On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.
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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
From valued commenter Aimai, who should really submit some pictures of her adventures avec famille while exploring classic English/Shakespearean haunts!
Seen in the loo at the British Museum yesterday.
Wherever you go, there you are, Taken on 2017-08-02, British Museum Ladies’ Loo.Thanks to the unknown graffitist who took time out in a crowded loo to make her sentiments known. I felt right at home.
Reminds me of anti-Reagan graffiti I used to see in England, Germany, France, and Switzerland in the 1980’s.
Today, pictures from valued commenter Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes.
This kitten was my Father’s Day present. One of my wife’s coworkers found him in a park – he was about 5 weeks old and malnourished – just a little bag of bones, wormy and wobbly. The dog took to him immediately.
Friends
Taken on 2017-07-19
Kentucky
They spend a lot of time like this – I think the cat thinks that the dog is his mother.
Cuddle Time
Taken on 2017-07-23
Home
There’s a lot of play and a lot of cuddling.
Such a face!
Taken on 2017-07-20
Home
Me holding the cat
Thank you so much Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes, do send us more when you can.
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Anne Laurie
Great pics, Comte. Tervs are herding dogs — you’ve finally given him a living toy to herd all for his very own!
(And Mr. Tux looks like he’ll grow up to be a very fine cat, and probably even tolerant of the Terv’s bossy behavior… )
Mary G
Aww cuddle buddies in the chair.
raven
Nice critters!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
If I’m holding him, he’ll purr a bit. He purrs like crazy the moment the dog gets close and he gets desperate to see him.
Funny thing is, when he plays with the dog, he holds his mouth open like the dog – they do a lot of mock biting, but nobody gets hurt despite the size difference.
Quinerly
Love the pictures. Thanks!
Amir Khalid
The sentiment is no surprise: people the world over feel that way about Trump. But the penmanship on that ladies’ room wall is really good for graffiti.
Love the doggy and kitty pictures.
Rock Guitar For Dummies arrived this morning. I’m currently working on my B minor chord. My left pinky has been weakened and shortened by gout, but is a far lesser problem than I’d feared. It’s my index finger that’s making this chord shape hard for me. But I know I’ll get it if I keep working.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Anne Laurie:
We had an elder cat when we got the puppy, so he was pretty familiar with how cats worked – lots of pointy, hurty parts if the grumpy old cat didn’t want to be bothered or if play got too rough. When our youngest daughter got a cat, she brought him over fairly frequently from the time he was a kitten and we’d cat sit. Good part is that when the new kitten came into the house, we were doing some extended cat sitting, so baby cat got to learn the way of cats all at the same time he was learning to be a dog…
schrodingers_cat
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: They are so cute together! Thanks for sharing.
rikyrah
The cuddle picture was adorable???
Elmo
Oh dear Lord the Terv is *magnificent*.
Elizabelle
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Your dog thinks you got him a pet. They are cute together.
Like the graffiti too.
Elizabelle
And those kitten whiskers and eyebrows. Pai Mei!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Elizabelle:
That’s what I thought, too! Got vetoed on that name, though.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Elmo:
Thank you! He’s a super sweet dog, but a bit of a bed hog.
satby
Such sweet pictures! I agree with Elizabelle, your pup is happy to finally have a pet of his own.
MomSense
I’m so envious that you have a dog who likes cats. The woman across the street has an evil calico who struts on the cat walk (the path to my front door) in front of my dog’s wide screen tv (the living room bay window). This cat walks back and forth swooshing her tail with a flourish which makes my dog go nuts. She sounds like Cujo.
Also sing it anonymous British museum goer sister! Fuck Trump!
Tazj
I love the pictures of the cuddly dog and kitten. What a beautiful pair!
The pictures remind me of my dearly departed dog and cat who enjoyed many years together. Yes, dogs and cats can live together.
My husband had a sweet ginger tabby from before we met. We got an 8 week old shepherd/husky mix shortly after we moved into our house. They never cuddled or napped together but once the cat got used to the puppy he would follow him everywhere he went. When the dog was bigger he would lay down and let the cat jump all over him and nip at his ears.
satby
My late, lamented Biggie originally was very friendly with cats, especially my now old guy Wookie. They would sleep together under the table in my house in Chicago. But when I moved to MI and got Hershey, I had to create a safe space that was cat only, so the cats got a catio and a kitty door from a basement window. I know they enjoyed being outside in a safe space, but Wookie would look at Biggie sitting in the dog run sometimes, and I would wonder if they missed each other. I would walk Biggie over on a leash to visit occasionally ☺.
J R in WV
The first time we got a second dog, we very specifically gave the new puppy to the elder dog for her very own. So Muffin taught Annie (little orphan Annie) everything a dog needed to know. Muffin was really smart, and I’ll never forget the first time we took them both for a trip in the car.
Muffin jumped in the back seat, and back out, three times. Then she nudged Annie to do what she had just done. Toilet training took 20 minutes !!
Wyatt Derp
Just got back from a NASCAR race. In the bathroom someone wrote “TRUMP” and someone else (not me i swear) followed up with “sucks d**k”. At a NASCAR race! When you’re losing NASCAR…