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My life-on-and-off-stage partner, Steve and I have nomadic plans, and we camp with two cats.
I thought I’d share a bit of the back story and give you a glimpse of what we’re doing to prepare for full-time nomad life with Felines.
I’d been thinking of going nomadic for a few years before I met Steve. It was a pipedream, really. I didn’t know how it was going to happen, but I wanted it. At the time, I was being raised by two beautiful, mature Canines. Ginger and Sofia were my World, and I had every intention of somehow including them in this dream. At the time I was looking at used vans and also teardrop trailers. I was watching lots of YouTube videos, and writing a lot of journal entries about how I was going to sell everything and go. When my Uncle Jack gave me his Ford Escape (with a tow package) and also left me a small amount of money, I sold my VW Rabbit, and things started to take shape. Things started to feel possible.
Then Ginger died. I can’t even describe how terrible it was. My heart broke, and Sofia’s heart did too. She and I both needed to ground and to nest. So we did. My dream went to the back shelf in my mind, and I settled down into the sweet little 1920s home that I’d been renting from a friend. Sofia and I walked the neighborhood and shed our grief on the streets, sidewalks, and park trails. We went for rides, visited the toy (pet)…
