In about a week, as The Kindness Bicycle Ride for Heroes passes through Cleveland, Ohio, Bogart will begin his summer-long spa vacation and stay behind with friends. I will be completely busy with visiting all 212 firehouses and all 76 police precincts in the five boroughs of New York City. There will be many days that I am gone from The Kindness Bus for 12 hours or more and Bogart cannot be kept there for much more than a few hours at a time and not at all when it is hot.
Being at my daughter Lizzie’s graduation in Colorado Springs this weekend, two of her friends, Hillary and KK asked if they could give Bogart a bath. How could I say no? Let the pampering begin a week early.