Aug 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
(it’s only 61 degrees here now and it seems chilly and i had some hot chocolate and i’m still cold). i just wrote to the owner of the bike touring company, “Hooked on Cycling,” in charge of our scotland trip. i told him that we had a great...
Aug 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
day one of biking: not that hard until we got lost. no rain while we biked. day two of biking: much harder, more hilly, gravelly bike trail. hard rain on and off. and now, day three of biking. this day, tuesday, instead of looping back to Callander, we were headed...
Aug 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
because my new full-time job is editing and posting photos of our trip, i forgot to mention that kevin is going BACK TO SCHOOL! he started his first day of piano class last monday and Lincoln Land. i kept telling him we needed to go out and buy him some new school...
Aug 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
i guess because i waited a few days between posting the first and second parts of our day one biking, kevin forgot that i’d written all about “monty python and the holy grail” being filmed at doune castle, which we visited. he commented about it on...
Aug 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
my, that title certainly rolls of the tongue, doesn’t it? anyway, our first day of biking, Sunday, July 12th – we biked to Doune Castle, a 10 mile, fairly easy ride, and spent a lot of time inside the castle. it rained a bit when we were inside, but then...
Aug 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
ok, i was going to conclude the first day’s cycling photos, but i haven’t done that quite yet, but i just got an e-mail from a lovely english woman named carol. kevin and i met carol and her friend mary when we were travelling home from scotland, and we...
Aug 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
many, many photos. there are so many photos from our first day of biking that i’m only putting half of them up right now. and, of course, this isn’t all the photos; i have attempted to be discriminating. we had a guide book with detailed directions...
Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
saturday july 11th, a good day because we’d had 10 hours of sleep, plus it was sunny and nice in Glasgow. We had the morning to look around until taking a train and a bus to our first cycling town.we wanted to see some of charles renee mackintosh’s...
Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
i just looked at the photos i posted and the nice thing about them is that i’m not wearing that yellow biking jacket and my bike helmet and all that biking stuff. there’s plenty of that to come, but it’s nice to remember NOT wearing the bike...
Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
recently a friend sent me a whole bunch of photos of his vacation. it was one of those photo-sharing things, where you can just view all the photos. i think one time somebody suggested that i do that with my photos; it’d be so much easier. however, quite...
Aug 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
and every day i say to myself I MUST START POSTING SOME SCOTLAND PHOTOS! at least yesterday i started writing donw a list of the ones i want to post, plus ones i want to print out. the problem is that i want to print out WAY TOO MANY OF THEM. we’re running...
Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
as i wrote yesterday, there was no time to prepare for kevin’s birthday. i had a two-hour window of opportunity on monday afternoon to go find him a present. why didn’t i buy him anything in scotland? why didn’t i even think about what to get him...
Aug 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
we got back from our very long vacation on sunday afternoon, but i was too tired to even think about the computer then. and yesterday was a flurry of cleaning and unpacking and lots and lots of laundry… i just looked at all 572 photos that kevin took and there...
