Just to give you a little update. A friend of mine who lives in Cape May, NJ saw a sailboat with a “Gray Four Legged Creature” rounding the point and heading into the Delaware Bay.
I’m not sure, but I think this could be Basil. I haven’t heard anything, and it’s really hard to […]

Does it shock anyone at this point that Basil’s gone missing? On Wednesday, October 18th, Basil left Nova Scotia to head south towards Philadelphia where the intention was to meet up with Joe Hauckes. I should have asked someone how long a sailboat trip would take, but I didn’t. And, so far, I haven’t heard […]

It has come time to move Basil further on his journey and send him to Derek Andrews in River John, Nova Scotia. Getting all that luggage packed has only been surpassed by the amount of cajoling I have needed to do to keep him moving.
Basil wanted to stay a little longer and tried to […]

Basil’s arrived in Washington, DC awaiting his connection to Savannah, Georgia. While waiting he called me to update me on the flight.
After our little chat earlier in the day, where I asked Basil to cool his jets just a touch, he decide to buy some books at the Chicago airport. Great news! He mumbled something […]

I told Basil I’d be on vacation in Vancouver and flying back over the weekend, but did he listen? Of course not! And so upon my return there were about 500 phone messages that all started something like, “Hey Ben, where are you?”
It seems as time passed the messages got a bit more desperate…“Um, […]