Monday Meander - October 7, 2019

On this first Monday of October, I'm not finding any real forward motion. Oh, there is some motion but it's more of a wander than a direction.

It feels like my whole being - body, mind, and soul - has experienced a whiplash injury from a super slow-motion crash. Nothing is quite connected this morning. I am meandering in the backwash occasioned by jetlag.





Recovery would no doubt be quicker if the cause of this malady were the result of a seventeen-day lie-on-the-beach vacation to some tropical paradise five timezones away, but it wasn't. True to form, my love and I geared up for adventure as we embarked on a journey through Scotland. This bumper sticker was spotted in Loch Àlainn (Lochaline). That's us!

Our journey took us to Edinburgh, St. Andrew's, Ballater, Culloden, Inverness, Isle of Skye, Isle of Mull, Iona, Stirling, and many points in between before ending back in Edinburgh.

Whiskey tasting at The Malt Room, Inverness

Tobermory, Isle of Mull

I also enjoyed a three day English side trip to Wooler and Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland while the man attended a conference in Edinburgh.

Bronze Age Stone Circle at Duddo, Northumberland

Greensheen Hill (above St. Cuthbert's Cave) and I did climb to the top of the outcrop on the right -
well, of course, I did!

By the numbers:

17 days away
200,000+ steps = 128km (80 miles)
720 floors = 2200m (7200feet)
3000 digital photos taken.

The laundry is done. The luggage stowed until next time. All those photos have been uploaded but will have to wait until after Thanksgiving for editing.
Schwartz is on the wagon headed to rehab.

And the Hogwarts Express still plies the Glenfinnan Viaduct.

©2019 April Hoeller