A Week in Caledonia
I began writing this shortly before we left Britain, but then life caught up, and in the chaos of returning to the US, it got set aside. As I write these words now, it has been nearly a month and a half since we landed in the US and a month since we returned to Albuquerque. Life has been… Very good, but very busy since the return. But the memories of Britain and Europe are still strong, and part of our hearts still live there, I think.
So now I flip back through my notes and the feel and scents of Scotland return to me. I will do my best to transcribe some of them, but there’s a great deal to say, so this may take more than one post and some time to get out. (Not aided, I know, by my incurable verbosity.) Think of it as a slow-motion discovery for each of you — you’ll never know when another bit of it will pop up. But I’ll do my best to at least finish up Scotland before, oh, say, Christmas…
One of the final tour targets for the great Rati-Lane British Isles tours was Scotland. We’d been hoping to hit all of the major regions/countries of the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland), but we still missed Ireland. Ah well — good reason to return at some point. ;-)
We had to decide on something, and we had really needed a work-free vacation, so we packed our bags and headed North. A lot happens in a week of intense vacationing, so there’s quite a bit to report. We’ll start with: