Chester the Traveling Cheetah

08/10/2024

08/10/2024

I’ve been traveling for two weeks with mom, dad, and my friend Fiona, the hippo. We drove through nine states: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Idaho, Ohio, Missouri, and Kansas. It was a great trip and we saw so much!

Our first stop was the Rosebud Indian Reservation and the Saint Francis Indian School (still use these names). Dad’s mom grew up here. She had a hard life. We saw the church and the museum. The church is beautiful!

Next stop, The Nebraska Junk Jaunt, with family. Everyone had fun!

Off to Iowa to see Aaron and Family. We ate at the biggest truck stop in the world, it’s on I-80. It was huge! Then we went to visit the Field of Dreams movie site. They built it and we came. Then we drove to LeClaire, Ioowa to visit Antiqur Archeology from the American Pickers TV show. Mom forgot to take pictures of me, but I was there! Iowa is so green and pretty.

Our last stop was The Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. We went to see Fiona, Fritz, Bibi, and Tucker the famous hippo bloat. They didn’t disappoint. They were playful and active. They like children and stuffed animals, they come right up to the glass and seem to pose for pictures. In my first video you can hear Tucker wheeze honk. He is showing us he’s boss. We also visited the cheetah. I was shocked to see it catch and eat a squirrel! I do not eat squirrels. A pretty zoo and the third oldest in the country.

24/06/2024

Yesterday mom and I visited the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs, Florida. We learned how they collect, clean, and shape sponges. We also learned that real sponges can hold 80% more water than a synthetic sponge. They are easier to keep clean and can last forever. Mom remembered a movie she had seen about sponge divers with Robert Wagner and Ronald Coleman, Beneath the 12 Mile Reef. It was filmed in Tarpon Springs.

15/06/2024

Today I visited Clearwater Beach in Florida. It was a nice day , but we got rained out. The weather made the beach a new interesting experience. When I first got to the beach the lifeguard flag was green (safe), then it changed to yellow(caution), then a really loud siren started screaming and a voice said the beach is closed because of lightning. We got out when it was yellow. It poured rain for over an hour, so we went to lunch at Frenchy’s. Yum! Crab stuffed grouper was delicious!! I’d visit again.

14/09/2023

I have had so much fun in Hawaii. We went to Volcanoes National Park and I was lucky enough to see Kilauea erupting. Spectacular and a little scary! A once in a cheetah lifetime experience.

11/09/2023

I’ve been in Hawaii this week. Today I visited Pearl Harbor, the Arizona, the Bowfin (a submarine), the Missouri where the peace treaty with Japan was signed, and the aviation museum. I saw a Stearman biplane, like the one I flew in, except it’s pilot had been George W. Bush. It was a long and wonderful day, but my paws are tired!