackson (41:52):
Yes. And and if you didn't know any better, you
would think he had no interestin her whatsoever. You know,
someone would think he was justtotally and and at first I kind
of thought that he you know, Iguess maybe like Kindel just
kind of hasn't noticed she'shere yet, or whatever. And then
all of a sudden, we realized oneday that because he had never
done that before. And hepositioned himself across the
threshold. And wait, no one gotYeah, she was in without yeah,
(42:16):
getting past him coming throughhim. Yeah, that's
Lisa (42:19):
so sweet. Yeah, Malbec does a similar I mean, he
usually, when it's just us athome, he's like, super chill, he
usually will come in at night.
And like, lay with me untilwe're really like, settled, and
then he like, moves to the endof the bed. And then eventually,
he just gets down. And then he'susually off the bed for a while.
(42:43):
And then in the morning, hecomes first thing comes back in
and Snuggles. But if I amsomewhere where there's multiple
people, or like if I'm over atmy parents or something like
that, he is he has to be in alocation where he can see where
everyone would be coming from.
(43:06):
And so hill at my parents house,for instance, they had that,
like most of their rooms are onlike you're looking at the
house, the left side of thehouse. So he sleeps in the
living room so that he can seethe front door and where
everyone's houses or houses.
Yeah, everyone's rooms are. Andlike if I go on vacation with my
friends, like sometimes I gowith a friend and our dogs to
(43:30):
Oak Island. And it's a four,it's a quad. And so it's set up
with two in two rooms, and thenall the living spaces in the
middle. And he'll fully with meat first and then he goes out
into the main area so that hecan see where everyone is he
doesn't like and he doesn't evenlike it. If we're out on the
(43:51):
beach and somebody else walksaway. He'll stare at them, like
the whole time like crazyperson. Because he's like, Wait,
somebody has left the circle oftrust. Or they go away. Talking
to you back here, like he neverwent back need you to return to
the circle. You don't have yourbuddy, you do not have your
buddy with you right now. Don'ttalk to strangers.
Julie Jackson (44:17):
What are you doing? What do you do?
Lisa (44:18):
Exactly? And save if someone tries to like enter the
circle before I tell him thatthey're okay. He'll bark at
them. So and he won't like he'llrun up and bark at them. And I'm
like, Oh, great. And I'm likeMalbec, you know, and I'll have
to like get him and introducethem and then he'll chill. But
like he'll let them know like, Idon't know who you are.
Julie Jackson (44:42):
Yeah, he's serious about his job.
Unknown (44:45):
Like I'm the sheriff in these parts. Okay.
Julie Jackson (44:49):
You said that's your nickname for him in it?
Lisa (44:51):
Yes. Yeah. So actually someone thought his name was
Sheriff at one point, because atthat at the end have dog bar we
used to go to? He would they hadthose uses plastic like, I, they
haven't met like dog parks andstuff now but they're like the
plastic like one side is stairsone sides like a ramp, you know,
(45:13):
like whatever. And so he wouldgo get up on top of it and just
stand on the top of it and likelook around. And like if dogs
were like playing too hard, hewould bark at them. And if they
didn't stop, he would go to themand bark at them. And I'd be
like, Oh, here we go Sheriffagain. And so and my friends
would be like, Oh, sheriffs onduty or whatever. And so then
(45:37):
one day, I don't even rememberwhat it was why? Why I was I
called him by his actual name.
And I was like, Malbec comehere. And somebody was like,
wait a minute, I thought yourdog's name was Sheriff. Oh, no.
Like, he just acts like thesheriff.
Julie Jackson (45:56):
Job Title.
Lisa (45:58):
His job he's on duty. So you know. Right? It's just like
when you take off a service dog,that's he can actually be
himself, you know, small backenters into like the dog park
and he is on duty.
Julie Jackson (46:13):
Got his little badge. Oh my gosh, that's the
best. Well, thank you so much. Ilove this. I love him. I love
y'all, your whole setup, yourrig and your lifestyle and
everything so
Lisa (46:35):
Well, we love it. We actually were just out in the
rig last night we went over to alocal park here. Because I don't
know about you guys, but it isspring break this week for the
kids and my niece and my nephewjust lived down the street. And
so my sister and her husband aretaking them to universal
tomorrow through Friday. And soI'm taking the rig down to go to
(47:00):
Universal with them onWednesday, and which is so
great. It's a big tip, if ever,so my sister and her husband are
staying on it in at the resort.
And um, you know, most placesyou can find like a state park
or something or a county parkand I found a county park for
that has a camp spot that's fourmiles away from Universal
(47:25):
Studios for $20 Absolutelycannot beat that. I was like,
Hey, I'm just gonna book it. IfI can go I can go if I can't I
need to work then that's fine.
So I booked it. So anyway, whileback and I were at in the rig
last night just cleaning it andmaking sure that everything was
(47:47):
good to go. So we'll be back inthe rig. Again. So it's been
it's been fun to have and beable to just kind of randomly
use it and take advantage ofthese locations that have
amazing opportunities forinexpensive and you have all
your stuff with you. Yes, andmost importantly your dog.
Julie Jackson (48:10):
Yeah. Well, and whenever the article comes out
you're gonna post
Lisa (48:17):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did recently get one so mobile I
can I are in a it just startpicture. It's in it right now.
Actually, yeah, just one of ourpictures is in it right now.
It's a magazine, but we haveanother photo that's going to be
(48:38):
an upcoming edition and then anarticle that will be at an end
and a future edition. So when itcomes out I will let you know.
Julie Jackson (48:45):
Yes, I'd love to share him with this too. So and
I'll let you know when it's whenit drops. So good on will have a
great day. Thank you. Girls forme.
Lisa (48:59):
Yeah, Becky boy say goodbye. Maybe one of these days
when you guys come to anotherDisney. I'll bring him back and
oh my god, you guys will have tocome we'll probably stay at Fort
wilderness or something. And youguys will have to come over for
dinner or something. And
Julie Jackson (49:14):
well then you'll just be able to get me out of
the rig. I'll just be like Ilive here now. You know as much
as I love Disney, we did the bigtrip in January. And it's funny
because I came home and I said Ifound out the one thing that I
do not like about Disney and itwas like oh my gosh, Disney is
(49:35):
full of service dogs. I can'tpet service dogs. I love service
dogs. But I can't pet servicedogs.
Lisa (49:43):
as like, not only that, but it makes me like I mean I
just especially in like the heatof summer. I worried so much
about them and their feet and Ijust you know I know that they
have have a job and I'm surethat they take precautions and
all the things but like, I don'tknow, I've seen a few that I'm
(50:07):
just like that no need to havefall protection. Yeah, that
needs water. Like Did you meanto take it to the shade? For
follow you around and be yourservice dog? Yeah. Your service
human for your service dog.
Julie Jackson (50:21):
I'll be your service dog Sherpa. I'll do
exactly, yeah, I'll be happy.
Well, fortunately, we were therein January. So the weather and
everything bad. Yeah, it was itwas.
Lisa (50:33):
Yeah, yeah. So well. Good.
Well, I hope to see you allagain soon.
Julie Jackson (50:40):
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Hey, welcome to Happy Tales of Happy Tails, the
podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pups have
touched our hearts and ourlives. So for the next few
minutes, let everything else goand just listen and smile. I'm
your host, Julie Jackson. Thisweek I'm excited to share a
conversation with you with mysweet friend Lisa and her good
(00:27):
boy Malbec. These two are theultimate adventures. They have
taken so many cool tripstogether and have the coolest
setup. After you hear her story,you just might be inspired to
load your pups up and take themwith you on vacation this
summer. So sit back, relax,listen and smile so much for
(00:48):
doing this.
Lisa (00:49):
Of course, yeah
Julie Jackson (00:52):
So, first for everyone who doesn't have the
pleasure of knowing. Tell usabout Mobic introduce him and
then let her rip.
Lisa (01:02):
Oh well. Gosh, Malbec is a he is a rescue mutt. I like to
say he is probably one of themost most like Heinz 57 dogs
that did get his DNA done. Andhe has a little bit of I like to
say pretty much every dog exceptfor like the little dogs because
(01:25):
he ended up being a lot biggerthan I anticipated. I used to
work with rescue organizationsin Charlotte, North Carolina.
And I actually had a foster dogat the time and they sent out a
call for transport help me and Iwas like, I'll help transport
(01:46):
but I can't foster right now.
Like I'm getting my fosteradopted on Sunday, it was a
Friday, I was like, I just needa minute. And then they sent me
a picture of 11 puppies from a,a litter that was an accident
and, and Malbec was like in themiddle of the of the picture and
(02:08):
his puppy picture. I mean, hejust sort of looks almost like
he could have been a like St.
Bernard or a bernese mountaindog. And both of those looks are
tight, like dogs that I justhave always gravitated towards.
(02:29):
And so I was like, oh, no, like,
Julie Jackson (02:34):
this is not going to end the way I thought
Lisa (02:38):
Well, by the time I got there, one of my girlfriends,
rode with me. And by the time Igot there, we had convinced each
So what was his sister's winename?
other that I would at leastfoster two of the puppies and
Malbec. And this one would beone of them. And at the time, I
was on the hunt for my own dog.
But I was fostering in themeantime until I found it. And
(03:02):
my expectation was I was goingto adopt a like year old, you
know, puppies get adopted soeasily. So like a year old dog
that, you know, just might needsome training, which was totally
fine with me. You know, could beactive could go you know,
kayaking, and other things withme. And when I saw these
(03:26):
puppies, I basically told thefoster group, I was like, I
don't know who you have lined upto foster these dogs. But I'm
transporting so I get first. AndI'm taking these two with me.
And not only did I not want apuppy. I didn't think I wanted a
male I we grew up with allfemale dogs. So I just My uncle
(03:50):
had had a male dog and had sometendencies that were not my
favorite. And so I'd had justhad this perspective in my mind
that like I would always have afemale dog and so when I grabbed
him and I turned him over, man,and I was like, Well, I've never
had a male I've never I've hadnever even had a male foster I
(04:15):
always thought for females andand so I was like okay, I'm
gonna get him and his blondesister. So they were very
similar looking but one wasblonde and one was darker. And I
ended up fostering the two ofthem and I just I was gone or
like from that night like Ipretty much and this is this
(04:38):
this actually proves why like Iwasn't admitting it to myself.
However when so we ended upnaming we in rescue boys theme
the litters to keep track ofthem and we ended up theming the
litter the wind litter because Ilike wine and um When I took the
two of them, I was likedefinitely taking this one. So,
(05:03):
you know, he needs to be a wineI like. And they were like,
well, what's your favorite wine?
And I said, well back. So yeah.
And then his sister, one of myfriends actually ended up
adopting her may have gotten tosort of grow up together. So. So
yeah, that's how Malbec and Icame to be. And he is now six
(05:27):
years old. And he just traveledeverywhere with me.
His sister's wine name was oneof my least favorite wines,
actually. And I started tocorrect them when they gave it
(05:48):
to her. But they had alreadygiven some of the other females
some of the better names and Ijust, I wasn't like really
thinking very. I wasn't thinkingbut no offense to anyone if they
liked this line, but it'sMoscato for me,
Julie Jackson (06:07):
so what is her name now?
Lisa (06:10):
Her name now is Luna Wynter. Oh, Luna winter, spelled
W Y N T E R.
Julie Jackson (06:18):
O, but they still get to see each other.
Unknown (06:21):
So yeah, it's been a little while since I've
relocated. However, she now hasrelocated to Florida, not too
far from here. So because I'm inI'm right outside of
Jacksonville, Florida. And she'snow near like the Cocoa Beach
area. So Melbourne beach area,so not too far. Oh, so I expect
(06:43):
we will probably see them again.
Julie Jackson (06:47):
Well, he's so precious. And y'all have such a
sweet relationship. So what aresome of your favorite stories
about him? I'm sure you haveplenty.
Unknown (06:56):
Gosh, I could, I could go on and on. I mean, I think,
you know, he has just been sucha good travel partner. I have a
camper and I actually so like ifyou're if you do like camping or
anything like that, a lot ofcampers make their own like
stickers and stuff like that. SoI actually have my water bottle
(07:19):
here. And this is our stickeraround with Lisa. And it says
ROAM with Lisa and Malbec. Andit has my little camper at the
top. A little bright up here.
The little camper at the top.
And then it has me and Malbec inlike cartoon. And it's on my big
water bottle that I put all ofour life travel stuff on. But
(07:43):
yeah, he we he's basically my,my, my co pilot, and we have
been across the country threetimes. And he's probably more
well traveled than a lot ofhumans. I know. He's been to
probably more like nationalparks than a lot of humans. I
know and and pay Don't come atme people that know that
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National Parks are not super dogfriendly. You know, I've got a
camper that's fully like I canlive in it and everything else.
So we typically will drivethrough where we can and we find
the dog friendly areas. Butyeah, he he is the best travel
partner, he will go kayak, hewill pretty much he very, he
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knows like he's very trusting ofme, he will go kayaking with me.
If I tell him to get onsomething, even if he gives me
that look first, like I'm not sosure about this mom. Eventually,
he usually does. So he's prettyinteresting. People always
comment, like, I have a fewphotos of us like in front of
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the Grand Canyon sign or someother signs. And because I'm
typically a solo traveler withjust him to get photos, you
know, you have to get creative.
And so I'll put him up like atthe sign and then like, run like
1015 feet away so that I canselfie me but get the whole sign
in it. And he'll just sit thereand like, sometimes they'll cry
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a little because he's like, Whatare you doing like this thing.
But he'll stay there. And let metake a picture. And sometimes
it's so funny because thenpeople will like come up and
they'll be like, do you want usto get you guys together and I'm
like, this is sort of our thing.
Julie Jackson (09:35):
We have a deal.
Lisa (09:37):
Like this is sort of like we now have an album of all of
these photos and whether it's infront of a national park or just
a really fun like, you know, artyou know, people are doing a lot
of art like on walls in townthen like went to Cheyenne and
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which is really cool town by theway. Um And they had a big art
installation with Cheyenne onthe wall. And you know, we, we
either do the selfie thing or ifthere's somewhere to prop my
phone up, I now have like atripod. So I try to get some of
the more professional lookingphotos when I can, but
Julie Jackson (10:18):
I don't know. I really love the selfie thing
though with him back there.
Lisa (10:21):
Yeah, it's fun. I know.
And you can tell sometimes,because I'll like talk to him.
So I'm like, taking it's just,and I'm like, people are like
passing us on the side of theroad. And I'm like, talking to
him like taking a selfie.
They're probably like, what isthis girl doing? She's crazy.
But yes, I ended up with somefun, fun photos. So, so yeah, he
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has been you know, we go we wewent out. I was gone for gosh,
several months. One of the tripswhere we drove out through
Arizona and up into Utah andthen to Yellowstone and the
Tetons and then back up throughYellowstone to Big Sky, Montana.
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And Malbec came with me and I'lltell you what, like he he
thought the buffalo were veryinteresting. I have a video of
us in Yellowstone. Just drivingreally slow by like a group of
Buffalo. I'm not really sure. Orbison, I guess I don't think
it's bison in Yellowstone. I'mnot sure what like what the herd
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name of them are. But we'regoing by and, you know, they're
looking at him and makingnoises. And he's looking out
there. But he was not making apeep. He was just sort of like
staring at them. Like, what isthat thing? He kind of looks
looks, you know, over yourshoulder at me like, are you
still there? Are you going toprotect me? But yeah, it's a lot
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of fun. And it's always fun.
Because you know, because I'mable to travel with him. It's
fun, because a lot of peoplethat are on vacation and are
traveling have left their dogsat home. Yeah. And so oftentimes
people come up, Oh, can we petyour dog, we'd miss our dog so
much. And he'll usually he'llusually if I asked him to sit
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down, he'll sit down. And thenwhen people start to approach
him, he just lays down and rollsover. And it's like, you can pet
my belly. So he's a bit of aham. Sometimes if you ever see
us out, yeah. And, and it's funto allow people to have that
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little bit of, you know, tasteof home with their, you know,
missing their dog.
Julie Jackson (12:45):
Okay, and I'm that people. So thank you.
Lisa (12:47):
I know you are because I know we stopped while we were on
our run. We're both like, Shouldwe stop? Should we stop and we
were like the only oneseverybody else was worried about
finishing the run, the 10k orwhichever one it was that we
were like, and we're like, No,we're like golden retriever.
Stop. Okay, we're stopping
Julie Jackson (13:06):
Always stop for the dog. I know. Always stop for
the dog. So it's funny when youtalk about him rolling over for
so that people can pet hisbelly. We were actually in
London. And this lady camewalking down the street with
her, it was a little bittydachshund so cute, tiny little
dachshund. And we come walkingup and same thing. We were like,
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Oh my gosh, we miss our dogs.
Can we pet your dog? And it's sofunny, because just then we're
like, What's your dog's name?
dog's name was Pickle. And mygosh, we went to pet Pickle,
Pickle did the same thing andflipped over on her back. And so
ever since then we call itpulling a Pickle. Probably think
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we're nuts. Because we're thatfamily. And we'll be out. Yeah.
Oh, can we pet your dog and theydo that? Oh, they're pulling a
Pickle.
Lisa (13:56):
Oh that's so cute. You know, it's so interesting,
because Malbec has done thatsince he was a puppy. When I
first got him, I used to takehim to a local dog bar that's in
Charlotte called Lucky Dog. Andmy friend who ended up adopting
his sister would meet me upthere and I would bring both
puppies so that she could seethe puppy until until she was
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able to have it because it waslike during the holidays and
everything and people were goingout of town. And so I was like,
I'll keep both dogs until afterthe holidays. And so but I would
meet her there and from when hewas a little puppy. You know,
like when other dogs would comeup even. He would just roll over
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and like put his leg up. And sonow now he as an adult, he does
it to people. He doesn't do itso much to dogs anymore, but he
just do it to people. It's likehe trusts people more than dogs.
Like he doesn't really care He'sa sweet boy. Yes. So
Julie Jackson (15:02):
I know y'all have done so many different things.
Does he seem to have a favoritekind of activity or like a
favorite climate? Or is he justso happy to do whatever it is
that y'all are doing together?
Lisa (15:15):
I mean, I think honestly, like, like I said, he's just so
trusting of me that I think hepretty much just wants to be
wherever I am. And you know, Ithink a lot of people are
dealing with that, especiallyafter like, the pandemic and
being home for so long. I'mfortunate enough to still be
someone who is working remote,and I have the opportunity to go
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into the office, but for themost part, I am working remote.
And so you know, I have beenwith him every single day. So
like, he now knows, like, evenif I'm just getting dressed to
like, you know, like, outside ofjust like casual clothes, if I'm
getting dressed and like puttingmakeup on and stuff. He like
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comes and stares at me and likestarts just to like mope because
he like knows that I'm gonna beleaving him. Yeah. And I have
to, I have to either say, like,you know, buddy have to stay
here or, you know, I'll let himknow that he's allowed to come.
And then he like that, but Ican't say that too soon. Because
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then he'll drive me crazy, likecrying at the door.
Like you said, we were going,you gave me the sign.
Exactly. But I do think that heloves He really enjoyed being in
the climate, like, in the, like,West, not far west, but like,
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Arizona, Utah, Montana. And butI also think that had to do with
just how active we were duringthat trip. And you know, I
pretty I mean, it was just, heand I and I don't I don't like
to leave him even though my rigis set up to where it's
completely insulated. It has ACand heat and everything else. I
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don't like to leave him in itfor too long, you know, by
himself. And so I took himeverywhere. And he just really
enjoyed like he likes toexplore, like I like to explore.
So he gets excited, like jumpingout of the camper and like
seeing where we are and what'saround and especially if there's
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water, like do not get him nearwater if he's not allowed to go
in because he will go in and heloves to have swimming. And that
is probably his favorite. So welive at the beach now. And I
take him up to the to the beach,on our walks. But sometimes I'm
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like, I'm sick of the sand,buddy. We're not gonna go to the
beach today. And he will like,he knows every single beach
access and he'll just like pullme towards that. And I'm like,
I'm like, Alright, fine. I'mlike, That's mean. Like, we live
at the beach. Like you should beable to go to the beach. So but
yeah, he's definitely a lover ofwater and streams and anything
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that he can get into. He will doit.
Julie Jackson (18:18):
Sorry, I keep getting distracted because I
keep seeing him.
Lisa (18:22):
Malbec
Julie Jackson (18:26):
Hi buddy! There you are. Oh, there's a big
fluffy tip. I love yourfreckles. I love it. This isn't
my meeting. This is yours,Malbec. You just didn't know it.
Lisa (18:47):
Exactly, exactly. Yeah, so he's definitely a water dog. He
loves the water.
Julie Jackson (18:54):
So what do you think you've learned from him?
Lisa (18:58):
Oh, my, um, I mean, I think that he is just, he's just
so like, loyal. And I mean, hecan be I mean, again, because of
like, the pandemic andeverything. I think that he's a
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little he does have a little bitof an attachment problem, but
but that's okay. I don't mind.
You know, I think he's just, Ilove there's actually I can
picture it now because I wasactually just putting together a
couple of weeks ago a video ofsome travels that we've done
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together and we were in LakePowell in it's right on the
Arizona the Utah border. And wewere there and and I was working
East Coast time even though wewere on what coasts are mountain
time. And so I would have I keptthat, that routine. And so we
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would go walking in the morninglike really early. And there'd
be like nobody up. And at LakePowell, the water has gone down,
the water level is down so lowthat there's a huge beach. I
mean, it might be almost a mile,like wrong to get to the water.
And so I would just take him offleash, because there's nobody
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around. Yeah. And he would justtake off like, towards that
water. And like, he just is, hejust gets so excited when, you
know, he knows that, like, he'swith someone that he trusts and
he loves. And he just doesn't,he just, lets loose and just
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like, lets go and it's just sofun to see him, like, get so
excited. And I feel likeoftentimes we are, you know,
either afraid of like what otherpeople might think or what we
might look like, if here's thisgoofy kid, just like kicking up
sand and like just booking ittowards the water doesn't even
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like, look what's in the water.
Just it you know, and, and hedoes that, like coming out of
the camper. Like if anybody hasever had a camper before, when
you open the camper door. Like,it's like I can, like visualize
it perfectly. Because he'salways just like, right with me,
like, Let's go like, well, whatare we going to look at? And so
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like, he's just as adventurousas I am. And I think during the
pandemic, you know, that's whenI got the camper. And I don't
think I would have ever done itif I didn't have him. You know,
like he like, I don't know thatI would have just gone by
myself. I had a comfort like, inhaving him with me.
Julie Jackson (21:53):
Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't realize
that's when you got it. I just,I just thought that y'all been
doing this forever?
Lisa (22:00):
Oh, no. Yeah, no, like, I mean, because that's when, you
know, I was able to be soflexible with work. And so you
know, nobody was allowed to comeback into the office, they, you
know, I was, I didn't have anyan office to go to you know, and
I'm such an avid traveler that Istarted to get the travel itch.
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And I was like, well, the onlyway I can travel right now is if
I have something contained whereI can because bathrooms weren't
open, like public restaurantsweren't open. I had thought
about getting a camper van for along time. And I was like, when
else am I going to have thisopportunity to like work from
the road, but still be safe and,and be able to take him with me
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like, because, you know, like,standard travels that I was
doing before where you are, youknow, going on a plane going out
outside the United States orwhatnot, you can't take I mean,
you could but like you can'treally take easily your your dog
with you. And so I was like, Youknow what, I was like, This is
my excuse to just go ahead anddo it. And so yeah, I sold my
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house and bought a camper vanand Mark and I pretty much just
lived on the road for a while.
Julie Jackson (23:18):
I love that so much. It is such an amazing
story. And it was fun.
Traveling. I mean, in travelingoverseas, traveling anywhere is
great, but I'm very much anational park girl too. So I
wish I feel bad for people whonever have that experience.
Lisa (23:36):
You know, I'll tell you what, it also really did, I was
really nervous about thenational parks because I knew
that they were not as friendlydog friendly, and I was going to
have him with me. However, Iwill say there is nothing like
traveling via road trip, versusjust in and out in a plane.
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Because you see so much more. Imean, my friend and I were
actually driving back and I hadmy back. And actually her dog as
well with us at this. On thistrip. We were driving from
Arizona and headed towards WhitePlains National Park. And we
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passed by the proper tombstone,and like the town tombstone, and
like we saw the sign mural,like, you know, we were like, on
our way we kind of had aschedule because it was like
towards the tail end of ourtrip. And I was like, Well what
do you think and, and to havelike, I don't know, what do you
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think? And I was like, I mean,we're here. Yeah, like why not?
So we just like pulled off andit's not just right off the road
though. So that was a littlelike misleading but yeah, so we
just like pulled off and went toTombstone and like, you know
that you can't get With a normaltravel schedule, and I feel like
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I'm, I was one of those peoplewho sort of looked down on
because we, I'm from a militaryfamily. And so we moved like
every three years. And so I'veseen a lot of us, right, but
more as a youth and young adult,not as an adult. And so I sort
of was like I had, I had turnedmy focus to outside the US. And
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every year, I would do itoutside the US. And I kind of
looked down on doing travelwithin the United States. And
this just turned my opinion sodrastically. There are some of
the most beautiful states andareas in the United States. And
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I have been a lot of placesoutside the United States, and
the diversity in likeYellowstone, and Johanna, in
terms of what you can see. Andthe differences between just
miles from each other is soincredible that I do I agree
with you. I mean, it's justunfortunate that more people
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don't experience the US and areso focused on, you know, these
big luxury travel trips, becausethey're really missing out. And
yet some of these little townsthat you stop at in between are
just so amazing. And you justmeet the coolest people.
Julie Jackson (26:31):
That's so true. I when I was a kid, my parents, we
did a lot of road trips, and wehad the station wagon, and I
remember they would set me up inthe paneling. We did have one.
Yes, we did. And you know, weand my dad from work, they had
Suburbans to but that was beforeSuburbans were cool. That was
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when they were like utilitarian,you know, work vehicles. And
they put he put like a campermattress in the back. And I get
all set up with you know, all myentertainment. And we would set
out early one morning and I usedto laugh that it was like as
much ground as we could coverfor one week and then as much
ground back and Yeah, no kiddingwhen I was a kid if we'd you
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know, we'd stay in little hotelmotels along the way. And at one
point, I was like, Why did theyhave closets? Why do they have
drawers? I couldn't figure itout.
Lisa (27:26):
Who's actually staying that long?
Julie Jackson (27:30):
We would if we were there 12 hours. That was
you know, because and yes.
Lisa (27:35):
My dad was that kind of traveler. Yes. He was like he
was it wasn't a journey. Forhim. It was a like, point A to
point B like, like I'm on let'sget up. Now I want to say I have
ticket Have you taken on thoughsome of your dad's like travel
tendencies. Like, I'm like,people will be like, Okay, well,
what time are we getting on theroad tomorrow? I'm like, set
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your alarm for 430 in themorning. And they're like,
what?!
Julie Jackson (28:00):
This is vacation and we're like, yeah, that's
vacation.
Lisa (28:03):
Gotta get there. That's why I'm not spending the entire
day in the car. Okay, but at thesame amount of time, and I'm
like, No, we're gonna get thereand get up before everybody else
gets moving. You will thank mewhen we get there.
Julie Jackson (28:14):
Exactly! Well, and then to you know, like,
Well, okay, so And we've hadthis discussion, too, but like,
every time I see the GrandTetons the first time I see the
Grand Tetons, I cry. I mean,every It's so incredible. And
yeah, of course love Yellowstonetoo. And they're right there
together. Yeah. But I alwayskind of joke because I say
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Yellowstone, Yellowstone sogreat, because I can get my nerd
on. Because there's all thewildlife and the geothermal and
you know, everything.
Lisa (28:42):
But a geothermal are so cool.
Julie Jackson (28:45):
Amazing. But I'm like, I don't want to be rolling
into Yellowstone at two o'clockin the afternoon, you know,
getting into Yellowstone as soonas those gates open because
there's so much to see.
Lisa (28:56):
yeah. It's so funny, too.
Because, like, I one thing Ialso found out, you know, I, I
did the whole thing because Iwas traveling, I you know, I got
the park pass and, you know, allthe things and, and, and then,
you know, I was like asking oneof the park rangers, okay, like,
when when's the best time tocome? He's like, Well, you know,
like, we're open 24 hours. And Iwas like, what? And he was like,
Yeah, and I was like,Yellowstone, they said, they
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were like, We're open 24 hours.
And I was like, why are peoplein line then? And he's like,
it's just they want to get upand get their breakfast and
everything else. And I was like,oh, no, that will not be me.
I'll be here at four in themorning.
Julie Jackson (29:37):
I did not know that. You just taught me
something. Now we would get upearly every day and get through.
The last time we were there westayed in West Yellowstone. So
we were just like right outside.
Lisa (29:48):
I did too, yeah, yeah, and I love West Yellowstone. I do
Julie Jackson (29:51):
too. Did you happen to see right there
outside to the I'm gonna I'mforgetting the word but you It's
like the bear and Wolf. Yes. Ilove.
Lisa (30:04):
It's like a little like encounter like, well, it's like
educational or whatnot.
Julie Jackson (30:08):
Yeah. But did you go in and see it? Were you able
to go in?
Lisa (30:12):
I didn't go in.
Julie Jackson (30:13):
Yeah, if you ever get to do it, it's really cool.
Because basically, they take on,I'm not sure the story of the
wolves, but like the bears, thebears are all bears the like
kept going into neighborhoodsand communities and stuff that
would otherwise be euthanized.
And so it's kind of a rescue forthe animals.
Lisa (30:30):
but it's numbered. Yeah, I follow the Yellowstone, like
Facebook page. And so they'realways like, you know, posting,
and it's so fun. It's a goodfollow to, for anyone who's
interested, because if youfollow it throughout the year,
you get to see it in thedifferent seasons. And so it
also is a really good indicatoras to like, what, when you might
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want to go because you'll seepeople post all about, like,
what they do while they're thereduring the different seasons,
and all of that good stuff. Andwhat they see. And so you know,
it's a really, I definitelyrecommend doing stuff like that
if you're going to be headingout there. But yeah, I'll have
to go in and check it out nexttime. I did do a lot of kind of
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research just through like thatpage, and then like Google and
stuff like that beforehand, butwe just don't know what to do.
Julie Jackson (31:23):
Oh, crazy. Yes.
And we stumbled upon the bearwolf thing because we our hotel
was right across the street. Oh,yeah. I know exactly where you
were! Where, yes, we can hearthe wolves. And we were like,
What the heck? And of course,I'm like, Yeah, you know, it's
like big dogs. And yeah, you'relike coming. It was funny,
because I'm so easilyentertained, too. But when we
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were there, one of the bears,they would give them well, they
have one whole exhibit that wasfascinating to me, where they
turned the bears loose withevery different kind of trash
can imaginable to see like,which ones they would want to
and how long it took. And theyshowed they had them all out
where you could see like, thisis what a bathtime Yes, but one
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of the things they would do isthey gave one of them an igloo,
and he had the igloo cooler, andthey had it all strapped up and
everything. And, and he was outthere. And they were watching to
see what he would do with it andso crazy, but they had filled it
with like fish or something. Andit was strapped and he couldn't
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get the straps off. But hefigured out to pop the little
drain hole. And then he woulddrink the Yes. And then he would
submerge it and fill it up torinse and drink more. And then
he would submerge again.
Unknown (32:42):
That is so crazy. What a smart bear!
Julie Jackson (32:45):
Yes! It was nuts.
And so they do all those things.
And they watch them, you know,and they kind of learn. Yeah.
But like he had the and theysaid that that one guy. They
were like, Oh yeah, he's ourcooler guy. Anytime we have
anything like this. We give itto him because he's relentless.
And the other bears were kind oflike, okay, whatever. And he was
like rolling around in the waterthat cooler.
Lisa (33:04):
And he's like, I know something's coming out of it.
Julie Jackson (33:06):
Yes! Yeah. And I could have sat there all
afternoon and just watched himdo that. It was fast. Oh my
gosh, just to watch so cool.
Lisa (33:14):
Yeah, it's really animals are are incredible. I mean, they
really are like people. Like, Imean, I know this is like
blasphemous. But the people whoare like, I mean, it's just a
dog or like whatnot. And, andlike, they'll say, like, Malbec
won't remember his sister. AndI'm like, Are you out of your
mind? Like, yes, he will. Andthey I'm just like, how sad for
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you. They say you did not growup with some lack of something
that you that doesn't give youthat like perspective of
animals, because they're just soincredibly smart. I actually was
even just talking about like,dogs aside. I'm telling some of
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my friends, which they couldn'tbelieve we had a rat when we
were growing up. Oh, they're inCalifornia. They're so smart. I
was telling them a story abouthow we had had a parakeet before
it either flew away orsomething. Who knows? Yes, um,
we were told it flew away. Butwe still had its cage and we
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used that as the rat cage. Andso you know, a bird. Cage has at
least ours did the the door likelifted up. And the birds
couldn't figure it out, right.
But this rat would open thatdoor and get out. Well, we
figured out he was opening thedoor and getting out. And so we
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would put a twisty tie on it. Hewould undo the twisty tie and
get out. I mean, you would justcall him and you would like come
back, but like he would get out.
You think eventually he actuallydid leave. But yeah, he was so
smart. I mean, he's so smart.
I'm like, they can. How can youjust think these are just like
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things that don't have a month?
I'm sort of mind activity, youknow?
Julie Jackson (35:11):
Yeah. Well, and likewise to when they say that,
you know, they don't havefeelings, are they right? And
now yeah, now,
Unknown (35:19):
I was crying over some stupid show the other day and
Malbec came over I was so upsetand he was just like, Mom,
what's wrong? And I was like thedog died on the show or went
back isn't that so sad?
Julie Jackson (35:35):
I need a hug.
Lisa (35:38):
Come snuggle with Mama.
Julie Jackson (35:41):
Well, we are so Chuck and Barney the the two
wolf mixes the floofs.
Lisa (35:47):
I saw one walk by in the background. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Julie Jackson (35:51):
Every now and then you'll see like one of them
go over the back of the chair.
Lisa (35:55):
He's like just the ear and like the tail walk.
Julie Jackson (35:58):
That's why I leave the door open because
sometimes they'll come and puttheir heads right like Chuck
likes to get my devil there.
They do they come in. Hey,buddy. Hey. Buddy, I came this
way. Hear it? Can you want tocome up? You can come up. Oh,
he's going around. But it'sfunny because our little Roscoe,
that was our tiny little heeler.
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Barney was hilarious. BecauseBarney, do you remember the old
Looney Tunes? Oh my gosh, thecartoon with a yeti where the
Yeti would have him. Yeah. Andhe'd be like, Oh, I'm gonna do
it. Remember that. That wastotally Barney with Roscoe. And
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Roscoe would just be like, helpme out here. But I'd come in.
And I mean, Roscoe was older.
But Barney was so much biggerand I'd come in, and Barney
would like have his arm aroundRoscoe and just speak and then
and Chuck would spoon himsometimes to Roscoe would lay on
the floor of the corner of thebed and I come in and Chuck
would come and just wrap rightaround him. But But Barney, like
we used to joke we were like, Ithink Barney thinks Roscoe is
(37:06):
his dog. You know,
Unknown (37:10):
it was it like his stuffed animal. Yes. And
Lisa (37:12):
know, he knows they even say that. That if one if,
Julie Jackson (37:12):
Barney was like the Yeti with him. Well, back in
November, Roscoe got verysuddenly sick. And we lost him
and like Barney, that thatnight? Well, we lost Roscoe on
Friday, and on Saturday nightand Barney's nonstop. Like there
you can see that that wasBarney. He was they're nonstop
all the time. And Barney wasjust sitting at the back door,
(37:33):
just sitting looking out in thebackyard. And then Roscoe, he
used to always perched at thetop of the stairs that was kind
of surveying his kingdom. Andyeah, and he could kind of get a
especially if they're bondedlike that, that if you're able
little rest, you know, a littlerespite up there, it was a
little bit more peaceful. Andaround the corner. And Barney
was perched on the bottom step,all four feet, like lined up,
(37:55):
you know, like, all balanced.
And just like looking like hewas ready to spring. And it's
like, he was just looking atthat spot. Because he just knew
any minute Roscoe was goingaround that corner and be there,
he's gonna go up, you know, butit's so but you know, people
think, oh, yeah, they don'twhatever. But no, they
(38:23):
to have them, see after theother passes away, so that they
understand because they willjust like, Wait, like, look for
them, you know? And so? Yeah, Imean, I mean, you could never
ever convince me that that's notthe case. Because I mean, while
(38:44):
back used to after my friendadopted his sister. They would
be in the parking lot and mallback. And I would either be like
out at a brewery or like at thatdog bar. And I wouldn't have
even seen them yet. And Mobicstart, I could tell he's like,
go, I was like, somebody must behere. Like, I would tell my
(39:05):
friends. I'm like, somebody'shere that he knows. And sure
enough, she would come runningin and then he like just knew
and like, there's I was like,There's no way he could have
seen her before that. Like it'slike he could he either has a
very good sense of smell, or,well, I don't know, they just
(39:25):
have that like intuition orsomething. And I don't know, but
like he it was like, weird,because like, I'm not kidding.
He just started pulling me oneday when we were at this one
brewery in Charlotte. And all ofmy friends were like, What is he
doing? Because he's usually justlike, lays under the table. Like
it's pretty chill. And I mean,he was like pulling, pulling,
pulling. And then we get to thecorner. And their car goes by in
(39:51):
parks and she gets out of thecar and I was like, No, I'm
like, how? I'm like, did youguys like drive by with her?
head out the window or she waslike no. And I was like mama was
like pulling me over here. I waslike, it's just wild. I'm like,
he knows. It's indoor.
It's amazing.
It's amazing. Yeah. And whenLandry was born, I had four dogs
(40:14):
then. And one of them was Murphyand Murphy was a little. He was
blond, we think maybe like aborder collie lab mix. And
Murphy Bless his heart. Someonehad not been kind to him before,
or we rescued him. And so healways worried a lot of people,
right? Yes. And so Murphy hadalways been a little bit he had
(40:36):
a little bit of a timidity, youknow, he'd be kind of timid, a
little bit. Yeah. And so it wasreally funny. And it was
interesting to see how when webrought Landry home from the
hospital when she was born, howall four of them had different
responses to her. Sure. Like wehad a yellow lab, Daisy and
Daisy was funny because shewould like stick her head and
(40:58):
Landry swing and run forward andthen run backward and run
forward, backward, you know,with this week, what a big help.
Right? Right. You know, but justlike, I've watched her, I'm
watching her, you know, and thenwe had a black lab Kindel. That
was the sweetest thing thatKindel was very, like don't know
what to do. And I yeah, I don'tthink Kindel even notice Landry
was there for I know for awhile. But Murphy was so funny
(41:18):
because Murphy was always reallyserious. And it took us so he
didn't, he didn't show anyinterest in being like, like he
wasn't up sniffing on her. Hewasn't like Daisy, he didn't
have his head in the swing oranything. But then one day, I
noticed that from the day webrought her home, he laid across
(41:40):
the threshold of the door ofwhatever room she was in. Yeah,
he was
Lisa (41:47):
like, I have a job and it is to protect this little thing.
Yes.
Julie Jackson (41:52):
Yes. And and if you didn't know any better, you
would think he had no interestin her whatsoever. You know,
someone would think he was justtotally and and at first I kind
of thought that he you know, Iguess maybe like Kindel just
kind of hasn't noticed she'shere yet, or whatever. And then
all of a sudden, we realized oneday that because he had never
done that before. And hepositioned himself across the
threshold. And wait, no one gotYeah, she was in without yeah,
(42:16):
getting past him coming throughhim. Yeah, that's
Lisa (42:19):
so sweet. Yeah, Malbec does a similar I mean, he
usually, when it's just us athome, he's like, super chill, he
usually will come in at night.
And like, lay with me untilwe're really like, settled, and
then he like, moves to the endof the bed. And then eventually,
he just gets down. And then he'susually off the bed for a while.
(42:43):
And then in the morning, hecomes first thing comes back in
and Snuggles. But if I amsomewhere where there's multiple
people, or like if I'm over atmy parents or something like
that, he is he has to be in alocation where he can see where
everyone would be coming from.
(43:06):
And so hill at my parents house,for instance, they had that,
like most of their rooms are onlike you're looking at the
house, the left side of thehouse. So he sleeps in the
living room so that he can seethe front door and where
everyone's houses or houses.
Yeah, everyone's rooms are. Andlike if I go on vacation with my
friends, like sometimes I gowith a friend and our dogs to
(43:30):
Oak Island. And it's a four,it's a quad. And so it's set up
with two in two rooms, and thenall the living spaces in the
middle. And he'll fully with meat first and then he goes out
into the main area so that hecan see where everyone is he
doesn't like and he doesn't evenlike it. If we're out on the
(43:51):
beach and somebody else walksaway. He'll stare at them, like
the whole time like crazyperson. Because he's like, Wait,
somebody has left the circle oftrust. Or they go away. Talking
to you back here, like he neverwent back need you to return to
the circle. You don't have yourbuddy, you do not have your
buddy with you right now. Don'ttalk to strangers.
Julie Jackson (44:17):
What are you doing? What do you do?
Lisa (44:18):
Exactly? And save if someone tries to like enter the
circle before I tell him thatthey're okay. He'll bark at
them. So and he won't like he'llrun up and bark at them. And I'm
like, Oh, great. And I'm likeMalbec, you know, and I'll have
to like get him and introducethem and then he'll chill. But
like he'll let them know like, Idon't know who you are.
Julie Jackson (44:42):
Yeah, he's serious about his job.
Unknown (44:45):
Like I'm the sheriff in these parts. Okay.
Julie Jackson (44:49):
You said that's your nickname for him in it?
Lisa (44:51):
Yes. Yeah. So actually someone thought his name was
Sheriff at one point, because atthat at the end have dog bar we
used to go to? He would they hadthose uses plastic like, I, they
haven't met like dog parks andstuff now but they're like the
plastic like one side is stairsone sides like a ramp, you know,
(45:13):
like whatever. And so he wouldgo get up on top of it and just
stand on the top of it and likelook around. And like if dogs
were like playing too hard, hewould bark at them. And if they
didn't stop, he would go to themand bark at them. And I'd be
like, Oh, here we go Sheriffagain. And so and my friends
would be like, Oh, sheriffs onduty or whatever. And so then
(45:37):
one day, I don't even rememberwhat it was why? Why I was I
called him by his actual name.
And I was like, Malbec comehere. And somebody was like,
wait a minute, I thought yourdog's name was Sheriff. Oh, no.
Like, he just acts like thesheriff.
Julie Jackson (45:56):
Job Title.
Lisa (45:58):
His job he's on duty. So you know. Right? It's just like
when you take off a service dog,that's he can actually be
himself, you know, small backenters into like the dog park
and he is on duty.
Julie Jackson (46:13):
Got his little badge. Oh my gosh, that's the
best. Well, thank you so much. Ilove this. I love him. I love
y'all, your whole setup, yourrig and your lifestyle and
everything so
Lisa (46:35):
Well, we love it. We actually were just out in the
rig last night we went over to alocal park here. Because I don't
know about you guys, but it isspring break this week for the
kids and my niece and my nephewjust lived down the street. And
so my sister and her husband aretaking them to universal
tomorrow through Friday. And soI'm taking the rig down to go to
(47:00):
Universal with them onWednesday, and which is so
great. It's a big tip, if ever,so my sister and her husband are
staying on it in at the resort.
And um, you know, most placesyou can find like a state park
or something or a county parkand I found a county park for
that has a camp spot that's fourmiles away from Universal
(47:25):
Studios for $20 Absolutelycannot beat that. I was like,
Hey, I'm just gonna book it. IfI can go I can go if I can't I
need to work then that's fine.
So I booked it. So anyway, whileback and I were at in the rig
last night just cleaning it andmaking sure that everything was
(47:47):
good to go. So we'll be back inthe rig. Again. So it's been
it's been fun to have and beable to just kind of randomly
use it and take advantage ofthese locations that have
amazing opportunities forinexpensive and you have all
your stuff with you. Yes, andmost importantly your dog.
Julie Jackson (48:10):
Yeah. Well, and whenever the article comes out
you're gonna post
Lisa (48:17):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did recently get one so mobile I
can I are in a it just startpicture. It's in it right now.
Actually, yeah, just one of ourpictures is in it right now.
It's a magazine, but we haveanother photo that's going to be
(48:38):
an upcoming edition and then anarticle that will be at an end
and a future edition. So when itcomes out I will let you know.
Julie Jackson (48:45):
Yes, I'd love to share him with this too. So and
I'll let you know when it's whenit drops. So good on will have a
great day. Thank you. Girls forme.
Lisa (48:59):
Yeah, Becky boy say goodbye. Maybe one of these days
when you guys come to anotherDisney. I'll bring him back and
oh my god, you guys will have tocome we'll probably stay at Fort
wilderness or something. And youguys will have to come over for
dinner or something. And
Julie Jackson (49:14):
well then you'll just be able to get me out of
the rig. I'll just be like Ilive here now. You know as much
as I love Disney, we did the bigtrip in January. And it's funny
because I came home and I said Ifound out the one thing that I
do not like about Disney and itwas like oh my gosh, Disney is
(49:35):
full of service dogs. I can'tpet service dogs. I love service
dogs. But I can't pet servicedogs.
Lisa (49:43):
as like, not only that, but it makes me like I mean I
just especially in like the heatof summer. I worried so much
about them and their feet and Ijust you know I know that they
have have a job and I'm surethat they take precautions and
all the things but like, I don'tknow, I've seen a few that I'm
(50:07):
just like that no need to havefall protection. Yeah, that
needs water. Like Did you meanto take it to the shade? For
follow you around and be yourservice dog? Yeah. Your service
human for your service dog.
Julie Jackson (50:21):
I'll be your service dog Sherpa. I'll do
exactly, yeah, I'll be happy.
Well, fortunately, we were therein January. So the weather and
everything bad. Yeah, it was itwas.
Lisa (50:33):
Yeah, yeah. So well. Good.
Well, I hope to see you allagain soon.
Julie Jackson (50:40):
Thank you so much for joining me today. I know
that you are busy. And I reallyappreciate that you chose to
spend some of your time with me.
So let's do a little bit ofbookkeeping before we head out.
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