(Phrase first heard in Bob Seger’s song “Turn the Page.”)
Not quite home yet, but I will be tomorrow. Currently, I’m in a motel in Janesville, Wisconsin. I’m only five hours from home, but please refer to the title of this post for why I stopped here for the night. 🙂
What have I been up to since last I posted?
- I spent more quality time hanging out with Brigitte and the Little Dudes. Waaah! I wish they lived lots closer!
- I went to dinner at Lorraine’s house with Brigitte and got to meet Lorraine’s family and the famous Kitten Chow! Waaah! I wish they lived lots closer!
- At Lorraine’s, I experienced the tasty Canadian phenomenon of Swiss Chalet chicken.
- I met Lea! Waaah! I wish she lived lots closer!
- I rode the subway and the GoTrain.
- I met MamaTulip! Waaah! I wish she lived lots closer!
- My love for Kuroi Neko has increased tenfold.
- I saw Niagara Falls. Whoa. There will be pictures at some point. (When you see signs that say “Unusual mist conditions”? You better believe them!)
- I spent the night at a motel in London. Ontario, that is.
- That was the first time I’ve stayed in a motel room that didn’t have art on the walls.
- Perhaps they realized that no art could possibly complement the brilliantly patterned bedspreads. (My eyes! My eyes!)
- I was happily surprised to not have a wait at the US-Canadian border in Detroit Windsor.
- I made the border guard guy laugh when I declared my five gf beers.
- I’m still bummed that they don’t stamp passports for the US-Canadian border.
- And… I’m creating a post that doesn’t have a picture of Chaos or Mayhem in it. Fear not – today we have guest black kitty Gandalf.
“Rumour has it on blackkitties.net that you are in so much trouble when you get home.” -Gandalf
Five beers? What, they don’t sell six-packs in Canada?
Or did you, um, indulge?
You didn’t get your passport stamped at the border? When we visited Winnipeg last year we were granted visitor visas that were good for a month. I found that incredibly amusing at the time. Still do for that matter.
Oh, yes, I suspect that you are in BIG trouble at home!
I’m thinking I’ve had my passport stamped at the northern border. Coming home from Montreal in June I made the border guard laugh when she asked us about drugs, alcohol, or firearms. I said, “No. We’re boring that way.”
Looks like you are having a great time! Hope the kitties forgive you.
I love Black Kitties, but Kobe would like to know if Black Doggies can get a little love too?
I completely understand the “strung out on the road thing”.
Did you ask the border guards if they could stamp your passport, cause maybe they have them but don’t often use them?
Yeah, there’s even a rumor on greykitties.com that you’re in big trouble when you get home. 🙂 It sounds like you had great fun though!
oh my Gsndalf, I hope that you are not a true fortune teller.. Chris deserves a week “off”. ( free of retribution from cat-roomies)
Love that you made the border guys laugh with you GF beer declarations.
It’s good to travel, and it’ll be good to be home.
Drive safe….when you start driving again that is;o)
Sounds as though you’re bubbling over with gluten-free fun!
Safe trip home. Can’t wait for the pics.
Looks like you had a lot of fun! Must of been fun meeting up with so many of your online buddies like that. 🙂
I bet your babies don’t leave your side for at the very least a week when you get home…
The “no stamping” thing sucks – we went to Niagara Falls on our honeymoon, and had to BEG them to give us stamps. One guy didn’t want to, but the other agent told him to “get over it” and she gave us a stamp.
I know you’ve had fun, but it’s always good to get home!
It sounds like you had a great time! Oh man, I love your cat pictures and captions. So silly, but I was missing them!
Janesville — lucky duck. Have a safe trip home and try to stop at some yarn stores in Madison. I’m sure you haven’t enough yarn.
Hey, I know that little face! He’s been looking at the door longingly ever since you left, hee hee!
I’m glad you had a great time with us – have a safe, rest of the drive home.
You’re right Gandalf. A revolt is in order. After a couple of Chris’s trips up nord and now this extended trip out of country? I wouldn’t blame May and Chaos if Chris came home to find her book collection on the floor and all the Nathan Kamp covers torn off.
~Rufus~
Wonderful!
Gandalf would be a lovely addition to your family of black felines!
Oh, I wish you lived closer too Chris! I so enjoyed meeting you…
I can’t wait to read my new book… Thank you again..
Gandalf is so cool, and his name does suit him. 😉
Safe trip across those final miles.
L
Can’t wait to hear more about your trip. I hope the price paid for time away from said kitties won’t be too great.
I wish you lived closer too. Like, in the same country. Hmph.
Oh Chris, glad to hear that you had a great time!! A little jealous of the fun you had and the people meeting that you go to do!!!
And I am praying that Gandalf was just reading rumors… because you do deserve a break… But just remember the movies Home Alone… yea, I think you are in for!! LOL!!!
Wish we all lived closer!
Have a safe drive my friend!
have you ever heard the saying trouble with a capital “T”
Can’t wait to see the Niagra Falls photos!! Am hoping to make my own trek next summer.
Chris- It would have been shameful to send you home without having the Swiss Chalet experience.
Wish we all lived closer- it would be a blast.
Safe journey- and hugs to Chaos and Mayhem.
Gandalf needs to work on his threatening glare. It is nothing compared to the ones that Chaos gives. Sounds like you have had a great trip!
I really wanted to go up (well technically, “down”) to Canada when I was in Detroit last month, but we just didn’t have the time.
Sounds like you’ve had a great trip!
Sounds fabulous!!! BTW, the hide-a-bed is always available if you’re passing by/through Chicago. 🙂
Sad for you to live Brigitte and the Little Dudes, but hopefully Gandalf has passed the word to Chaos and May to be gentle and forgive. Don’t insult the hand that gives the Greenies, right?
Have a safe trip home!
P.S. I meant, “sad for you to *leave* Brigitte and the Little Dudes.” 🙂
Sounds as if you had fun. Hope the kittehs speak to you!
Niagara Falls is spectacular. I was there on a day when someone had tried to go over in a barrel. Much excitement! I think it all turned out OK–they didn’t go over.
Best of luck with the kitties when you get home!
Gandalf! Such a handsome guest black kitty.
Isn’t Niagara Falls amazing???
Sounds like you had a great time! And that a transporter would be really, really nice.
And such a handsome guest black kitty he is, too! I’m glad you had a good time. And waaaah! I wish any of you lived closer! 😉
It sounds like you had a blast! If I came back from a trip like that, Saru-chan would sniff my hands and be all, “You were cheating on me, mommy!”
OH my goodness I’ve spent soooo much time in Janesville WI when I was a little kid, well little kid to about 20. At least 2 weekends a year we spent there. Did you see the giant cow?
The kitties are probably plotting your demise.
welcome almost home!
Welcome back! I hope you survive your homecoming. 🙂
What a wonderful trip! Glad you met up with so many great friends too.
Gandalf is sooooo cute 🙂 He must be massive. Sounds like you had a wonderful time with them all.
Gandalf is a very handsome gentleman!
oh boy. not only do you disappear for days, but you post a different black kitty? chaos is never going to forgive you. (well, not til the day AFTER you get home)
my geography is horrid… you drove through chicago or you went over and through the UP? Did you stop in Windsor for some yummy Dim Sum? (mostly gf!! we use lots of rice flour instead of wheat flour)