bedeck, ply (TRAVEL), fire sb up, "Fired up, ready to go !"

A fast-growing middle class with money to spare on travel and, as it now seems, on charity, did not wait for official encouragement to help out in Sichuan. Thousands of volunteers headed to the disaster zone, from businessmen to Christian youth. Their cars, some bedecked with flags and slogans, ply the expressway between Chengdu and Jiangyou.

e-Hail To the Chief

"Fired up, ready to go -- that was the campaign slogan," says a beaming Ernest E. Johnson on a recent Saturday. A real estate agent and longtime Washington activist, the 60-year-old worked the streets and the Internet, networking and organizing to make sure Barack Obama got elected president.
(By Jose Antonio Vargas, The Washington Post)

fire sb up phrasal verb
to make someone become excited or angry:
We had an argument about it and she got all fired up.



bedeck
verb [T usually passive] LITERARY
to decorate or cover:
The hall was bedecked with flowers.




ply (TRAVEL)
verb [I + adverb or preposition; T] OLD-FASHIONED
When a form of transport plies a particular route, it makes that journey regularly:
High-speed trains regularly ply between Paris and Lyons.
This airline has been plying the transatlantic route for many years.