No asses were left behind. Luckily, since I knew I was not going to sleep on our 6 hour drive to Uig, Scotland, I scored front seat in our van with Al, aka: the Ghost of Glasgow. What a privilege;) to be in charge of the walkie talkie and reading all the directions on his Garmen: Jill whose words were too small for him to read. Front seat did get me the best view of the scenery and a first rate roller-coaster ride. Although we were rushing at each stop to get to ...

Leaving Glasgow today for Arbroath on Harris Island where we will be for quite a few days and will potentially not be able to connect to the web. Bye Glasgow, see you soon.

Today Glasgow and I had a slower start at 8 a.m. because I stayed up until 1:30/2 a.m. getting my Dublin and Homberg excursions squared away, but it will be worth it. Miss. Allison and I went to the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and got to see an impressive installation piece that took up almost the entire floor of the main floor gallery space. It was layers of different grades of sawdust and other fine grade materials....I thought it looked like a 7 layer cake wh...

Day of exploring Glasgow. Started by looking for the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and ended up going to the Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis - the cemetery was amazing. Green overgrowth and headstones ages old and seemingly forgotten overlooking Glasgow from the top of the city. Lunched at the Star Cafe and had chicken tikka and tea. After lunch our group met up and took the underground to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. For dinner a group of us ate at A...

Arrived in Glasgow at 2 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon of May 29th after layovers in Minneapolis, Paris, and Amsterdam. Jet-lag is not too terrible as long as I don't sit down. Had lasagna (tried steak pie which was good) and a local brew for dinner and spent the evening walking around the city centre and along the river. Slept like a rock even after a roomie woke me up at 1:30 a.m. Scotland time saying the alarm had gone off....sleep talking?