Prep

So what do three couples who share a passion with wine do besides drink more wine? We plan a trip of course. You might ask yourself where did we get the theme for our trip - Battle of the Wine Clubs? Well, we're a competitive bunch. Phil/Traci belong to three wine clubs (Hendry, St Francis, and Kokomo). Travis/I belong to Alpha Omega, William Selyem and Gary Farrell. Wil/Susie don't belong to any, but we'll see what happens by the end of the trip. The thought behind it is, who has the best wine clubs? We're still working on our rating criteria. More on that later.

So the time has almost arrived. T-minus 4 days until flight time. Did I say the itinerary was 12 pages. . . yep 12 pages. In a nutshell, we will visit the following areas:

• Napa
• Sonoma
• Healdsburg/Russian River
• Mendocino

Did I mention we even put together matching T-shirts for our trip? Our current estimate is 47 wineries in 9 days. We'll have to see where we end up and how/if the itinerary is changed.