Current location: Edinburgh, Scotland No one had ever actually dared me to eat haggis while here in Scotland, but given the way certain members of

Current Location: Edinburgh, Scotland When I first started planning this trip two or three years ago, I bought a pair of hiking boots by Clarke

Current Location: Loch Ness, Scotland A month or so before leaving for my trip, I read a newspaper article about another university-sponsored expedition to track

Current Location: Edinburgh, Scotland This morning, with my cash situation all squared away and my bags more or less packed, I finally got to leave

Current Location: Glasgow, Scotland Like a fungus, it grows on you. Glasgow, that is. On today, the approximate anniversary of the day that I proposed

Current Location: Glasgow, Scotland So here I am in Glasgow, one of the two Really Big Cities in Scotland. I’m not sure what I was

Current Location: Wigtown, Scotland A– and I left Ireland yesterday, after deciding that we’d had enough of Westport (actually, I think I could spend another

Current location: Westport, Ireland So last night, A– and I returned to Westport. We were both in bad moods; she’s been on the road a

Current location: Westport, Ireland On Inis Mór, A– and I decided to part ways. She wanted to stay on the Aran Islands for a few

Current location: Westport, Ireland I’ve always heard about black pudding. I’ve never really known what it was, but I’ve been hearing about it all of