NB Day 20 – Guinness

This is the last day of our layover in Palmetto Bluffs, and I’ve had an opportunity to spend a lot of time with Guinness:

• He walks with me
• He sleeps with me
• He rides in the golf cart
• He loves to run BESIDE the golf cart
• He runs beside my bicycle, both on and off the leash

This stop has given me time to acknowledge how much I owe him:

• My dog park friends in Key West were very kind to me – I wouldn’t have met them without Guinness.
• I also love the friends I made in the marina; again, it was Guinness who facilitated our meeting.
• All the other folks I met in Key West and Florida: Guinness.

He makes friends wherever he goes.

He never fails to lead me down a side street that I might have missed.

And he does it all with such exuberance: he literally jumps for joy at the prospect of a walk.

In archaic English, he is a boon companion.