Argyll and Bute, Scotland

I've been very much looking forward to this ride with a good friend in Scotland. I picked up a hired (rented) bike in Helensburgh and we crisscrossed the John Muir Way as we rode over the hills and through a glen between Loch Lomond and Gare Loch. We began and ended in Helensburgh, a cute...

Armstrong Tartan

I arrived in Glasgow this morning and my first stop was to pick up a scarf in the colors of a deep ancestral line - the Armstrong Clan. My paternal grandmother was an Armstrong, and her ancestors trace back through southern England and the Isle of Man (1700s) to the Castleton area north of Edinburgh...