Scotland2005: In Seattle, for one last night

Well, here we are, packed up and ready to go. Off again to Scotland for18 days, almost two years to the day since the last trip! Tony has worked his magic in packing us into two medium sized bags, and we've just buttoned up the house.

In the morning Tony will take the dogs to the kennel while I attend one last fundraiser breakfast with a client. Then it's home, where M&M will graciously take us to the airport, and off we go-- 1st class on Delta (damn the bankruptcy, full speed ahead)to the worlds largest and messiest airport, Atlanta -- then off to London.

Just like last time, we'll endeavor to create an e-mail travelogue of our journey, stopping at Internet Cafe's to let you know what's going on. Itis great fun for us to be able to share our adventure with you, and we hope you have as much fun reading our notes as we do in writing them.

We'll arrive in London at about noon their time on Friday 9/30. We'll spend one night there getting onto "London Time", before boarding a train at King's Cross station for Edinburgh -- GNER Railway's "Flying Scotsman"(and no, not Platform 9 3/4 -- that's the train for Hogwarts). We've booked four nights in Edinburgh, and that's it -- we'll go where our railpass, the roads, or winds take us (and maybe motorcycles too -- sorryMom, but we did find a Harley dealer in Glasgow who will rent us bikes). We have some places we want to revisit, and a huge list of places we haven't yet visited.

Hopefully we'll be able to bring you regular updates, but we do plan ons pending more time out of the bigger cities, and Internet access might notbe as easily found as it will be in London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

So we'll be headed off to bed shortly -- we feel like kids on ChristmasEve, with a nervous energy and butterflies in our stomachs. We'll likely talk to you next from London..

In Seattle, for one last night..