I wasn't needed much today. The weather cleared up on the man's cross country trek, and he made much better time on the interstates. Only a few times did I need to help him find gas stops, and once I had to assure him that yes, Kansas has made numerous sections of the interstate into toll roads. The satellite maps look so different out west than they did for yesterday's section. Once you get to the western half of Kansas, and especially in eastern Colorado, from the air the land is covered in green polka dots. Most of them are of uniform size, and occasionally a large one will pop up among the sections. While I was searching for a travel plaza in eastern Colorado, I found one that really didn't match all the others. It was only three quarters of a circle, and the other quarter was a slope interrupted by a channel of water. It looked like a very odd profile of a man. Apparently, I am either very creative, or very easily amused.
I lived up to several of my promises today, although one might have been construed as a threat. Before I set about cleaning house, doing many of those things I couldn't do for months while I was sick or recovering from surgery, I bathed Fat Jackie. She needed it, but I had to wait until I could lift her comfortably. Then, not merely as an apology to her dignity, I opened the back door and let the Pride have their first unescorted day in the Park. It makes me a much more popular figure around this house, during those months of the year when the weather cooperates and the door can stay open. Days like this will happen often over the next two months, until the heat sets in.
I'm waiting for the word that the man has arrived. At last report, he was on the outskirts of Denver. Almost all of the way there. I can't imagine how tired he must be right about now. Makes me tired just thinking about it.
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