WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) – Bridget the bridge-jumping cat used up several of her nine lives in a 70-foot leap into the Columbia River earlier this month, but her adventures weren’t over: She just completed a cross-country flight to her new home in rural Maine.

Bridget was driven to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday to catch a flight home with April Newman of Thorndike, Maine, who’d flown out to fetch her on Thursday.

“She made it just fine,” said Karen Headlee, director of operations for the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society, where the cat had been lodged since its rescue. The shelter received $100 in donations to help pay for the cross-country trip.

Bridget – named for her bridge feat – drew national attention when she fell out of the engine compartment of a pickup crossing the Odabashian Bridge. She avoided swerving vehicles, jumped from the bridge to elude would-be rescuers and then swam 600 feet to shore in 55-degree water.

When no local owner stepped forward, Bridget was put up for adoption. Headlee says there were no local takers.

Newman, a certified public accountant for the office of the state controller in Augusta, heard about Bridget on National Public Radio. She was selected to take Bridget because of her history, Headlee said: The former shelter volunteer has four rescued cats.

Newman said Sunday that Bridget, a 7-pound calico with soft, angora-like fur who appears to be between 8 and 10 years old, had no problems adapting to her new surroundings or to her four feline housemates.

“She actually loves it here,” Newman said. “She’s been purring, and she just curled right up next to me. She obviously had been someone’s beloved pet.”