Cab driver takes couple and two cats on cross-country journey
That retired New York couple, after a lot of fanfare, completed their 2,500-mile car trip to northern Arizona with their two cats, reported the AP.
Why did they do it? To spare travel travail for their two cats, Pretty Face and Cleopatra.
Bob and Betty Matas, who have retired in Arizona, met cab driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his taxi in Manhattan after a shopping trip three months ago and jokingly invited him to come along on their upcoming move.
Taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz agreed to take them there for a $3,000 flat rate plus gas, meals and lodging. Mr Guldeniz drove his canary-colored Ford SUV cab about 10 hours a day.
Mr Matas said he was “flabbergasted” by the attention surrounding the couple’s trip. Passersby recognized them when they saw the New York cab, he said.
“Every state that we hit, people would say ‘Are you the ones?’ and we would say ‘Yes, we are the ones,’ ” Mr Matas said.
Would he do it again? No, not likely, he said.
Report by David Wilkening
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