Trip to Scotland 1983: Four and half months in the Highlands and Islands

[DCampbell16B]

Mrs. Storrier [address] of Fife. Wants info on 18th C Highland dress for Menzies Castle restoration.
17p ice lolly
56p tea
48p 2 rolls
£1.80 hostel

Ride to Crianlarich. Walked up toward a pass between two hills aptly named on the map as "Bealach Eadar Bheinn" [literally "pass between hills", which were Ben More and Ben A'An (also named Stob Binnein)] by waterfalls. Delightful. Ate lunch at bridge, bottom. Met 5 French, 1 man who played fiddle and guitar. Bluegrass like American ("Freight Train") and some Irish. Also Yorkshireman living in Washington State who played Irish fiddle. Went a bit up the West Highland Way, south of Crianlarich. Hill has[? unclear pencil] sound of drying peat [underneath the surface]. Hillside thumps when hit.
Checked into hostel. [At this point in the journal I changed from pencil to pen. While it didn't and hasn't smeared as much as the pencil, it was harder to write neatly] Ate supper then played pipes on hill behind Crianlarich. What a gorgeous evening. Haze lifted, breeze. Pipes played fairly well. Pleased self, locals and tourists. Met 3 Canadian high-school girls (Ann, Ashley, Alex, all cousins), one thinking of going to SUNY Binghamton [where I had just finished, now Binghamton University], all Campbells. Took them up that same hillside. They've been to Inverary. Bus to Oban 10:50. Couldn't get to castle on Loch Dochart [marked on map]. Water very shallow, but mud deep.