Scots memorial ride 2012
April -as always- is punctuated by the ride to Scotland to take part in a memorial ride for a fallen rider (Greg)
this year, Tucker and I rode to MiT and waited fro the other 16 riders from south of the border (and had coffee and bacon sarnies while we waited, of course)
MiT
On their arrival, we immediately set off with Tucker leading to Alston on my favourite road B6277.
a quick stop for fuel there and then continue to Hexham and the Falstone cafe for lunch (at which point I realised we had lost 2 riders due to a puncture prior to MiT) From there it was was north to Hawick with my lead.
Falstone
After Hawick I managed to lose everyone else and waited for them further north (they had gone to the Hizzy memorial without telling me) Nevertheless we all managed to arrive safely at Edinburgh for a drinkee night out with Grumpy, Chyrel, et al
pub
NExt morning was te ride proper with Davy (Grumpy) leading us thru to Stirling services. Where we met more riders. Then on to the Green Welly and Further on to Oban for fash and chaps.
As usual, we hit it lucky with the weather and had glorious blue skies the whole day!
After Oban we headed thru GlenCoe to the Scotsbrugring, where Tucker, Emma, Martin, Al, Fordy and myself bade farewell and headed north on the amazing A87 to Applecross. A fab ride got us there past incredible scenery …and a majestic highland stag crossing teh road right in front of me!
-only to find great little elf barns for us to sleep in that night. 
Elf barns
(after lush hot showers, that is)
Next day and we set off across to Isle of Sky (for coffee) on the rest of the fantabulous A87 and then back to the Green Welly and then on to Glasgow to stay at Angels in Uddingston. it started to rain a little that afternoon but not enough to dampen out enthusiasm!….
ANGELS
Al and Fordy went their seperate ways from Glasgow and I left the rest at the A68 junction to head back home
a FABULOUS trip….. as always…with great company
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chuggy
Hi Chuggy,
I never know where you’ll be when I write. What part of the world are you now? You certainly get the miles in. When do you have time for the day job?
Nothing too exciting to report from this end. Still busy taking photos and selling quite a few. My latest toy is an IR night trail camera like you see all the wildlife TV experts use. Great fun I used it in Ecuador and showed the locals what they had in their garden at night. Amazing. Guans, kinkajous & possums etc etc. We then visited the Galapagos…………………Wonderful. A must before it’s trashed by the tourists.
We spent time in Canada in May, Finland soon and then our next major trip is to be Uganda = Kenya without the tourists! If all goes well I’ll get out there in the New Year for a few days to do a recce and then we’ll all go in a Land Rover 110 with tents in 2013.
Where next for you?
Trevor