Cross Country Safari . . . Maybe

Cross Country Safari . . . Maybe

A little off the subject, but I wanted to let readers know we will be traveling (I think) next week. I will have all my writing comforts with me, but I don't know how much time I'll have to write.

The family has been waffling back and forth for a couple of months now trying to decide whether we will make our annual trip (although it's been two years, not one, since our last trip) to visit relatives in Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Just to make things a little more interesting, we are also planning a stopover in Paris, Texas, just because ... well, just because.

Our preference is to use the RV for such long trips. We bring along a few cats to keep us company and enjoy the rituals of a leisurely drive and nightly stops at each RV park. Our responsibilities to our foster cats as well as our own brood have put some constraints on how long we can be away this time around. We have two cats on medications. We are also concerned that our foster cats will backslide on the progress we've made socializing the skittish ones if we are away from them for too long.

We've settled on three weeks as the maximum time we can be away. "If" we go, we will have a lot of help from some great friends who'll be coming by the house regularly for cleaning, feeding, and playing. While we know they'll do a great job, we have a parent's worries for our four footed kids that will be left at home. To cut down the travel time and give us more time for visiting, we are taking the car this time. Two cats, Jonesie and Jackson, and our dog Sheila will be coming with us.

We are less than a week away from our planned start, and we have done most of what we need to do to be ready. Mostly. Maybe. Umm, well  . . .  We still haven't pushed the "GO" button, yet. Two days ago one of our younger cats came down with the sniffles. He seems to be getting better, though we are keeping a close eye on him.

Oh, I do have a little bit of news from the Writer's Conference. They are still compiling and editing the audio from the conference, but expect to have that done in about two weeks. By the time we get back from our trip I should have it.