Driving home from breakfast on April 29, I saw a Rolls Royce turn from Route 926 onto northbound Route 841. I noted it with mild interest: it's not every day you see a Rolls on the road.
But then, no more than five minutes later, I got an excited call from a frequent Tilda contributor: she wanted to let me know that she had just seen SEVEN of the magnificent vehicles in a row on Newark Road between Routes 82 and 842!
I did a quick online search and found the explanation: the Rolls Royce Owners' Club was having its a week-long outing through our area. They had quite an itinerary: on April 28 they went to Longwood Gardens and the Brandywine River Museum, with dinner at the Greenville Country Club.
On April 29, when we spotted them (and other people reported seeing them along Routes 82 and 926), they were on a 60-mile driving tour of the Brandywine Valley, with lunch at Buckley's Tavern.
According to their brochure:
"Join us as we tour the Brandywine Valley that winds through the scenic Chateau Country of Southern Chester and Delaware Counties, PA and Northern Delaware. The narrow twisting roads that tradce the Brandywine River force slow progress through lanes of Tulip Trees and Oaks. Wildflowers, not billboards, line the roadsides."
On April 30 they toured Nemours and Hagley Museum, with lunch at the Dupont Country Club. On May 1 they drove through New Castle, Del., and through southern Delaware (a 130-mile trek), with lunch at Sambo's Crab Shack. May 2 was a tour of Winterthur. May 3 was Auburn Heights, with dinner at the Greenville CC. And the outing wrapped up on May 4 at the Winterthur Point-to-Point.
I was amused to see that when they registered for the event, participants had to promise that they would drive only a Rolls or a Bentley. As far as I could see there was no Official Mustard Sponsor.
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