Dear Schmeeta,

We hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule of napping and yowling to read our blog. You may remember us, the bald one and the one with the beard to rub your cheek on...

Enough of all that, we do realise that even a cat as astute and talented as Schmeeta will have a hard time logging on. This is, of course, a thinly veiled conceit, through which we will communicate with YOU during our travels and who knows, maybe afterwards too (if you're really lucky). We've spent the last two weeks living it up in Washington State with Frances, living in a manner to which we had better not become accustomed if our money is to last until May.

Today the adventure really begins, we fly to San Diego this pm and all being well should cross the border into Mexico at Tecate some time this evening. We'll spend a weekend with Frances in Ensenada (wine country!) before she heads off to a gruelling business trip in NYC and we, well, we don't really know what we'll do next but it should involve Baja California, mating (humping?) hump back whales, the old colonial city of La Paz and the Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon railway) for starters.

More to follow once we find the sunshine...

L & J xx