Just blame RuPaul's Drag Race

I know our boyfriends do. But they don't seem to understand what a wonderful show (and drinking game) it truly is. I mean, She-mail? Con-drag-ulations? Lip sync for your life?! If you haven't watched this show by now, you're missing out. 

But this isn't about RuPaul's Drag Race, although that's surely to blame for the reason drag queens were at the forefront of our minds. This is about the name of this travel blog. Britt had a Facebook status about our budgeting idiocy, and I made a comment that this trip would probably end up to be nothing like we planned. But as long as we came across a juggler, a drag queen and (because all good things must come in threes) a person in a panda suit, I'd consider it a success.

Now, we're going to travel for two whole weeks, from coast to coast and back again. Surely some quirky law of probability dictates that it's possible for us to come across all three such individuals. So then I demanded that we find a juggler, a drag queen and a person in a panda suit. Besides, if the rest of the continental United States should fail us, we could always spend an hour in P-town when we got home. 

That, too, seems almost easy to accomplish. So I upped the ante. I wanted to find a juggling drag queen in a panda suit. Now that's a quest! We'll actually have to hunt for this one!

Maybe not.

Within an hour, one of Britt's friends said he knew of a drag queen with a panda suit. He even sent us a picture. She doesn't juggle, but all she has to do is have someone take another picture with her holding a ball in one hand and a few tossed in the air, and it will totally look like we've found our juggling drag queen in a panda suit. And we haven't even gone on the road trip yet!

... And we haven't even gone on the road trip. As amazing as it is to find what we were seeking, the victory feels a little empty. We didn't have to work for it. And we didn't find her, someone else did. Well, whatever, we still came across the improbable.

Britt and I have talked about making a travel blog to document our road trip, and what better name for it than "Juggling Drag Queen in a Panda Suit"! But when she sent me the link it said "Juggling Drag Panda"...

Perfect. 

We are looking for a juggling panda bear dressed in drag. Now that is a real quest, a worthy dream because what's the point of having feasible goals for an inane adventure?