We’ve landed in Atlanta, having completed our move from Seattle driving cross-country. Here are some numbers to ponder, with apologies to Harper’s magazine.
- Humans: 2
- Cats: 3
- Miles as the car rolls: 3,600
- Miles per gallon: 42.1
- Average speed of the car: 174,720 furlongs per fortnight
- Seconds spent pondering whether to use furlongs or smoots for the previous measure: 15
- Cracked windshields: 1
- Cats who forgot that if the tail is visible, the cat is visible: 1
- Mornings that the cats were foiled by platform beds: 5
- Mornings that the cats were foiled by an air mattress: 2
- Mornings that the humans were foiled by a bed with an underneath: 2
- Number of cats disappointed that said beds turned out to be moveable: 3
- Hours spent experiencing the thrills of Los Angeles rush hour traffic: 3
- Calls from a credit card fraud monitoring department: 1
- Hotel hot tubs dipped into: 2
- Restaurant restrooms with disconcerting signs: 1
- Progress of feline excavation to China: no report
- Fueling stops: 10
- Net timezone difference: +3.0
- Number of moving company staff involved: 9
- Host cats consternated by the arrival of three interlopers: 4
- Cats who decided to spend a few hours under the covers to bring down the number of whelms: 1
- Tweets sent using the #SEAtoATL hashtag, including this post’s tweet: 23
- Nights spent in California: 2
- Nights spent in Texas: 3
- Humans and cats happy to have arrived: 5
