Just a quick 20 mile run from our hotel and across this bridge and we are in Sausalito
We woke up this morning rested and ready to see some sights. Charlotte registered for her convention here at the hotel where we are staying and then we had breakfast. Later and fuller, we headed north about twenty miles north across the bay to our favorite little town in these parts, Sausalido. It is a beautiful little town that sits across the bay from San Francisco and is just a big collection of shops and bistros where you can spend the entire day and not see all of the unique little stores.
I just had two things to buy for sure, that was the two suprises for my grandsons. They kinda left it open with just a few instructions. The first one was when they called they said, “No teeshirts PawPaw”! Ok, so with that in mind, I set off to find something that would suprise them.
I’m getting on the plane in the morning early and flying back to Dallas to be there for the convocation for the coming school year and am coming back to San Francisco the next day in time for the convention banquet on Friday night. So I can take the suprises with me. ( I hope I can get them through TSA!) I’m leaving it there and let you guess what I may have picked up for them!
OK all you virtual hitchhikers, where do you think we should stop here before we pull out of town and head north to Montana? Let me hear from you!
Ted Purcell 
Hey Ted, hope you had a safe and productive trip back to Dallas. Be glad to get you back today so that we can resume our trip.
You know, I was thinking that Charlotte is really a girl after our own hearts. We love Moscato wine and it is hard to go wrong with that choice. Ted, we have found that Ernest and Julio Gallo make a fine Moscato which is bottled in a one liter container with the handy screw top, which I will explain the virtues of later. But you know our real favorite is the Gallo White Merlot. The same body and richness of a Merlot, but a little more fruity with the added benefit of it not staining your dentures, like the regular Merlot. We like it in the 1.5 liter bottle with the handy screw top. A little pricey, yes. I got a jug yesterday at Spec’s, for our upcoming trip to Lubbock, and paid $6.86 drive out cash for one bottle.
Ted, we have found that if we pull out those rubber inserts in the cup holders in the front console in our F-150, that a 1.5 liter bottle of White Merlot will fit in there nicely. Makes for a great traveling companion for both the driver and navigator on those long drives, if you know what I mean?
Anyway, about the screw caps. About a month ago, we were over in Round Rock visiting some dear friends. We started back to Houston on a Sunday morning and our friends gave us a bottle (750ml) of some “Chateaux duc Skunky”, or some such named red wine. Dang thing had a cork in it and after we managed to get it corked, we took out. After about 100 miles we had about all we could take of the stuff, even though there was probably about an 1/8th of pint left in the bottle. Well, I tried to stick the cork back in the thing, so that I could throw the near empty bottle out the window. I must not have had the cork in too good, because as soon as I threw it out the window the cork blew off and wine blew all down the side of our truck, windows, back seat, everywhere. Took me two hours to clean the dang thing up when we got home. Stick to the screw tops, my friend,
Glad you will back in the saddle today. Let us hear how everything is. By the way, I am not touching that Bath House experience with Capehart and Hughes. It just happened that once, and I will never do it again. (For Free) !!
Edge
Hey Edge,
Yeah Charlotte is a Muscato girl. Her favorite is the Arbor Mist series which you can buy in almost any flavor at Krogers for about $5.00 a bottle. I try to keep her stocked up pretty well. Like you mentioned, it’s a little pricey but she’s worth it!
As for those drink holders on my F150. Yeah I threw those things away right after I bought the truck when I realized it worked a lot better without them. It will hold that big wine bottle perfectly.
Now Edge, let me give you a little lesson on throwing wine bottles out of the truck while in motion. I hear what you’re saying about the screw on cap vs. the cork but let me suggest the proper etiquette for throwing wine bottles out of your moving truck. First of all, you never throw away the paper bag they put the wine in when you check out at Krogers or wherever. This is one time you difinately ask for paper instead of plastic. Now let’s say you and your passengers are polishing off a bottle on you way somewhere and you finish it or as you mentioned in your comments the bottle you are trying to force down would score under 10 points on the wine tasters guide. In other words, it’s bottle chunking time!
Now, your advanced planning comes into play. You ask your navigator to open the glove box and remove the neatly folded paper bag the bottle came in at the store. You put the cork in if you can or the cap if you haven’t lost it. Then opening up the bag you place the bottle all the way to the bottom and take the top of the bag and twist it around the neck of the bottle until it is wrapped tightly and covers the entire top of the bottle. The bottle is now ready for disposal.
Grab the top of the tightly wrapped neck in your left hand (after you roll down the driver’s window). Next, check your rearview mirrors very carefully to make sure no traffic is any closer than a hundred yards. Place the bottle outside the window against the door. Then swing the bottle up and over the top of the truck. The paper sack will keep the bottle from catching light and reflecting down the road to other traffic. the tightly wrapped paper handle allows you to take aim with fairly good accuracy. You can statr out by trying to nail speed limit signs and graduate on up to the little Texas Highway signs. As talented as you are, you should be working on the Texas Highway sign pretty quick. Happy chunking!
Hey Ted,
I’m ready to get back on the road again. I got a cash advance on my social security so I’m good to go. Sue, could you throw me another cold one back here. Edgerton seems to enjoy the arrangements back here but I’m not too excited about it.
I take it you have hit all the wine tours in Napa and Sonoma? It’s worth a one time shot. Once you’ve done it, you’ve done it.
Keith
Hey Keith,
Welcome back to the bar dude! Yeah money talks. Nothing like cash to make the wheels on this old truck turn a little easier. Since you’re on the” cash only” list, I probably need to warn you that we don’t always have the correct change to break those new Bejamins you got from Uncle Sam on you cash advance from Social Security. What the standing policy is on this road trip is you just give Sue the $100 and she’ll keep track (more or less) of how many times she has to put her hands into that icey water to pull you out a can of Keystone Light. The colder her hands get, the more times she marks on your tab. Once you hit 10 beers, it’s road trip policy you have to buy a round for the truck. I know this won’t be a problem for a big time spender like yourself, but it’s better to explain the rules so we keep everybody happy and buzzed. So it’s 99 bottles of beer in the box, 99 bottles of beer, I chugged my down, Keith bought a new round, now there’s 89 bottles of beer in the box! Wow, what a great trip! Capehart, you’re back on the A Team! When we make our next rest area pit stop, you take backseat shotgun, we will move Edge to the middle for a spell. Hughes is getting lonely! And besides that it may give Edge a chance to pick up some extra Keystone cash along the way!
Hey Ted…Sorry I’m a couple days late posting my comment on Day ll. Like you I had to rush back to Texas. You’d think The 65’er Website could get along without me for a few days, but Nooooo, I had to get back and take care of Paul’s Potty Problem! As you know, we have a new Forum called ‘On The Road To Our 50th’ where Jamie and I are taking everyone back to growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. I won’t go into the whole Paulie Potty Problem Post…you can read that when you have some down time during the trip…on the potty would be appropriate! I’ll just say that I took care of him for his Birthday…Today August 17th…by baking him a Chocolate ExLax Birthday Cake.
Now, for Sausalido. Wow, look at that bridge! So glad you shared that. I hear you can’t go to San Francisco without having your picture made there. Great pictures of you and Charlotte on the Bay.
Keith says he’s back in the black! Is it okay to toss him a cool one? There’s a couple of cans of ‘The Beast’ back here? He should be able to afford that if he has anything left from buying those other two Yahoo’s Bubble Bath!
Hey Sue,
Your birthday cake to Edge was probably a good deal for everyone on this trip! Good job! I don’t know if I mentioned to Edge that it is road trip policy that whoever calls for a pit stop has to buy the a round for everbody in the truck. That cake should let everyone drink for free for the next day or so!
Yeah, Capehart is back on the beer list under the conditions of the trip policy. (you can read how it’s set up in my response to him). You may want to get some hand warmers at the next stop because something tells me that with Capehart flush wtih Social Security advances and Edge needing to make the pit stops, you’re going to be serving out some serious rounds for the next day or so!
That was an AWESOME message at the convocation, Mr. P! Thank you for flying in to give it!