And there the little dog was, sitting up on the front seat in her St. Patrick' s day outfit, peering nearsightedly out of the window at all the commotion. After two months of separation from her family, after a week on the road, after traveling across five states for 1 500 miles in the company of strangers, Snoopy' s odyssey was over.
Nancy got to the truck first. In the instant before she snatched the door open, Snoopy recognized her. Barking wildly, she scrambled across tile seat and into Nancy' s arms. Then Joe was there, and the children. Laughing, crying, they hugged Snoopy and each other. The family that didn' t give up on even its smallest member was back together again.
托普斯一家站在路邊,眼睜睜地看著他們的卡車發動機顫抖著熄了火。南希和喬夫婦帶著他們的兩個孩子,12歲的約迪和15歲的馬修,還有老狗史努比,在離家1 500英裏遠的懷俄明州的一條公路上,就這樣陷入了困境。就連擅長修車的喬對他們這輛破卡車都無能為力。那隻患有白內障的小狗用晦暗的眼神焦慮地望著家人們的臉。
托普斯一家正在旅途中。5個月前,喬的一個外甥告訴他說納帕山穀有工作可幹,於是他們便決定冒險去看看。他們帶著孩子和史努比從印第安納州的韋恩堡的家出發,趕往加利福尼亞州。可到了那裏,喬並沒如願地找到倉管工作。南希和孩子都非常想家,而且他們的積蓄也快用完了。到了1月份,原來的美好願望都落空了,於是他們決定返回韋恩堡。
卡車隻能將他們帶到懷俄明州的羅克斯普林斯這麽遠了,他們現在唯一的辦法就是把卡車以25美元的價格賣給舊貨商,然後搭便車去長途客運站乘客車回家。然而到了車站,迎接他們的有兩個壞消息:一是他們手中的錢根本不夠買四張去韋恩堡的車票;二是車上根本不允許帶狗。