I'm doing okay., thank you for asking. After having Indy cremated, I took her ashes back to Virginia the weekend of December 7th (FWIW, I had no issues with the TSA, carry-on). Two of my college housemates & another good friend of mine drove down to Goshen, VA to a campground near the Calf Pasture River & scattered her ashes down there. It was a campground I used to take her too when I was in college & need to "get away from it all".

I actually remember one time we went down there (after college) & it started raining so bad that the backpacking tent I brought started to soak through. So, I gathered up as much as I could & went for the back of my pickup truck with her. I had a cap on the truck, but it turns out that the last time I took it off & put it back on, I didn't line up the cap with the rails very well & I woke up in the morning with Indy lying on my chest because we were in about 2 inches of water in the back of my truck (due to the angle I was parked). We ended up driving to the nearest parking structure I could think of (the JMU stadium parking garage) and drying out there for a few hours before contiuing on the trip.

When I got her cremated, the place I went to took a hair clipping & a paw print & matted it (with space for a picture) and a copy of the Rainbow Bridge poem. Although I haven't decided for sure or not, I was thinking of getting a tattoo of Indy's paw print with the words "Fare you well" (from Brokedown Palace, one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs - and a song I've found myself listening too - partially because it's a beautiful song & partially because I scattered her ashes in a river & partially because the town's only real restaurant, has a weeping willow near the river & it's a well known tree in the town - which probably doesn't make sense unless you've spent a lot of time in Goshen, VA). I haven't fully decided on the tattoo as yet - I've got one other one & have been thinking about getting a second for a while, so this may be it - as I've said before, Indy was a hell of a dog...