The two most comprehensive guidebooks I could find arrived today from Amazon.com. One on the West Highland Way and one on the Great Glen Way, both from Rucksack Readers. Each is waterproof and has a 1:100,000 scale fold-down map. The itineraries they suggest almost perfectly match the ones in LonelyPlanet's Walking in Scotland, so my itinerary shouldn't change too much. I'm now confident that I can put together a very specific itinerary with when and where I'll buy food and fuel (and alternatives of course), and how I'll be spending my nights, whether a campsite, free campsite, or wild camping.
Still have to get colorful spare stakes and salt/pepper shakers.
The guidebooks have the most amazing photos of the landscape. This has gotten me so excited. The land over there is so varied: open grassy/mossy areas, bog, ranges, forests, and my favorite land formations ever....cobbles, totally isolated hills that rise out of the middle of a flatland or in the bottom of a valley. So cool. I used to dream of building a house right on top of one in Vermont. I had a specific one in mind, it's on the drive from Lincoln to Burlington.
72 hrs....
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