Day 1 - Toronto to Chicago

We finished emptying the house and loaded the remaining belongings in the car. You could tell that Koda was worried he would be left behind. He was constantly attached to us. If we went outside, he came out. If we went in, he followed. This happened a lot as we were constantly loading the car and moving other stuff out. He knew something was different.

Once he was in the car, he was great. He was relaxed and stayed that way through the 10 hour journey on day 1. We have discovered that he is a "dog with good taste" - he is more relaxed in our BMW X5 than any other vehicle we have had. Hmmm....

Even though he is relaxed, he is not completely so. For a dog who spends most of his day sleeping, he can still spend 10 hours in a car and never put his head down and never sleep. So while he is relaxed (no heavy panting or whining), he is not completely so.

Even in the hotel, he was not freaked by the automatic opening doors, the glass walled elevator, nor the open atrium hotel which looks down on the restaurant (all of which I would normally expect). He was showing signs of curiosity....is this our dog?

We crossed into the US at Sarnia, over the Bluewater bridge, with Lake Huron to the north.