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Travel Blogs from Drymen
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
So we're at the stage of planning everything. We know the basic route we want to go on, first Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands for a while as mark is heading out to work there for a bit then we can head to South America to travel around until the money runs out. Now we need to get all the details sorted but its difficult to know how much to plan because you don't want to be stuck ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... eyebrows which took up three quarters of her forehead informed me I was in the wrong seat! Which was a shame because I seemed surrounded by decent, chatty folks especially the bloke JIm sitting nesxt to me. Fortunately, the lady whose seat it was kindly offered it to me which I was immensely relieved about when I spied a particularly leery looking gent next to her looking disappointedly in my direction!
It transpired Jim was from Prestwick and ...
Time-Travelling Loch Lomond
... the clan through which the chiefdom was passed, unfortunately, as they seem to have been a family of natural leaders. In the late 1690s, the chiefdom fell to a man particularly ill-suited to the job, Archibald of Kilmanan, who owned the Inversnaid lands. Archibald had fallen into alcoholism after the deaths of his parents and brother. Recognizing his responsibilities when he was named clan chief, he rallied to put his troubles aside and perform ...
My last day in Scotland -
... in my own bed that night. And so, credit card at the ready, I bought my new ticket, called my hubby, and boarded my flight which got me home at midnight.
The trip was life changing in ways I haven't completely understood yet. That I was able to manage the rigors of the trip, and end it feeling better than when I began, has given me hope for the future. We are already planning our next overseas jaunt for 2012. I am focused on living and life is very good!
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