My wife and I just returned home from a month long, 10000 mile train journey from the San Francisco Bay Area up to Vancouver, then across Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia--and back! GREAT trip!! I didn't run into many kilties, but I did see a few while touring the Halifax Citadel.

FYI, the piper, originally from Hong Kong, learned how to play the pipes on Skype! He came to Halifax and won a prestigious competition (can't remember which one offhand). Needless to say, he could really make the pipes go.