PROLOGUE
I have had cats all my life. Most all have adopted me looking for a home and a good life which I gladly gave to them. After tragically losing a young cat during a particularly bad period of my life I was so devastated that for the first time, I actively went out and adopted a cat. That is how one year old Sinbad came into my life and in doing so he helped me with my own life. Sinbad was a medium long hair orange/ginger cat. He very much looked like a Somali. Sinbad was destined to be the first cat I ever took on the road traveling. We started out in old 1967 British Land Rover 109. Unfortunately those journals have been lost. When I grew tired of wrestling with these beasts I purchased a used 1995 Isuzu Trooper and we car-camped out of it for a few years. During this time the first motor home came into our lives, an old 1976 Winnebago Brave that we refurbished. I loved that old classic RV we nicknamed The Box for it was just that−a huge box on wheels. Finally, longing for something with a bit more comfort and reliability in my advanced years I bought a used one year old 2006 Winnebago View. Our stories here begin three years earlier in the fall of 2004. Sinbad was now five years old.