Going back to Scotland!! Golf included this time.

[KiltedCoastie]

Awesome, man! They look like some brutal courses to play; I envy you. Don't forget to drink the water of life--visit some distilleries for me and test a dram or two from each.

[Stratherrick]

RobbyMc

Surely you have First People's stuff that is over 400 years old in BC?

That said, having been handfasted in a castle over 1,000 years old and taking the kids today to Hadrian's Wall built almost 2,000 years ago, 400 years ago seems like yesterday! Only joking.

Mind, I have had a lifelong interest in First People's cultures, and totem poles in particular. Maybe I should start looking at their various clothes designs too?!

Slainte

Bruce

[ForresterModern]

Sounds like the wife has already decided on her compensation for me taking the big scotland golf trip already----that didn't take long. She wants to take a disney cruise with our son, who will be 2 1/2 years old then, and her best friend, for the time I will be golfing. I just hope she considers that it and I don't have to keep on caving in on a lot of other little stuff for the next twelve months.

I would love to take a couple fly rods and gear with me to lay into some scottish browns or some pike, but I think it more likely that the only graphite I will be waving this trip will be my Taylormade Burner driver. Between golf every day, and some touring and travelling I think fishing will have to wait, maybe to be the excuse for yet another future trip back to the homeland. We already have caddies included in the golfing so no tagalongs for now. Already did the distillery tours last trip so all I will need is access to a couple bottles of nice Abuna'dh and Tobermory to fill the flasks, and then to the local pubs for a wee bit of the local favorite and some cameraderie for the evenings. We call that "swing lube" where I come from. I am familiar with golf course design and have played seaside links courses in Ireland that should be similar to the designs of St Andrews Old and some of the others----like big cow pastures with tee boxes, bunkers and greens strewn about fairly randomly, so that you kind of need a map to tell which way you are going. My understanding of the St Andrews Old was that originally that design actually allowed the first players to vary the route of each round on a daily basis, until they initially settled on a more fixed circuit, then somebody got the idea it was a more challenging circuit to play it backwards, which is the longstanding current route.

Gonna be a hard wait for the next twelve months--might need to start wearing a bib instead of a tie to catch all the drooling.

j