When I walk Scotland, what am I going to do?

1. Walk at least 10 miles of Hadrians Wall
2. spend 3-4 days in Dumfries, and get over to Redesdale, Teviotdale and Liddesdale, as those were the stomping grounds of my Hall ancestors. I'd probably be driving a lot of this.
3. Take the train up to Glasgow, stay in Glasgow for 2-3 days to see the shipping museums and stuff.
4. Take the light rail up to Milngavie and spend the next ten days walking the West Highland Way. This ends at Fort William.
5. Pause the West Highland Way walk a little north of the Bridge of Orchy, and take an overnight detour down into Glen Etive.
6. Take the ferry from Fort William to Oban (I think you can do this)
7. Take a bus or rail from Oban to Inverary, probably 20 miles.
8. Walk the north shore of Loch Awe up to Dunderave, and see Saint Conans Kirk. Also, the *really* ancient MacNachtan Home/fortress is on an island in another Loch, I believe Loch Fyne. I'd need to hire a boat to get out to see that.



Other things to tuck in there.

a visit to John Muirs birthplace in Dunbar
a visit to Culloden moor
4-5 days in Edinburgh
A visit to the Aberlour distillery
competing at the Blairgowrie & Rattay Highland Games, the sister Games to the Livermore Games here in California. This year the Games are on Sunday, September 7th.

It could work out that taking a bus/train from Edinburgh to Blairgowrie, and then hoisting on a pack for the 100 miles or so up to Aberlour would be a good trip as well. That would be about 10-12 days, and my guess is that it gets pretty remote out there.

In other words, I need a month, since I'd have a pack on for 20 days! It'd probably be from around August 20-something to September 20-something.