Hitting the conferences: No-Kill and AVMA
By Gina Spadafori
July 30, 2010
It’s not very often that Christie and I are on the road and Dr. Becker is not, but stranger things have happened, I suppose.
Dr. Becker is a traveler. He has been to more than 100 countries, and the only thing he likes as much as seeing the stars on his isolated Almost Heaven Ranch in north Idaho is seeing the lights of NYC, London or Tokyo.
My idea of ideal travel is to live somewhere different for six months or so, something I’ve only managed once, when I lived in a beach house on the Florida panhandle in 2000. I have traveled a great deal, mostly for business, and I’m not bad at it. I have a great house-sitter who moves in so the pets are well cared for.
But really, I’d rather stay home.
I know Christie’s the same way. She spent part of her youth in Milan hanging with the fashionistas, but now she’d just rather stay home. Of course, that’s a tad more exciting when you live in San Francisco, as she does, not Sacramento, as I do.
Kim is more like Dr. B. For Kim and Jerry, work is something you do to earn money for the next trip, and the sooner you’re booking those flights, the better.
Isn’t it funny that we’re all working together and like each other so much? The only thing we all have in common in our traveling ways in great house-sitters, but you know if we couldn’t be sure our pets were in good hands, none of us would go.
In any case: Christie and Kim are at the No-Kill Conference in DC, and I’m on my way to Atlanta for American Veterinary Medical Assocation.
We’ll be posting as we can from both all weekend. I’m very excited about meeting Dr. Patty Khuly in person at last. Some long-time friends are coming up from South Georgia for dinner, and I have a long list of seminars to sit in on and people to meet.
Still, I can’t wait to get home … and I haven’t left yet.
I used to be a road warrior. Don’t miss it a bit. Safe travels, you two.
Comment by David S. Greene — July 30, 2010 @ 9:03 am
Will be excited to read the blogs as you share.
Comment by Mary — July 30, 2010 @ 9:10 am
I’m a stay at home person. Guess it comes from being a military move every year brat. Home body I am!
Comment by Liz Palika — July 30, 2010 @ 10:36 am
Have a safe trip and looking forward to your blog. Me too I used to love to travel - now it’s a chore. But who knows maybe in the future I will enjoy it again…
Comment by mary frances — July 30, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Some of the best advice I’ve heard was when I was told to ask my favorite vet tech if she pet sits. She does, she knows my animals, and she’s a vet tech. It makes it so much easier to leave home for a bit.
Comment by Ericka — July 30, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
I read James Michener’s The Drifters when I was in high school and it has always been my inspiration: one couple in it worked half the year and traveled the other half (they were Scandinavian). We haven’t achieved that…yet.
Comment by Kim — July 30, 2010 @ 6:14 pm