The Adventures of Sunsette -- PTFCo Grand Tour hits PEI! (June 9)

[Alliecat]

what, then, is the appeal of "house sitting" or "pet sitting" over staying in a motel?

"Um, cos you get somewhere to stay for FREEEE?  For anything from a couple of days to months?  In a house, which if you pick right could be a nice posh house, where you can feel at home and have some space instead of squatting in a motel room?  And you can be somewhere nicer than strip-mall-strips and be in a place as a little more of a resident and less of a hotel-room-tourist.  And you can shop for groceries and cook healthier meals in a kitchen if you want to instead of $cavenging for re$taurant takeout.  And you get the companionship of animals and the lovely energy of sharing a space with them.  You're on holiday and sightseeing but you get to spend evenings with a kitty on your lap.  Or on the end of the bed at night.  You get cuddles and playtime and rambles around the yard with them, or walkies if it's a dog.  And you meet interesting people and have great discussions about Life, The Universe And Everything instead of just hi and bye with motel-desk clerks, and maybe end up as friends who keep in touch.  And when it's done and you get a good review you get the satisfaction of having helped someone out with something important, and knowing that they trusted you with caring for their home and fur babies and that they were glad they did.  Because it's an awesome way to travel!"

"Some homeowners will offer a car.  Mum has not taken one up on the offer because if anything happened, she prefers to keep the hassle out of the housesit and just with a rental car company.  ...And yes, someone did wreck that plaque.  Great housesits aside, some people just suck."


"OK, next chapter."

"We went to the Fort Worth Zoo, where there weren't a lot of photos taken of Scarlett and me.  It was pretty good, minus the primate house.  Mum thought the dejected orangutan was one of the saddest things she'd ever seen.  The rest was good, although, once again, we ran out of time for everything.  We should really start earlier."


"For something like $7, I think it was, they'd give you 3 or 4 lettuce leaves to feed the giraffes.  We got food for free with admission at the safari place last time."



"This is Bubbles the hippo, whose pic in her tank we posted in February."



"OK, can we all please just take a moment to acknowledge the SUPREME AWESOMENESS of TIGERS?"









"I mean, LOOK at this FUR.  Do you not want to SMOOSH him???   "



"The housesit folks left these lovely sunflowers for Mum."



"...and, ya know, because it's already like summer down there, they were probably freshly grown somewhere nearby..."






"Big enough to nap on!"



"Of course it was freezing while we were there, so on a gloomy cold day we had to do our best with photos on the kitchen table."



"Our new friend Kit, whom Mum had been looking for, for a while, and who amazingly showed up at a used-book shop just 20 minutes away; she had her introduction a while back."






"And we posted some pix already of the Frontiers of Flight Museum at the Dallas airport, which was fabulous and we should have gone a LOT earlier as -- all together now -- 'we ran out of time...'
"We love airplanes almost as much as we love tall ships."






"With all the models, we thought there was lots of potential for more we-sized things."



"Everything in the museum has flown.  This was our favourite.  Isn't it cooool?"



"We saw a piece of the moon!!!"

"Thanks for reading!
"Love, Sunsette  "