This road trip would go a lot faster if the dog could learn how to use a funnel.

New Mexico is okay.

Also - and I realize this is an Angeleno thing to say - what is the deal with all the biting bug-mosquito-chigger-biting-biting things?  The problem is all this wild, open space.  In Los Angeles, where every last blade of grass has been properly tucked under a layer of solid concrete there are no bugs.  Correlation or causation?