BOUND FOR SCOTLAND: Taking the high road!

8/12/15

Our agenda this Wednesday morning was to finish packing our bags, pack the food we still had in the kitchen and bought at the grocery store the night before which was to supply our on the road picnic & snacks. Back home we called our road snacks goody bags, but here we would have to call them goody boxes. It took 2 good sized boxes, which was soon to prove a questionable addition to our personal baggage!

Transporting 6 pieces of luggage, plus a stroller, a travel bed bag, 2 boxes of food, and backpacks, down 3 flights of stairs was for the most part assumed by our son, and placed on the sidewalk as we awaited our taxi. We were a bit concerned that we would be able to cram 4 adults, 2 children, 6 large suitcases, plus a stroller, a travel bed bag, and two good sized boxes into the taxi when it arrived. But to our grateful surprise, when we closed the taxi doors nothing was left sitting or standing on the sidewalk.

Next stop: Enterprise car rental

The taxi proved to be more accommodating to carrying all of our luggage etc., than the van we had rented. When we had exhausted all of our ideas about how to fit everything in, we came to the conclusion that it just wasn't going to happen. Fortunately, the kind people at Enterprise (yep, just like the US) allowed us to store one of our big pieces of luggage in their office until we returned. We were relieved and surprised.

SOME OF THE SCENERY ALONG THE WAY

Hollyhocks apparently grow wild here, for it seemed that everywhere we went these lovely flowers decorated the landscape.

Now, these hay bails lying patiently in the fields, made me feel right at home. Living in the back corner of hayfields as we do, we witness this kind of scenery often.

The view of the Firth of Forth bridge from the highway as we left Edinburgh.

IMAGES OF OUR TRAVEL

We were packed pretty tightly on the first part of our journey. Not a lot of leg room as those two boxes I wrote of earlier had to be held in our laps–Bob held one and I held the other! This was only temporary, however, for eventually we pulled over to the side of the road and hauled out our picnic lunch. We ate as much as we could with the intention of eliminating the boxes and stuffing the remainder under seats, etc.

Shep, enjoying a snack, in the midst of tightly and creatively packed luggage!

Keeping this little guy fed and dry was about all that was required to keep him contented. Shep and Roscoe have grown accustomed to traveling and they do it well!