Cleopatra Murrrrow, all. I apologize for not keeping you
all up to date on the Road Trip, but I've been extremely
busy. When I agreed to pilot this RV I had no idea how
energetic kittens can be.

The Thanksgiving dinner and Toni Bennett's going-away party
were wonderful, and all the kittys that filled up on turkey
were overdosed on tryptophan and fell asleep almost as soon
as they returned to the RV. Those that mostly stuck to sweets,
which included many of the kittens, were on a sugar high that
lasted for the better part of a day.

We made good time once we left the truck stop, and pretty
quickly found ourselves at Merrimac Caverns. Several kitties
had expressed an interest in seeing them, so we stopped there.
I believe that the staff had not been informed that my Royal
Personage was going to be visiting, so my arrival took them
by surprise. I have trouble understanding some of the more
obscure human dialects, but the greeting we received when we
pulled in to the parking lot sounded something like:
"Golly, Vern, lookkee there! There's a pussycat driving
that thar RV-home!" "G'wan, kittycats cain't drive. Well
I'll be, there do be a kittycat driving! Hey, y'all come
lookee here!". And so we had a solid phalanx of humans to
greet us.

As soon as the RV doors opened, though, a handful of uncontrollable
kittens (led by Samuel Redkitten) bounded off the RV and
in to the caverns. Two hours later they had still not returned,
so a search party consisting of Amelia and Clarence went off
into the caverns looking for them. When the search party hadn't
returned by midnight, another search party was sent in. This
group found the kittens and herded them out, but didn't find
any sign of the first search party. Those two came sauntering
out of the caverns near day-break, claiming to have become
lost. Hmmph.

grumble darned mischievous little kittens, ought to keep
them locked up until they're three.../grumble

We've now passed through the state of Missouri, and are headed
towards our next target, Oklahoma City. Samuel Redkitten wants
to visit Tinker Air Force Base, but the thought of the sorts
of trouble he could cause there...

We'll see.