Some travelers like to know everything about their destinations before they depart. I can understand — one reason we travel is to learn about new places and, more practically, knowledge can help you travel efficiently. But I’m partial to not knowing everything in advance, instead leaving plenty of room for discovery. (Of course, it helps — a lot — that my wife is a planner!) The details of this photograph may be a case in point.
After we left the isle of Skye on our recent visit to Scotland we headed north. For me, the idea for that trajectory came from a moment in a video that I saw a few years ago the featured some impressively wild country, along with the fact that we hadn’t been to that part of Scotland before. We happened by this scene more or less by accident while driving north from Ullapool. While I could find this location again if you set me down in the part of the country, I can’t precisely tell you where it is or the names of the lake or the mountain.
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Heh. I suppose you are right. In Scotland a lake is a loch. :-)
Now I have to think about whether to change the title or not…
By the way, we absolutely love Scotland, in case you cannot tell from my posts. We’ve now visited twice for a total of close to a month, and we hope to return.
OUr first visit was, in part, probably a more typical American tourist trip. We landed in Glasgow, then headed to Oban for a few days before going to Fort William to start a one-week walk of the Great Glen Way. We (obviously) arrived in Inverness and then did the real tourist thing, visiting Glasgow (which we loved), Edinburgh and Sterling.
This time we started in Inverness and rented a car. That allowed us (with all due precautions for this right-side driver) to spend a few days on Skye before heading north on more or less the NC500 route. After returning to Inverness and dropping off the rental car, we made a brief visit to Aberdeen, since my wife had long-ago memories of an earlier visit.
It’s a Loch Dan 😉👍