Umm now what?

Yes the rumor are true the Champagne Express actually made it home. We had a close call not a hour away from the US border with a tire exploding while doing 110 clicks on the freeway. It almost kept us in the States but Canada was calling and we persevered and made it home.  But by no means is the Champagne Express over now that we are home. There is still the final leg of our journey to finish. The drive to Savary is still to come. Stay tuned for more...

Nick & Dru

The Final Frontier?

Before hitting the Memorial day highway from hell we had one more pit stop before heading back towards the coast.

Palmer's Persuit

Every Paintball geek's heaven! 

   

Wine country!

Who knew we would come across the steepest most windy road of the journey, Napa valley to Sanoma valley?

     

These photo's show only the good times which were few and far between on our Northern journey. Mostly the coast brought us foggy rainy weather that wasn't worth documenting, it's only purpose was to depress us.

Stopping off in Trinidad California we camped in the damp forest and got

down to some REAL camping.... i.e. BBQ and beer

and then ...

the real rain came!

What better time to experience our first flat tire of the journey. Pulling into a gas station an exacto blade fit nicely in our tire, on the rim in minutes. Nick, being the good man he is, changed the tire in the torrential down pour. 

    

and then the wipers went! 

Tell me, what better way to warm up than with a fresh bowl of 'bus' made soup?

After a a bottle of Chocolate Stout and a Dead Guy Growler we were on the hunt for this Oregon brewed beer.

We found it. 

We sampled it.

We fell in love with it.

A stop in Seattle took us to EMP and a wonderful visit with family and friends 

   

 

Looks like we're almost home!

BUG-O-RAMA

  

After a highly stimulated week of F.U.N. The Champagne Express reluctantly said good bye to it's second guest.

What's next on the list of things to do?

Head towards Sacramento for the ultimate California experience. 

 

Camp in a field with a whole lot of other crazy VW folk. 

America's longest running VW event, Bugorama fulfilled all of our expectations with a few key elements:

  

Enthusiastic campers

   

Drag Racers

   

Good ol' Hippies

 

Beautiful classics

&

 

a fantastic Swap Meet 

packed with everything the avid VW enthusiast could dream of.

Dishing out a few bucks, even Fritz (the bus) maximized on the experience.

 

Obviously the detour was a hit!