Better than Wonderful and Cats are Smarter than People

So, we got ready to get on the road yesterday. It is now about 5:45 AM and I am sitting in the lounge area of a Hampton Inn in Winchester, VA where we spent the night. Winchester is a nice small city, a college town, although I forget the name of the school here.

So as we tried to get a reasonable start, we had the car packed and all that was left to do was take our cat, Buster, to this place called Puppy Tails or Tales, where he stays when we go away for a long stretch. I guess as one gets older, we ask our friends to do less and realize that as adults, we have to pay for certain things. Also, that way, friends will be there when things don't quite work out. Like getting Buster to Puppy Ts. He knew something was up and took off for our cellar (not to be confused with a basement). There are lots of hiding places down there and nothing we could do was able to get him to come out, not food, not even the little laser toy that he loves to chase around (maybe he really doesn't like to chase it around, after all). So we decided we had to get going. We made arrangements with a friend to bring Buster to Puppy Ts later on or today (which was at that point, tomorrow).

We hit several intense thunder storms in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. I took a couple of pictures and videos with my cell phone just because I could and I figured it could turn out to be something to write about at another time.

It was better than wonderful to finally see some sun after all of the gray and rainy days at home. The folks at this Hampton Inn are very nice. I am getting used to being an AARP member. After we checked in we looked for something to eat. As we were pretty tired, we opted for KFC; it has been many years between KFC visits. While it was not better than wonderful, the grilled chicken breast dinner (1 piece) was pretty darn good. All in all, dinner for two for a little over $11 was not bad at all. And so far, so good on the digestion side of things. That is always a plus.

Hopefully more pictures and videos to follow, and I have to get one of Buster..