Palm Springs Kilted Weekend April 3-4-5

[sydnie7]

Come on...don't hold out...more about #98 please....

Looks like great weather and good fun.

Great weather and good fun, yes!

But you'll have to wait for Hamish's input on Ol' #98. I was too busy taking pictures to take notes!

Dressed for dinner, now to get Bob into his finery and off to Lyon's for another smashing good time.

[jiminak]

I missed the photo opp of Star's new pink argyle hose, but I'm sure they will show up later. Now it's time to clean up and dress for dinner!

Here as predicted are the pink argyle hose! Admire and be amazed!!!


Jim

[jiminak]

Here we are outside the Lyon's English Grille just before getting down to the serious matter of the food and light liquid refreshment (!)

Two of our number were still on their way, but we ALL made it



Jim

[The Barry]

Now that looks like a fun weekend!

[McClef]

Looks like Hamish is having a good time there!

And the rest of you too!

[Rob Wright]

Looks like Hamish is having a good time there!

And the rest of you too!

And here I was having to bloody work....IN pants!

Rob

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

We got home just a few hours ago, and I immediately had to walk the kids and the dog. My "sit upon" has been "sat upon" for 17 hours in the traveling this weekend.

We have some great photos, currently being sorted, which will likely be posted by the beloved husband tomorrow (while I'm working). Sarcastic comments by myself to follow a day or two later, I'm sure!

I know that every camera was used, and there was a lot of video shot by His Lairdship himself, but I also know that it will take time to get them up here, so everyone hang in there.

Can't wait to see our wonderful weekend fully documented. It will make me feel like we're living it over again!

Be well,

[David Dalglish]

Great set of Photo's.

[Panache]

The cantankerous way2fractious, the incomparable Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess, and yours truly left San Jose early Friday morning to start our close to 500 mile journey southward.

Here are some photos from our trip (Sydney has already posted a couple of them)

I have never been to the desert before and was delighted when I spotted Joshua trees. I pulled over as soon as we could so we could get get a few pictures. Now taking those photos proved to be challenging as a great wind storm was in progress. Needless to say that some of our attempts would not be appropriate for a family friendly forum!

w2f and I in camo kilts



The lovely F-H.C.A.G. and her windblown husband



Our view




Getting back into our car we continued along the road. The F-H.C.A.G. had planned our trip so that we might have a chance to travel a small portion (about 2 and half miles) of what was the famous Route 66. We had hoped to find a place to stop for a picture with one of the highway signs, we found...










The California Route 66 Museum!


http://califrt66museum.org/

For our X Markers outside the USA you can find out a little about Route 66 here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66

There is even a wonderful song about that goes...


Well if you ever plan to motor west
Just take my way that the highway that the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it goes from St Louis, down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it goes from St. Louis, down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66


The gents running the place were quite friendly and we enjoyed a break from our drive to explore the memorablia of the years when Route 66 was "The Mother Road"

Richard and I sitting at a tribute to the many diners that were found along the great highway



My lovely wife and I standing next to this charmingly compact "honeymoon" camping trailer



I bought an inexpensive little charm that looked like a "Route 66" highway sign to wear as a watch fob and remind me of this wonderful weekend.

However, we couldn't linger too long as we had to get to Palm Springs and pick up a certain curmudgeon at the airport...

More to come!

[Panache]

We made it to Palm Springs and found a member of the Isle of Skye Club for Men* wandering about the airport looking lost.




Since he had such impeccable taste in kilts and tartan we decided to give him a ride

Back at the hotel we gathered in front of Sydnie and Bob's room as a goodly number of other X Markers arrived for a bit of a cocktail party

Sydnie (Sydnie7)



Kent (walkerk)



Madalyne (Madalyne)



Your friendly neighborhood Moderator



w2f taking photos ( X Markers are the most camera happy people on the planet)



Mike (Gibbs) suggested an excellent Pub not too far away so we headed off for food, drink, and more good company



bigdad1 and walkerk



Everyone had a great evening and I tried liver and onions for the first time! (Tasty stuff by the by! :food-smiley-002: )

We closed down the place and left before the waitress cut off the Wizard of BC and I off from ordering anymore coffee.

We all headed to our various homes and hotels because tomorrow was the big day to meet with Hamish and Jim.

More to come.