Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands Days 7 and 8: Simply monstrous. I mean marvelous: Loch Ness and Beyond Day 7: For my first full day truly solo, I had booked a small-group tour of Loch Ness, which included many…
Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands Days 5 and 6: Lambs and Lochs, Wind and Rocks Day 5: The weather for our last day on Skye made itself known. All of us ended that day’s hike headed into the wind,…
Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands Days 3 and 4: Sun and Skye Day 3: We had a second day of spectacular weather, fit for a 9-mile hike from Torridon to Coulags (and one might insert a bunch of Gaelic…
Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands Highlands and Islands The first half of my trip has begun: hiking the Highlands and Isle of Skye for 5 days. Met all the people. Not one person who doesn’t call the US home….
Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands First Day in Scotland Three flights. 20 hours in transit, plus an 8-hour time change, plus taxis and waiting for my room to be ready, meant I woke up at 3:00 am on Friday…
Home / Europe / Scottish Highlands Hiking the Scottish Highlands I am about to embark on my next adventure, and it is one I have been planning since before the pandemic. In fact, I had reservations in 2020, before everything…
It had been all about the heat. Now water astounds and torments me. I was so excited to leave hot, hot South Dakota behind and head into Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
I have decided that the van needs AIR CONDITIONING!!!! I thought that by taking this northern route I might avoid oppressive heat. But nobody can avoid the compounding effects of climate change we are
Yes, I knew this would happen. And I know it will happen again on this trip. But the past few weeks have been harder than the first few that were driven by excitement and adrenaline.
“It’s about the journey, not the destination.” Cliche, but apt. It’s why I am taking three months rather than three weeks for this trip. Short drives. Lots of stops. Trying to make time for