My faith in Grayline Tours was re-kindled today. We took a coach tour to Loch Ness, then up to Inverness and back. Thank you Graham. Photos are being flickred right now. I warn you, I am uploading more than 300 right now.

It was an early start to the day. We headed over to a local hotel where our pickup was supposed to happen. There was some kind of accident on the motor way causing our ride to not turn up. We caught a taxi to a second pickup point where our journey began.

The lowlands in Scotland are gentle rolling hills with many sheep, cattle, and fields of crops. Quite idyllic. When you start coming up into the highlands, the land changes entirely. It becomes quite harsh and very hilly/rocky making farming impossible. We saw lots of farm animals, but no crops until the land became so treacherous to make it impossible for animals to be bred either.

We got out of Wycombe just in time to catch the train. It was running a little late and there was little room on the first train to Banbury. The train from Banbury to Edinburgh left at about 1 PM and should take about 6 hours an 20 minutes to get north to Edinburgh. We're in for a long, and perhaps, boring ride. Our daughter is sitting with her game boy playing some little thing. We're sharing the seats with a nice fellow with curly hair who wanted to know how our stay was going so far.

We've had terrific weather so far--it seems that the Saunders Dome of Great Weather is still in affect. Apparently as we travel north, the clouds are gathering in the south and a storm warning is in affect. Up north, it appears that the clouds are breaking and we're going to end up with quite nice weather--scattered showers.