A Whisky Wonderful Day

Hi, All!

A glorious day yesterday, with a stop at the Dalwhinnie distillery mid-day. We bought a bottle of 15 yo whisky, carted it to The Loch of Insh, and had a great time wi'it!  Thusly, not able to write much today, as you might imagine.

We're off to Grantown in Spey today, if we can make it that far, and will try to blog more in the next few days. Giving ourselves a treat for the weekend in Dufftown. You can google it or wait for us to tell more on the blog.

Stay tuned!

Tak guid care, we'll be in touch.

Hi, everyone! In the interest of brevity, we think we'll switch to more of a photo book mode than a story book mode. Saves on the typing, and saves a little time. When there's really good stories we'll be sure to share them, though. Enjoy!!

Here's our last day in Bozeman, as we head to Anaconda to see M's sister and store the truck. This is July 9th...

Final stop at The Spotted Horse in Belgrade. Going to miss their coffee and their awesome atmosphere.

The good old Red Rig ALMOST made it to Karl's place in Anaconda. Vapor locked on the last hill ... Cooled it off a wee and it powered in just find.

Here we are with our buds at The Butte Folk Fest. One last blast with friends at home!

 Us and all our stuff at the airport in Bozeman. That's a lot of stuff! Next stop is Seattle for a long layover and hanging out with my brother, and then on to Iceland!

Our first night in Iceland. Beautiful sunset, and it's about 11:00 pm!! 

 The beautiful church in Reykjavik, called Hallgrimskirka. We unfortunately missed the noontime organ concert, which was a serious bummer. Maybe next time?

 We also stopped at the Blue Lagoon hot spring for several hours of much-needed soaking  had a blast, and then walked around a bit. The lava that makes up the country side is incredibly rugged and unforgiving, and is called Devil's Lava.

 Another beautiful sunset.

 Sitting on the plane after landing at Glasgow. The bikes made it!

 And several hours later... They're built!

 Our first camp in Scotland, after a day riding in the rain from Galsgow. We Wild-camped in the Balloch country park with huge beautiful cedars. We woke up to bagpipes from the highland games going on that day. We must be in Scotland!

 Following Cycle Route 7... Before we got to Aberfoyle. This is near Croftamie.

 Ahh... The Scottish country side!

 Cycle route 7 took us over a very rugged mountain pass on logging roads through the Trossachs. The road was so steep in places that we had to get off and walk, pushing our overloaded bikes up the gravel roads. The scenery made it all worth it, though. Here's some large timber stacks ... Huge!

Again, the beautiful scenery!

At the end of Day 2 we made it to Callender and stayed in a hostel to dry our stuff after 18 miles of riding.

If you want to see our route, Google National Cycle Route 7, and maybe add Sustrans to the search term. 

Now it's about 1:30 in the afternoon, and we're headed to Killen. See you there! 

The Mayhem Continues....

We hope this mayhem ends shortly... The never-ending tasks are, well, never ending!

We had intended to spend this week camping out and testing our gear, but we just haven't been able to do that yet. We've spent a couple nights in the tent in the yard, and will do that until we leave for Scotland.

We've been staying at our friends' place - Tim and Tina's. They've let us crash in the basement, and without their support this would all be vastly more difficult. We have room to sort gear, spread out and work on things, and it's nice to not have to worry about losing stuff. It's also a dry base camp for when the odd Montana July t-storm rolls through! 

Now, I know we should have been out in that rain riding - practice for Scotland, right? Well, we're not quite ready for that... :-)