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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Bear
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Zooey
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The itinerary described two days worth of field trips, discussions, and banquets. Warren, along with other postmasters who'd held their post for more than twenty-five years, had been invited to Philadelphia to receive a medal of thanks.
"The first scheduled event was a tour of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial," Fup tells the campers. "Franklin was America's first postmaster general. He was Mr. Warren's hero."
The campers nod. Just then a flame crackles and a splinter of wood jumps out of the fire. Zooey leaps from the hole he's dug for himself next to the burning logs. A cloud of dirt rises around him, but he's fine.
Fup goes on, "Mr. Warren must have been excited about the tour, because when he returned from the hotel in the morning, he opened the truck's back doors. He hadn't opened the back since we left Maine.
"We bolted," Fup admits. "We raced out the door — all of us except Clara, who'd been napping."
The long, shut-in winter in the post office. Then two full days cooped up in the truck. Really, who knew when they might get outside again?
"Eventually, Warren had to go meet his tour group, so pretty soon he gave up trying to get us out from under the truck. When he left to find his shuttle bus, we headed to the park behind the hotel."
Fup remembers hearing birdsong. She remembers big oak trees, just beginning to bud green. And how, once she and Ro and their parents safely crossed the hotel's busy parking lot, what had seemed like a small municipal park in fact stretched along a riverbank as far as they could see.
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