Hi everybody! My Human has been really busy so I will tell the story of our trip to see the Big Woolly Ones, places my Human calls "Ghost Towns," and a place that honors Ghosts that honor coyotes (that's me!).
We went on those big Two Wheel Things. We left early in the morning (I was the first one awake as usual). I got to ride on a big fat Two Wheel while my Human rode on her skinny Two Wheel. It was fun! First we stopped to feed both Two Wheels and then we stopped to feed the Humans. I took a nap.
They rode on that ground with no grass that their Two Wheels ride on (they sometimes fall down when they get on grass, especially mud and sand) a long ways until they came to one of those places my Human calls "Ghost Town." She said the first one is called "Antelope". I heard stories from the pack Elders about Antelopes -they were fast and the pack had trouble catching them to eat- but this didn't look like food on four legs. She told me that people named their town after the Antelope that used to live there before they were all hunted out by human hunters.
A big human in a big noisy Four Wheel box stopped to talk to my humans and told us that this building was built in 1898 - whatever that means. It was a food store, a place where humans gave stuff in return for food. (why don't they just go out and catch it?)
The Two Wheel things my humans ride on stood next to this metal box. My Human said it was once a 'car wash'. I guess that's where the big moving boxes take a bath. I wonder if they swallow water like my pack does sometimes.
We got back on the Two Wheels and rode on ground covered with small stones to this place. My Human told me it was built by the Conservation Corps and was a 'gymnasium.' I guess that's a place where a bunch of humans play with balls, throwing them into a basket and running around. I remember doing something like that with a rat; us young pups would catch a rat, run around and try to take it from each other. It was fun! But we could eat the rat after wards. My Human said they don't eat their play things, like balls. Seems a waste; you can eat rats after playing hard.
I went for a ride on Many Wheels! (he has many, many wheels at his house!)
She likes things like these wood pieces. I'm not sure why. She said something about "texture, shape and shadows". I just sniffed around some while she used that little box thing that captures time and space.
She said this one looked like a face.
We got back on the Two Wheels and rode to another Ghost Town. This one is called "Buffalo Springs." I remember what 'buffalo' are, but I didn't see any. My Human told me that they used to travel through here before they too were hunted and almost all gone.
There are two big stones with stories on them, but we forgot to load one of the pictures last night. We will have to do that tonight because they tell different stories. We also found this tiny stone with stuff on it. It is very old and my Human said it is hard to read, but she called it an old 'survey marker'.
There is not much left here but a few giant boxes that humans live in. This one is a place where they gather to do things. The humans said the sign reads that the local humans make a noise called 'music.' I wonder if it's like the music that me and my pack used to make, or like the pack I now hear outside our cave every night.
There was one of these near the road. I know they are called 'horses,' but I know that they are food, too. My Human will not let me eat those. I wanted to chase it anyway.
Back on the Two Wheels and we rode a long way (I took a nap) to a place called 'Red River'. It was red all right but not much water there. Mostly sand. We stopped on the side and stretched; I had to wake up. I caught a view through the skeleton of the magic ground that goes over the water.
My Human said we are in a different place called 'Oklahoma', where the Old Ones still live. She has told me stories about the Old Ones and so have the Elders. The Old Ones and us coyotes used to be friends. I don't know why that changed, but it did long ago. That is why we started hunting at night instead of during the day as we always had since we were Created (so the old stories say).
I sat here for a while and tried to sniff things.
I couldn't see much!
After resting (I wasn't tired!), we all got back on the Two Wheels and rode again. We got rained on a little bit and we stopped to eat, too. And got rained on a bit more. Not bad though.
After a long time (so it seemed) we got to where we were going to stay for a few days. I remembered those smells!!! Whoooooweeeee!!!!! We were back on the prairies and mountains!!!!!!
Yea!!!!!!
(okay, have to nap now)