Because We Can

There is something unusual about this photo. First it's not raining and second notice how calm and placid the water is. We had to look around to make sure the boat had actually docked in Scotland. Bad Bob. Jeff, of Jeff and Val, our winter neighbors, traces his ancestry back to the best part of Scotland. That is where we are today, the Orkney Islands, or as I like to tease him the Ornery Islands. Double Bad Bob. A photo of our local guide who was anything but ordinary. The have really been blessed throughout this trip with only one exception having local guides that are far far above the norm. It's not just having local knowledge it's how you impart the knowledge that makes a guide special. As far as local knowledge, her family had actually lived in this area for some 400 years and it was only in the last 50 years that their form had been sold out of the family but that didn't mean they still didn't live here. It turns out the population of the is...