1. Are you a regular Highland Games attendee
I have been going to the “local” games here in Texas (Salado, Arlington, Houston) more or less regularly since around 1990.

2. Why do you go?
Sometimes I wonder.
I have been an officer in my clan society and always enjoyed the comraderie and being with others of Scottish heritage. In the past few years the “Highland” aspect in parts of the games has been slowly disappearing, and I find it less and less enjoyable than in the distant past. While the piping, dancing and sports scream “Scottish!”, and the clan tents are still there, the vendor midways and music venues have changed. Now the music tends to lean “celtic” rather than traditional Scottish. I was walking to the vendors at Arlington this last June and heard a woman start singing “Foggy Dew”, a ballad of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. While I like Irish folk music, it seemed quite odd to me to hear that at a Scottish festival, especially when one realizes that if there were Scots in Dublin that Easter they’d be shooting at the Irish, but I digress.
The vendors are also disappointing. Used to be several kilt makers and lots of Scottish “stuff”, now it’s almost impossible to find much other than OTR PV kilts and black sporrans. Not that there's anything wrong with these, but at the last games I went to you could buy aluminum siding for your house, hippie style woman’s clothes, walk-in bath tubs and any number of “Dungeons and Dragons” style swords, but a very limited amount of Scottish ware.

3. What are your favorite three things to do at the Games?
Man the clan tent, watch the sports/dancing/piping, Check out the vendors to see if things are changing. It's also fun to see the many interpretations of Scottish attire present. Somtimes I even get good ideas!