How Many Remote/Lone Kilters Out There

[ghostlight]

I live in Southern California, and we probably have more full time kilt wearers than Scotland. None the less, you almost never run into anybody wearing one unless you are at a renfair or highland games.

I've lived in Los Angeles for two and a half years and have never seen anyone other than myself in a kilt.

I'm moving to central Florida at the end of the month. I wonder if I'll be a novelty there, too?

[Richard]

I live in a small village with a population of 6500 and I have never seen another guy in a kilt and most people I meet it seems that I would be the first person they have seen in a kilt in the flesh so to speak, but I do like the attention I get, why be one of the crowd when you can be an individual

[Bellfree]

The funny thing is how many Scottish clans settled in Sanford and everyone there looks at me like I stepped off of a spaceship.

Apparently, it's happened before: "[In 1739] 350 Highlanders landed in Wilmington under the leadership of Neil McNeill and, according to tradition, left that town because the settlers made fun of their peculiar costumes ...." North Carolina: History of a Southern State, Hugh Lefler, Albert Newsome, p. 72.

[Jerry]

Although there are at least 4 of us in the area encompassing Richmond, Petersburg, Dinwiddie and Amelia, I have yet to meet anyone around here. I actually have met more kilties from Md and Northern Va than from my immediate area.

[Howard Clark]

I've seen others at the Ren Faire, but only one out and about last spring. I am now known around the Presbytery as Howard, "you know the guy in the kilt".

[Amoskeag]

I suspect that there are probably a bunch of kilted folks around here (now before you all go thinking that "around here" means something like New England or parts of Massachusetts or something else like that, I mean New Hampshire. We're pretty parochial "around here". We have to deal with Maine because they are so damn big!) that don't show up on X-Marks. I know of one who regularly lurks; Br. David where are you?
Kilts are pretty well accepted and tolerated in NH. We have a couple of games and lots of Scottish type stuff happening as well as a few Scottish shops (OK I'll admit to sneaking over the line to Queechee, VT once....twice.....a lot......)
I hear Boston is very cool for kilts, maybe I'll go there someday, just kidding! The whole Celtic thing is big in New England and that's a good thing. I don't see a lot on a daily basis but it's not a real shock to people when I do wear mine. Most are polite if not complimentary.
We're still pretty Puritanical in these parts so kilt checks and the like have been rare for me. It could also be due to the fact that I'm old, fat, and ugly but it's my lie and I'll tell it any way I want
I guess I'm pretty lucky to live "around here", people are pretty open minded.
Bob

[Rogerson785]

I am pretty much the only kilted person here in Manhattan Kansas except for Saint Patrick’s Day, but apparently there is a K-State student who is occasionally kilted. I do not mind being the only kilted person that just means more women to admire my kilt and legs.

[fluter]

Tommie, no there is no route 66 anymore. There are pieces of it here and there

I 40 actually starts down thisaway---Wilmington, NC I believe. 66's route joins up with it somewhere in Oklahoma, perhaps?

You can still follow most of Route 66's historical path, but you want to start at Lakeshore Drive in Chicago. See Wikipedia and Google for lots of fascinating info on Route 66.

Another trip that interests me---and is less of an archeological proposition---would be to follow US 52 from Charleston to Chicago. Given infinite vacation time, we could just continue on 66 to LA.

[BLAZN]

I suspect that there are probably a bunch of kilted folks around here (now before you all go thinking that "around here" means something like New England or parts of Massachusetts or something else like that, I mean New Hampshire. We're pretty parochial "around here". We have to deal with Maine because they are so damn big!) that don't show up on X-Marks. I know of one who regularly lurks; Br. David where are you?
Kilts are pretty well accepted and tolerated in NH. We have a couple of games and lots of Scottish type stuff happening as well as a few Scottish shops (OK I'll admit to sneaking over the line to Queechee, VT once....twice.....a lot......)
I hear Boston is very cool for kilts, maybe I'll go there someday, just kidding! The whole Celtic thing is big in New England and that's a good thing. I don't see a lot on a daily basis but it's not a real shock to people when I do wear mine. Most are polite if not complimentary.
We're still pretty Puritanical in these parts so kilt checks and the like have been rare for me. It could also be due to the fact that I'm old, fat, and ugly but it's my lie and I'll tell it any way I want
I guess I'm pretty lucky to live "around here", people are pretty open minded.
Bob

While I was living in Kittery, I went out kilted all the time. Many a lovely waitress enjoyed my presence, as the wife enjoyed knowing she was going to be going home with this kilted goodness.
I never did manage a kilt night, as the nearest popular town was Boston. I wasn't about to make the wife drive an hour each way so I could have a few pints with like minded fellows.

Now, though the family is still in Maine, I live in Hawaii. Supposedly, there are fellow X-Markers on O'ahu, but they have never answered up to any calls for a kilt night. I can only assume they are a myth.

[NewKilt]

Well, I know there are other people in my city that have kilts, at least based on what other people have told me. However, I've never run across another person wearing a kilt. There is a Scottish man who lives here - moved here from Glasgow 14 years ago. Ran into him at a local Mexican restaurant. He spotted my kilt and came over to my table to talk. He was wearing blue jeans and I never thought to ask if he wore a kilt now and then.

I'm American with Scottish ancestry, but was wearing an Irish tartan, He was a born and bred Scot wearing blue jeans. We are both chowing down on Mexican food. Haggis with some taco sauce on it anyone ? It's great that we can so easily enjoy things from different countries.

Darrell