The first weekend of our VA winery quest was in November, 2008. Mike dubbed it the Long and Winery Road. As an avid Beatles fan, this appealed to me. Ever since, we have given each tour a name. My personal favorite was the Doomsday Tour, which coincided with what was supposed to be the end of the world. When we woke up on day two of that tour, we discovered that the world had indeed survived, and we went on visited wineries 96, 97, 98, 99, and the much anticipated #100. Most of our tour names are based on the experiences we have and reflect something about the weekend. The Winestock tour was the weekend of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. (We even spent the night in Woodstock. The fact that it was Woodstock, VA was beside the point.) The Capitol Short Tour took place close to DC. The Retirement Tour followed the end of Diane’s 31 year career in teaching.
The name for our most recent tour came to us as we were eating (and drinking) lunch at Vitner’s Cellar in Newport News, a winery we had visited before. We had planned to visit several new wineries on the Chesapeake Bay Wine Trail on the Northern Neck, an area we had explored in December of 2008. It occurred to us that we were going over old ground, so the latest tour came to be known as the Sloppy Seconds Tour. The name became increasingly appropriate as we found ourselves doing things and going places we had and done and been to before. I’m writing this early in the morning, the day after our trip. Even with a slight hangover, I have to admit, the Sloppy Seconds Tour was as much fun as all the rest.
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