Those of you who remember Nola before she was Nola are pretty confused by her name change, so here's the story: Initially when we adopted Nola, her name was already Jordan.  It was a bit strange to have a pet dog with the same name as my brother, but we didn't think it would cause any conflict because we lived in the Dominican Republic at the time and my brother Jordan lived in Los Angeles.  Then Jordan got sick, and people who didn't know my brother's name was Jordan would see my facebook updates and ask if my dog was ok.  Then we moved back to the States and Robbie's brother married a lovely girl named Jordan.  So, between the three Jordan's things were getting pretty confusing.  So we used going on the trail as the perfect excuse to finally change our dog's name: we decided to give her a "trail name".  Since she is from the DR, we wanted to give her a spanish name, so we named her "Chinola", which means passion fruit - one of our favorite treats in the DR.  So we call her "Nola" for short.  And that is the story behind Nola's name.