How Many Remote/Lone Kilters Out There

**way2fractious** · 11th April 08, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Tommie

Are you kidding me? Another kiltie in this town!
I live in hickville bubba country called Beaver Dam,Kentucky.

Well... uh... I did pass through your town - very briefly - last September on my way from Morton's Gap to Leitchfield, following US 62 (not the parkways, they frown on cyclists using the motorways.) I recall that stretch from McHenry to Beaver Dam and out through Rosine, Horse Branch, and Caneyville as a wonderful area of Kentucky.

However, I rarely donned my kilt during the day, usually only at the end of the day's ride... so that's probably why you missed seeing me.

Of course, I didn't see you in your kilt, either. Maybe next time...

w2f (on a once-in-a-lifetime trip)

**Mike in Dayton** · 11th April 08, 03:50 PM

In Dayton I sometimes wonder. Based on St. Patrick's day at the pub there are kilts in the area but they make themselves scarce the other days of the year.

**Makeitstop** · 11th April 08, 04:28 PM

I am in a small college town which is hardly remote, but I don't usually got to the nearby towns, and the nearest city is 27 miles away. The only other person I have seen in a kilt around here is still in diapers, and I'm the one who gave it to him.

I know there are at least two other people who own kilts here, but neither will wear them publicly. And every once in a while I hear someone say "I know a guy whose father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate wears a kilt" but that's about it.

It is a little weird being the only guy who wears a kilt around here, but it's not all bad. I get all the attention, I'm known for something other than being an evil genius for a change, the ladies seem to like it, and I can't help but laugh at all the people who stare. In a small town like this, a few full time kilties could change all that.

**Phicong** · 11th April 08, 04:36 PM

I live in Kissimmee, FL and have never seen another person in a kilt in my entire life except for the one time I went to the Orlando Celtic gathering. People ask me on occasion if I am involved in ren fairs and Celtic games and I reply, "Not really, I just like wearing a kilt." Several women have said they like the kilt on me.
Gordon

**Clockwork John** · 11th April 08, 06:05 PM

For me, a kilt night is any night I wear a kilt...

I've seen one other kilt in my area, but it was on a student where I work, and any sort of friendship/hanging out/fraternization between employees and studentsis strongly discouraged...

My wife has seen 2 men in kilts where she works...
There's a pipe band that is based about an hour from me, but as far as I know, now of them wear their kilts unless they are piping...

I have yet to encounter anyone else kilted near me. I've considered loaning one of my cheap kilts to a friend just so I won't be alone.

**J.B. Simpson** · 11th April 08, 06:51 PM

I'll be the only one here in this small town (400 people) when my kilts arrive. The nearest place to run into another kiltie is Spokane which is 60 miles from me. Maybe, or should I say hopefully, others will get the inclination to wear one after they get used to seeing me in mine.

**Tommie** · 11th April 08, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by way2fractious

Well... uh... I did pass through your town - very briefly - last September on my way from Morton's Gap to Leitchfield, following US 62 (not the parkways, they frown on cyclists using the motorways.) I recall that stretch from McHenry to Beaver Dam and out through Rosine, Horse Branch, and Caneyville as a wonderful area of Kentucky.

However, I rarely donned my kilt during the day, usually only at the end of the day's ride... so that's probably why you missed seeing me.

Of course, I didn't see you in your kilt, either. Maybe next time...

w2f (on a once-in-a-lifetime trip)

That is so way kewl.A lot of history in all those small towns.
We take US 62 to visit my wifes brother in Litchfield.
Like the back way better than the WK parkway.Lot more scenic.
I have allways dreamed of taking the old route 66 to California if its still there.
Maybe some day.

**Bugbear** · 11th April 08, 07:28 PM

Tommie, no there is no route 66 anymore. There are pieces of it here and there, but it was replaced by I 40 back in the seventies, or at least the part in New Mexico that I lived next to was replaced at that time. If you want to take I 40 though, I think it's kind of the same path.

**Roan Carter** · 11th April 08, 07:31 PM

I live in a small Tennessee town and I'm pretty much alone in my kilting.

I have two friends who have kilts, but they do not wear theirs out and about. I wear mine almost daily. It's great that XMtS connects me to other kilties, because there really aren't any near me.

It takes a little guts to be the only guy in town that does it. But I've found that now people know me long before I know them, simply because I'm the guy in the kilt.

**Standard** · 11th April 08, 09:36 PM

There is another guy here in our town of about 20,000 who has a kilt that I know of, but I can't remember seeing him in it outside of Burns night. Up until this last year when I got my first kilt he was the only one I had ever seen in our town with a kilt on.

Definately no kilt nights here, unless you count when my wife and I go out for a nice meal and I wear mine.