It’s almost surprising how quickly our tenth anniversary is sneaking up on us. With Mark’s graduation this coming spring, and our anniversary, we realized that we wanted to do something very special. More specifically, we want to go somewhere special.

I’m a planner. I can certainly be spontaneous, but I can only do it when I have the comforting solidity of a plan behind me. I have a nagging fear that we’ll miss something if I don’t know where things are, what I want to see, and which map sheet to unpack.

I like this idea! In that first flush of enthusiasm, I must admit that I went a little berserk at the bookstore. Ok, maybe more than a little. On-line bookstores ( such as Amazon , and Barnes and Noble) are just so convenient and, well, I was never one to pass up an opportunity to […]

Ok, I’ve now filled a bookshelf with maps, guides, brochures, notepads and a wide assortment of catalogs. I’m ready to plan!

The basic plan for the overall trip is simple: we want to head up the east coast wander around in the Highlands, and then head back down the west coast and islands. It’s a lot of ground to cover, but we figure if we start in Glasgow and just sort of loop our way around, […]

British Airways just started non-stop service to London from Denver. I wish we would have been ready to go in September — the promotional fares were only $99 each way. Of course, knowing airlines, it was probably only one seat on the entire plane each flight, and you had to share it with the beverage […]

And the arguments we are having over a car we haven’t rented yet! One piece of advice that I’ve received from several people who have travelled in the UK has been this: Get the smallest car you can comfortably drive, and get the collision insurance. Makes perfect sense. They drive on the left side of […]

There are things that I can laugh at Mark about, too. Don’t think that this is all one sided! First thing, for years, the only cameras that we owned were a series of semi-disposable point-and-shoot models from Target. Nothing fancy, you know those $30 cameras? Considering that we never took pictures at all (I think […]

I don’t have a passport yet, which leads me to the next exciting adventure in travel planning. Traveling from the U.S. to Scotland requires a passport, but does not require a Visa (unless you plan to stay longer than 30 days). I was pleasantly surprised to find that you can download the forms to apply […]