2023-10 Scotland

Scotland, finally

This was a trip to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. It was initially scheduled for 2020. Covid. We rescheduled for 2021. Covid. We rescheduled for 2022. Wendy got Covid the week before the trip. Finally, in 2023 we got it done in October. We celebrated our 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th wedding anniversaries on this trip.

This album is more of a travelogue than a photography exhibition. I really like a lot of the shots here but many of them are just documentary or informational in nature, like the pictures of each view from the hotel windows, especially on night two of that beautiful airconditioner view in the Glasgow hotel.

We arrived to the worst rainfall in 30 years and our route to Crinan was blocked, so we never got there. The next day we just tried to get back on track and we did that. Our guide/driver Neil was amazingly calm throughout, and that kept us calm. He was even calm 30 minutes into the first day of our trip when we were rear-ended in traffic. If this had been a self-driving trip I would have lost my shit. It was great to have someone else handle the adversity of the flooding and the minor car accident.

The first several days were spent traveling. The last two days were in Edinburgh with Rich Dyson, a local photographer. Rich's knowledge of Edinburgh and the surrounding area was extensive and he put me in the right place at the right time over and over again to capture some great photos. Only a few of them are posted here.

All in all we saw a LOT of Scotland. I highly recommend a similar trip to anybody that wants to see Scotland. Ours was awesome.