Hello, dear friends! So sorry for the radio silence for so long… It’s been crazy busy around here, and without much time for my usual outdoor activities, I haven’t had too much to post about. BUT! Part of the silence is due to the fact that I was gone for a little over a week, back to the fam’s motherland – SCOTLAND! The Johnston clan (Dad, Mom, and I) flew over there to do quite a bit of traveling, sight seeing, and scotch tasting. Oh, and there was lots of good wine and good food. Shocking, right? Just kidding. My grandparents, KK and Bo, spent a lot of time traveling Scotland (being Scottish, and all…), so we had an impressive quantity of notes on which to base our schedule. Bo even set up my parents’ Scotland honeymoon schedule 32 years ago! He really couldn’t steer us wrong, and it was an amazing trip with fortunately glorious weather. Even though we didn’t have time to do the fly fishing at Inverlochy that I was hoping to squeeze in due to the outgoing flight schedule, we were able to enjoy a little skeet shoot while we were there. {More on that in another post!} I think I have already talked Dad into going back to do more of the ridiculously fun/impressive hunting and fishing during the appropriate seasons before long!

I took a ton of pictures, so the trip will be broken up into a few posts. Despite my list-making tendencies, I somehow didn’t remember the charger for my GoPro, so you’ll be getting the goodies I got on my Canon and iPhone. Don’t worry- there is still plenty to see!

Flying into Glasgow early in the morning and heading immediately to Edinburgh, we spent a day wandering around the city, taking in sights like the Palace of Holyroodhouse and Edinburgh Castle, and discovering little whiskey shops and pubs on quiet, quaint streets.