How it started.

All packed. FINALLY!

It's crazy how things can change in a moment, or a matter of hours. That's how this whole thing got started. Me and my supportive boyfriend John were moving to Nashville TN, where we had a place to stay and some work lined up. So we purchassed our first money pit for the trip up from GA to TN. Herman (a 1970 VW buss). We bit off a little more than we could chew. This could have very easily been our first mistake. With dead lines on moving out of our appartment and quitting both our jobs with limmited funds, Herman was a Dream-Ride. Not the most practical under the situation; But with the help of many friends and hard work, we FINALLY got ol' Herman going. It has always been a dream of mine to own a VW Buss. Hippy busses i call them.

A little 6 year old girl said it well when seeing us and Herman on our first test drive to Wal-Mart (the day before our trip out); "Wow! That's pretty cool buss mamma!" I looked at her and smiled. "I've always wanted one." She squeeked in her Disney voice, "Dreams really do come true!".

That's exactly how i felt. I had everything I'd ever really dreamed about. 'Sally' My beautiful J200 guitar, Herman, and as the song says, "If I could make one wish two, i might ask for someone else to shear these dreams with..." And John. A handsome and very patient man to shear all of this with. So together we were off.

Well, like I said before; things can change in a matter of moments. While John was asleep for the 8hr drive that night to Nashville, I got a disturbing call. It was a dear friend of mine. She was in the hospital and might be getting admitted. Now was not the best time to be saying with them in TN. The news was unfortunate to say the least. Not only was I concerned about my friend, I now had no place to go; and almost worse than that, I had to tell John that we now were out of luck with no place to stay.

He took it well. lol

But we had to come up with a change of plans. The buss was loaded down with freakin' WAY to much stuff to camp out of, so I had to get rid of a lot of stuff. My Grandpa was genorouse and allowed me to keep some things there in GA in his storage. So we cleaned out the buss and headed out for Anderson, SC. John has some family there and a place we could stay for a few days to collect our thoughts and regroupe.

Okay.... Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead! lol with now, plan #B.

To Anderson.

WELCOME

Welcome to the VW ROAD TRIP! My Name is Mallory Jen and I'll be posting blogs on here as offten as possible to keep you updated on our day-to-day cross country adventure. We're doing it old-school. My boyfriend John, Myself, and Herman "(PICTURE COMING SOON)" Our 1970 VW Buss.

DISCLAMBER: I know my spelling sucks... and most of these computers don't have spell check. I am a dislexic dreamer and musician. No spelling corrections please. Just enjoy what you read and laugh, while bing thankful for your own education. Thanks.

As you travle the road with us, I will be keeping you updated on the fun, and the mundane parts about our trip. Learning along the way, please feel free to contact us with any ideas, thoughts, comments, you have. I will be letting you know what states we are headed to next and hope to meet lots of you. I will also be posting our show dates that we will be playing at in each state, so please come out and join us! Lest's travle together.