Half a Ton of Big Guys goes to Southern California

[Bloodhound]

We start off this Trip Report letting you all know this will be a non-traditional T R with input from everyone willing and that wants to contribute. Im Pluto.. My journey starts with complete last minute packing and fiqureing out how to make my new camera work thats still in the package that morning of departure...lol ... woo hoo gotta love that huh and followed with a drive from Fort Knox to Bowling Green...Stopping at K Mart to buy a new suitcase cause I just split the seams on my old one....lol and then off to Bowling Green and stop by my Flealand Antiques Mall business there to get paid and add a few things to my antiques booth and I go to dads house were Donald is on his way to pick me up after watching a Disney movie... I just finished repacking in the driveway on the tailgate of my truck at my fathers house and Donald arrives and Im still getting ready for departure.... and NO not a beer yet....lol Dont you just love the last minute details of a vaction....lol
We grab a burger at the neighboorhood Wendy's dirve thru and were off to Nashville and a nice overnight stay at Donalds sister's large new to them house in Nashville on Thursday Oct 23rd. afternoon... with our first stop at his neice's Ice Cream shop in Nashville Tn.....I had the Trailor Trash Hot Fudge Sunday ... Donald whats the name of the store????? We have a nice visit with His niece and her baby boy and his sister takes off for a tour of the neiborhood and we are off to see her son's new Resturaunt that may be opened by now and we are checking out the new place and decide to go eat wings....woo hoooo food....but no beer I find out when we get there ... wth !!!! there is just
something about wings and beer that go together ... you all know what I mean that love hotwings .....but we are told were told we can bring our own beer and use one of there cups the next time :woohooo: Can you tell Beer was on my mind????....this is an Adults Vacation you know and its well after 5pm by now Thursday Eve.... lol The wings were great and we asked for Hot Plus alittle extra kick and boy could we have done without that extra kick but they were great wings and fries. ... and again the name of the place fails me .... Donald alittle help please....lol
We head off to her house after eating ... which is so close to the wings house they can walk if the feel like it... and they drop me off to go pick up Donalds car while I wait the arrival of the other two Big Gus comming from Elisabethtown and Louisville for our Big Guys slumber party .....Donald and His sis gets back and Im watching tv and playing with the cat on my lap and still no Mickey and Goofy....we all stitting there and and get a phone call the others made a wrong turn and Donald leads them in an we are all together at last.....let the vacation begin....still no BEER!!!! lol We get a tour of the huge house and go upstairs to the sleeping quarters and I get stuck with a futon .... the most comfortable one Ive ever been on I might add and still too excite too sleep all night long....lol
We get up at 4a.m. and make our early morning rainy trip to the Airport cram packed into a nice 4door with the 5 us and lugage for a re-routed trip to the airport due to Clintion ariving in Nashville we made it on time and were off to checking in no time...Flying from Nashville to Denver and a 30 min layover and then Denver to John W Orange County airport and get out hertz reanal car. with picks of the duke will waiting....lol still to early for any beer opertunnities for me.....lol....
I will stop here till I get my 2 answers from Donald and His input from all the travel aragement bargains he made.... Pictures comming soonish.... I have one in storage of the four of us Big Guys that I need to scan and post from last year to introduce the cast of Big Guys and have figure out how to load my new picks onto photobucket in the meantime....carry on and have a great weekend its Friday I've worked non stop practically getting things caught up since my return and this weekend Im off to my sisiter's for fun an relaxation in Louisville Ky. My step daughter and her new baby lives twenty minites away from my sis's house just off !-64 in Indianna so we will see them as well.

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

im first imfirst im first

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

okay now i actually read it, sorry i was excited, i have never been first to post on a thread after it was started.


sounds like a nice crazy start to the TR, cant wait for some pictures to folow up, and yes you need beer with wings, what is wrong with those people.

 

[DonaldTDuck]

No for the important FACTS. The name of my niece's ice cream parlor is ied Piper Creamery, located on 11th in East Nashville, just off Five Points. The name of the restaurant owned by my nephew and other niece is, well, Pied Piper Diner. BTW, my sister owns(or did, not sure of status) Pied Piper Day Care. She is, of course, Elaine Drummer.(bid-a-bing)
The name of the Wings place is Ghot Wings and is on Gallatin Pike next to the Auto-Diesel college. Two big on this place.
The travel arrangements were made be exhaustive internet searches. I used AirTravelWatchdog.com to check airfares and we came up with roundtrip Louisville-Orange County for under $250 including all fees. Now you may ask, why did they go to Nashville, then? Well, about 3 months from departure I get a call from Frontier(our carrier) informing me they've closed their Louisville center, and would I like a refund or to change my city of origin. I think I shocked her when I took the second option. The flight out was the same time and hit the same connection in Denver. Coming back, though, we got to spend an extra hour in California and still got to Nashville the same time we'd have gotten to Louisville.
I found Cortona Inn on Travelocity for $62.25 a night, a 2 and a half star place. I found the car rental on HotWire at $139 a week including everything but insurance. And lastly,, I found our hotel in San Diego, Day's Hotel, on Orbitz for $74. I'm never afraid to shop around to squeeze those little Lincolns as hard as I can. However, Pluto did the most important planning for our trip, getting women to show up and , well, we'll discuss that later.
BTW, BH could have had a beer at the airport in Denver, but decided to eat at Quizno's with us. Best sammich I've had in a while.
As for the fan of my oddly middle-named hero, welcome and goog to see you again. Don't expect any mentions of him, though. We never saw him, or the Mickster, at all.

 

[Bloodhound]

okay now i actually read it, sorry i was excited, i have never been first to post on a thread after it was started.


sounds like a nice crazy start to the TR, cant wait for some pictures to folow up, and yes you need beer with wings, what is wrong with those people.

Dan you get the cookie for being first plus you will be pleased to know Chip and Dale are there to steal your wife when you ever make it to DisneyLand lol

my guess as for why Ghot Wings dont have beer is beacuse its right next door to the mecanics college and city wouldnt alow them to serve alcohol....just a quess.

 

[Bloodhound]

. BTW, BH could have had a beer at the airport in Denver, but decided to eat at Quizno's with us. Best sammich I've had in a while.
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Yes those were great sandwiches and we were hungry with no breackfast to speack of and 9ish a.m. at Denver is too early in the day for beer...for me anyway....I like my beer at night with dinner when we are done for the day.

 

[MAGICFOR2]

I'm here! Can't wait to see your adventures!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

Dan you get the cookie for being first plus you will be pleased to know Chip and Dale are there to steal your wife when you ever make it to DisneyLand lol

my guess as for why Ghot Wings dont have beer is beacuse its right next door to the mecanics college and city wouldnt alow them to serve alcohol....just a quess.

sounds good to me, i am thinking whenever we go to hawaii with erh parents, we will stop there for a few days andmake it a 2fer trip since we have to fly that way anyway, might as well make it worth the while.

 

[Bloodhound]

I'm here! Can't wait to see your adventures!

Glad you came Im having trouble with the pictures will update soon...new camera blues lol

 

[Bloodhound]

sounds good to me, i am thinking whenever we go to hawaii with erh parents, we will stop there for a few days andmake it a 2fer trip since we have to fly that way anyway, might as well make it worth the while.

That will be great for you .....stay at Howard Johnson and use the entertainment coupon or AAA Card and Fly into SNA Orange County

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

That will be great for you .....stay at Howard Johnson and use the entertainment coupon or AAA Card and Fly into SNA Orange County

thanks for the tips

 

[nurse.darcy]

I am here finally, and when you get to my part I will gladly interject with pictures and everything. Ya know I am good for that. . .lol.

 

[tinkermell]

I've been waiting for your report.

Yay!

 

[Bloodhound]

I am here finally, and when you get to my part I will gladly interject with pictures and everything. Ya know I am good for that. . .lol.

I've been waiting for your report.

Yay!

to the trip reort its been slow moving I cant find a picture Im looking for and still having problems with my new camera and very busy with life lol I know just get on with the tr right???? lol

 

[Bloodhound]

hi all....life has really been getting in the way of this tr...my wife has been fighting with kidney stones...very painfull.... the last couple days and Ive been her personal nurse and driver..... she is milking it for all its worth lol

 

[DonaldTDuck]

ehkay, looks like it's up to me to get the ball rolling.
Our flight was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that we had 3 lovely attendants to Denver, then 3 not so lovely(i.e. male) attendants from Denver to Orange County. Actually, I think 2 of them found each other attractive, but that's not why we're here. We had about 45 minutes in Denver so we had time to go to Quizno's and get a small sandwich. Well, that wasn't Quizno's plan. We got the medium sandwich and I can't imagine how big the big would be.
We land in Santa Ana and get our luggage. I go to the Hertz desk and am waited on by a bilingual counterperson. Just wish one of the languages had been English. Is Esperanto still a language? So we head to where I thought she said to go and see this.

We all had a dear friend who died a few years ago that had to be JW's #1 fan, so we took a few minutes of reverance. Goofy was his roommate so we took his pic.

We found a cop and found where we belonged. We were topd we would pick the car up at the airport, but the van took us to a location halfway between John Wayne Airport and LAX. Well, almost. But what a car. A brand new Impala with less than 300 total miles on it. And it held all our luggage in the trunk!
Our plan for months had been to arrive and go straight to In 'n Out to eat, but Quizno's nixed that. We got in the car and headed to Anaheim and our home for the next 5 days. (That's the car in front.)

 

[Bloodhound]

Great start Donald....Glad someone thought to take the pic of the car ...I really liked that car alot ....very roomy and lots of power for 4 big guys and all our stuff

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

good start, have pics inside the hotel?

 

[toocherie]

sorry I missed you guys when you were here--bad timing, as I was getting ready for my first WDW trip. Waiting to hear more about the BG's trip!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Nice start Donald! I've never even seen The Duke at the airport - where is it located? We always come into luggage and get picked up by family. My Dad and I are huge JW fans - I used to sit and watch old westerns with him all the time as a little girl.