Getting ready to go

A few months ago and after much talk about going on another road trip with newly retired, Vonnie and Russ Bradley, we finally decided we would pack up our trailers and head down to wine country in California.  Our friends Kathy and Brent Parrish asked if they could join us for the first couple of days, as they have some time off of their jobs.  Yes some of us have not hit retirement age.  Wonder what those two youngsters see in us "old" guys and gals?  It is because we have so much fun when we are together.   In preparation of our departure date we needed to get together and plan our route for the first few days.  More importantly for me, was getting together to decide what to call this blog.  It had to be something catchy and also had to have some meaning to all of us.  Saturday evening we got together for some drinks and appies.  And of course we had to have this little gathering of the minds in our 5th wheel to, you know,  get into the camping mood.  

Have you even noticed the funny names of some of the wines we have in our liquor stores?  Big Ass Red wine.  Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush. Blasted Church. And of course Fat Bastard.  Beers too have quirky names.  Flat Tire Ale.  Fat Woody Scotch Ale. Buttface Amber ale. Panty Peeler?? Speckled Hen Ale.   So giving a thought to where we are going (wine country) we thought we should come up with a name associated to wines and beers.  What we came up with was, Travels of ye olde Speckled Hens (ahem,,,,us girls) and the Fat Bastards (do I have to point out who they might be??).  You must realize that we had a few appies and beverages by the time we came up with this title.  Much laughter could probably be heard all the way up to the Dorlings house!!

I will be posting on the blog every few days or so as long as I am able to connect to wifi.  So if you dare to join us on yet another one of our oddball adventures,,,the link to the log will be hensandbastards.blogspot.com