Last photos from the group portion of the trip. Basically just a train trip to Glasgow. Cool. What were the highlights of this portion? Being well-rested on the train was great, everyone was in high spirits and the scenery was great. In Glasgow, Brendan and I immediately went to TGI Friday’s where I drank a […]

So Fort William is a great place to spend an afternoon. Possibly not the best place to spend an afternoon and two evenings and part of a morning, but hey, how would you know that until you’d done it? Or until you’d read this, which until recently, wasn’t even possible. After we got to town […]

This is going to be the last post including pictures of me wearing my sikk trail gear. Bummer. Friday we finished our mostly last day on the trail. It was a pretty long day, starting with an initial ascent up um.. I dunno, a few hundred feet. A thousand feet? Not as high as we’d […]

Morning! Today was the day we’d been afraid of since we first heard about it. We had to climb the Devil’s Staircase! If that doens’t intimidate you, then.. you were not one of us. We got a pretty early start, being on the trail before 9am, which might not seem early, but I was proud […]

Today: smooth sailing. Wide trails, long, slow inclines, followed by long, slow declines. Giant valleys, beautiful rivers, dead deer, live deer. WE made pretty decent time, probably on account of the slowness of the altitude changes, it still felt good to be early. We couldn’t stay at the hotel at the end of the trail, […]

So the Drovers Inn is where we stayed last night. IT’s super old, it’s haunted, it’s full of taxidermy. They serve vegetarian haggis (supposedly), the bathrooms are carpeted and on every other floor, and it has a fabulous whisky selection. Highly recommended! ****!

You guys, for the next few days, I’m going to pretty much just be walking with a group of dudes, complaining about bugs, and trying to not tell the same story a third time, so I’m not sure how much narrative these posts deserve. So I’m gonna be kinda rushed. Anyhow, what’s important? Remember how […]

Hey dudes! So even though I haven’t yet posted pictures from our days in Edinburgh, I wanted to skip ahead so I could let everyone (my mom) know what we’re up to as we’re up to it. So this is from earlier today, and then hopefully some time in the future I will get around […]

In Edinburgh, we all met at the train station. First class to Glasgow, cause we’re fancy, another train to somewhere.. like, Balloch or something. Taxi to our hotel, check-in, have snacks, enjoy the view, get ready for the next day. Hardly worth a post, truth be told, but there’s a few pretty pictures.

Man, I’ve been waiting to use that title for a long time. One of my biggest problems with the second largest city in Scotland is knowing how to pronounce it. I remember the spelling, I think, because there’s a city of a similar name in Texas, and one guy I met from there told me […]