At first glance, Chester looks like any other tuxedo cat. Smart and suave. Sassy. However there’s more to Chester than meets the eye.

We have a similar early background, both of us left to fend for ourselves in a harsh, human world at an impressionable age. Both of us battling hardship before finally making the decision to adopt a woman to feed us.

But that’s where the similarity ends.

I’m a city cat, born and bred in earshot of the trams rattling through the metropolis, in the hub of the frightening freeways and the incessant honking of taxi cabs.

Chester was born in a barn.

The woman who feeds Chester suspects his parentage to contain a touch of the feral and that could be true for all we know. Out there in the wild bush anything can happen.

Tiger is a sprightly 18 year old, adopted from a shelter in Oklahoma when he was a few weeks old.

He stays on top of the latest trends by hanging out with his anipal, Murphy, who is three years old.

That’s the secret to staying young, have younger friends!

Do you yearn for the open road? Ever feel an itch to set out into the unknown world and just move on and on to the horizon?

I do.

Let me tell you something in confidence, the next time the-woman-who-feeds-me attempts to spoon out food from a can in my bowl (quelle horreure!) I’m hitting that highway!

I’ll be heading for the Hillbilly Highway, Highway 61, Highway 20 Ride, I don’t care which one, I’ll hit the road, Jack. It will be my way or the highway.

And it can be done! Kitty the Cat, backpacker extraordinaire, is spending the next 3 years hiking from Miami to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego.

Accompanying her on her journey are her staff people, William and Laetitia, a French couple who fancy a bit of walking to pass the time.

The tireless trio share their adventures on Turn of the World with photos and video.

Although, now that I think about it, perhaps it would be a little irksome padding along for three years, I get tired easily these days. Maybe I can convince the woman to carry me along the road instead? (as long as she can cook my meals four times a day).