planning a mini-trip and some more travel

At times, Robert and I have travelled once a month, sometimes more often -- fairly frequently. I don't think that Robert and I have been away since dance camp in September. During the last month and a half, I've felt unable to travel at all, even for an overnight, though Robert has gone away on his own a surprising number of times.

It seemed like Juliet required too much care and her health was too iffy for us to rely on the people who board her, even had they been willing to take her and take on the responsibility. I'm sure they would have been totally capable of caring for her.

But even before she got sick, they were starting to get really nervous about having her die in their care, and who can blame them, with a 21-year old cat. (I, of course, would have been fine; at least she would have died in excellent hands, literally and figuratively.) There was a time recently, though, when they asked me to sign all sorts of paperwork -- again -- saying that I would not hold them responsible for anything that happened to Juliet while she was in their care. Understood, unnecessary, but message received.

Anyways, I think Robert sensed my itchy feet. He's offered to arrange a short trip to Provincetown, one of my favorite haunts, in a few weeks. It'll be so nice to be there. We're staying at a guest house owned by two of our favorite B&B owners (we stayed at their other place several years in a row). Two of our friends will be there that weekend, and I expect some other regulars will show up too. (I of course have this nagging feeling that I should be calling the cat boarding place to make arrangements.)

While there, we'll probably spend time with friends, go to Mark's beach, haunt the galleries and Art Museum, eat great food, go to church (the only UU congregation I know of that doesn't need a Welcoming Congregation designation ), and walk for miles.

We have some other trips planned, too. We'll be going to Egypt later this spring, and I'll be delivering a paper at a conference in San Francisco in April. We're likely to go to spring dance camp. And then in late summer, we'll go to the Berkshires twice and probably go to Colorado (I briefly, Robert for longer?) to help celebrate Roberts' 'rents' 50th anniversary.

I imagine, too, that at some point, we *will* be calling the cat boarding place. Not sure when there will be more kitties in the house. Not quite yet, that's all I know.