Today was our final day at our Duirinish cabin. The plan was to return the bikes and slowly make our way down to Glasgow. We weren’t sure how the roads were going to be, because remember how early I said south of us was getting 7 inches of rain? Well, Read more…
Well, it is a good thing we didn’t have to drive to Glasgow today, because south of us got 7 inches of rain overnight. Yeah…that is a lot, even for Scotland. Anyway, it still rained plenty near us, so we used today to go finally tour a distillery. On our Read more…
Today ended up being mostly a mountain biking day. We were getting our money’s worth! Especially since we kept riding them straight into the mud on wet AF days… After another tasty breakfast, I loaded up on Scottish Gatorade and did a solo trek. First I rode over the fire Read more…
After our scouting mission the previous day, GMac and I thought that it might be cool to take the rest of the fam to Plockton and do some more exploring. Unfortunately, today was the day we had to say goodbye to GMac and The Twin as they had to get Read more…
Obviously, because we’re in Scotland, we better go check out some distilleries and drink some Scotch…which is called just “malt” or “whisky” here. I’m going to make sure to tell my friend Greg that every time he mentions Scotch. We had already dipped into a few bottles of the local Read more…
Because the forecast didn’t say 2+ inches of rain like it did for the days after this day, GMac, The Twin, and I decided to go for a mountain bike ride. We did this pretty dope loop, as shown on the Garmin link: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/12162007253 And here’s a screen shot for Read more…
Today it was time to leave our lovely seaside Inn and head for a tiny village called Duirinish. This village is so small that most locals in and around the Gairloch area really didn’t know where we were going. We took the “long” way through Torridon, which was a cool Read more…
The weather forecast for every single day so far has been awful. Basically, we are to expect wind and rain all day. However, we keep getting lucky, and the rain is staying away! We ended up making today a BEACH day because we don’t know when the weather is going Read more…
Today we hopped right into the action to do some whale watching. It turns out Gairloch is right on the coast, even though the body of water nearby is called “Loch Gairloch”. I sort of just assumed Loch means “Lake” because of “Loch Ness”, but I bet it has something Read more…
Scotland has a decent train and bus system, but we wanted to really get out in the Highlands, so we rented a car. Now, as some of you know, they drive on the wrong side here, which I expected to be an absolute mindfuck. To practice driving, I bought an Read more…