Sunshine is not too fond of riding in the car and he doesn't like new experiences or hiking in new place or places with real wildlife like bears or with other people around. So today we took our dogs, Sunshine and Blossom, to a camp ground near Estes Park to scope out sites to go with our RV.
He salivated all the way up and I really regretted not giving him some ginger for motion sickness. I knew just how he felt since I was getting motion sick also. Then the poor boy did not want to get out at the three campgrounds. Then sometimes he didn't want to get back in. Taking Sunshine any place requires alot of patience and an upbeat attitude.
Once we extracted Sunshine from the car he seemed to relax a bit or at least show an interest. However he was still pretty frightened.
He's still not thrilled to be here.
Sunshine: This is more my style. Lets get away from the road and go through the forest.
Sunshine: Back to the roads again, I guess I have to make the best of it.
Sunshine: I love the rocks!
Sunshine: Ok, we'll keep moving.
Now this is more like it says Sunshine. He likes exploring rocks and natural areas. He just doesn't want to see anybody else or anything man made like roads, cars, picnic tables or fire rings.
Sunshine: Yep, could do this all day.
Sunshine: Mom says we have to look at camp sites. Bah humbug.
This one looks promising says Sunshine.
Sunshine: Or this one.
The dogs: We both like this one.
Max marks one with a level parking area and a good view on the GPS so we can find it later.
Sunshine says, I'd rather explore.
Blossom just loves it all!
Blossom runs and runs until her tongue is dragging.
This is a good one!
Not sure on this one, but I'm going to jump in that snow says Miss Blossom.
This one looks good too.
Sunshine says a wild critter went by here.
Sunshine: Ohh, ohh, I wanna go down this trail but Mom won't let me!
They are all starting to all look pretty similar say the dogs.
Sunshine: But we keep looking.
He seemed to enjoy exploring a bit but he really wanted to go off in the wilderness and not follow the roads to look at the spots. All the campgrounds we looked at are still closed so we parked outside and walked the roads to take photos of ones we thought we'd like. I'm not sure how far we walked but the dogs were exhausted afterward.
We try to make any outing fun for Sunshine by stopping at McDonalds and getting him a burger with no bun or sauce and this always seems to perk him up.
It was hard not to think how much our two recent foster dogs would have loved this outing. Thankfully I think they both went to couples who will take them hiking and camping so they should be getting their own outings. I hope Sunshine starts to enjoy these more since it is difficult to force him to go along when he doesn't really seem to like it.
