We stayed up most of the night before leaving for the airport on Friday morning in an attempt to get ourselves adjusted to GMT before even leaving Seattle. It’s unclear if it helped the cause, made things worse, or somewhere in between. What is clear is that our trip started off on a negative note.
After […]

After an unfortunate overnight delay in Chicago on the way home from London, we are home and rested after the trip. Scotland was amazing. We enjoyed every minute of our journey around countryside and all of the experiences we had.
In the coming days I will be making individual posts creating an ‘ex post facto’ […]

After one week of successfully ignoring the internet, we’re making contact from the east coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
It’s been beautiful here, when the weather has permited. Even when it hasn’t the snow and rain haven’t been too much trouble. We’re off to Loch Ness this afternoon before making our way back south […]

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with Google Earth while planning possible options for our upcoming road-trip around Scotland. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s important for me that we leave our options open for spontaneity, but there’s nothing wrong with a basic plan… right?
We’ll have 5 days to cover a lot of […]

This morning while making final arrangements for travel within the UK next month, I was having trouble visualizing exactly how long it was going to take us to get from point A to point B, and which days we would spend in which areas of Scotland. Without thinking I grabbed a pen to jot […]