Setting off

May 1, 1999.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Scotland is one of my favorite places, I would go to there every vacation — and in fact, have lobbied hard to actually move there. Friendly people, great pubs, gorgeous landscape, and lots and lots of crumbly castles to track down.

Scone Palace

May 27, 1999.Reading time 5 minutes.

Scone Palace is historically the heartland of the Scoto-Pictish Kingdom, a legend that was perpetuated by King Kenneth MacAlpine in the mid-9th century, when he made Scone the center of the kingdom

Restricted Bridge

May 28, 1999.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A strange test for height, along the road near Huntly — for some bridge somewhere, we think

Loch Eriboll

June 1, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A838 runs right along the northern coast of Scotland and we drove from Thurso in the east along the coast and eventually to Ullapool. The scenery up here is gorgeous.

Travelogue: Day 19

June 2, 1999.Reading time 6 minutes.

Down the western highlands, and across the water to Skye

Travelogue: Day 22

June 5, 1999.Reading time 4 minutes.

On the way to Edinburgh, with palaces and historic buildings