When Confronted with a friendly kitten in the woods, we had yet another language to decipher. Was this kitten trying to tell us that she wanted to join us on our journey? To ride on top of our panniers in search of new land and fresh milk from goats? To cuddle with us in our tent at night and awake in the morning to breakfast at sunrise? Or was this kitten playing our heart strings like the a panhandler, just in search of or money or at least some food? We still can’t decide and we fought back the tears as we left the kitten near the white washed folly in the forest.