Trip to Scotland 1983: Four and half months in the Highlands and Islands

[DCampbell16B]

10p shower
62p lunch
86p F+C
10p card

Walked to Dunstaffnage. Past piper (Oban band) practicing. Dunstaffnage Marine Research right next door [thought about applying for a job]. I don't have my telephoto or flash. Oh well. Castle is closed Thurs afternoon and all day Friday! Darn! Argyll's Reg't under order, if they refused to obey they were under death sentence. Perhaps Glenlyon realized that he could accomplish with a military unit what civilian highlanders would not do. [Not sure about my ramblings here. Certainly no evidence I'm aware of, and no access to anything to support or refute.] Female Aussie Campbell in hostel this morning. Walked back to Oban. Went to McDonald Mills, no big deal except Miss or Mrs Wilson who said "Tha e fluich" and "Tha e blath". Disappointing g as first Gaelic in Scotland. Go back and buy tea. Ask in Gaelic and surprise her. Clearing this afternoon. Wrote Carolyn.*** Keep eye on weather for pic. On hill again. Very clear but clouds over some peaks and sun only shine [unreadable]. But that is how I imagined Scotland. Bring [unreadable] home?
[Here follows a list of pictures I took, some of which I seem to have lost.]
Dunstaffnage
North Lismore, East Morvern, West Benderloch
Sound of Kerrera, Tom Soillear distance? Ker right, Lorne left
Meall Riaghian, Ben Cruachan, Glen Etive left, Pass of Brander right
Sound of Mull, Mull (Duart) left, Lady's Rock, Lismore, South Morvern

Evening Haze building up again over Mull


Dunstaffnage


Meall Riaghian, Ben Cruachan, Glen Etive left, Pass of Brander right



Journal page.

***[Carolyn was my 8th grade crush. We kept in touch, and even went out a bit while we were in college. I heard later that this card arrived at a bad time for her. Two years after we were married. We still are.]

[I used to, and still do sometimes, look at the Oban Webcam to watch the ferries. My daughter and a friend took a trip to England and Scotland. When she was in Oban she drew this picture on the back of a card and sent it to us.



I just happened to be looking at the Oban Webcam that day and saw her and her friend walking across the North Pier. Not planned, although I knew they were in the area. What were the chances? ]