Microdistillery in Lewisburg, WV with the '03 R1150RS. One produces smooth bourbon and the other smooth power. Mmmmmmmm.
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There's a new girl in the house: a '71 Honda CB750. Right now, she's not quite herself. She's taking a shower in a parts washer, but she'll soon hit the beauty parlor and be back on the road.
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Taken in the port at Thurso, near the Northernmost point in the UK.
Finally home last night at 1030...to find both upstairs and downstairs heat pumps broken. I got the downstairs going again and we slept on the pullout sofa in the living room (well, "slept" is debatable). The time change has us all hosed up.
We stopped at Balmoral on the way down from Dunnet Head, but Liz wasn't there. There wasn't so much as a Corgi to greet us. The NERVE of that woman.
We did see an awesome falcon/owl/hawk show at Dunrobin Castle on the North Sea.
Then we went to Edinburgh for two nights, finishing our trip where we started. We shopped a bit (just a little) and had pizza at our favorite pizza place in Scotland run by the guy who looks like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. We also had our last meat pie and bangers and mash at Milne's and said farewell to our favorite Polish bartender.
The flight was uneventful. BA actually did a good job. We turned in the rental car without incident: just as we were getting the hang of it, too! We even navigated successfully to our lodging in Edinburgh without incident, but our little 1.6 liter Diesel Fiesta had to go back.
Both heat pumps are now fixed and we're getting back to "normal" as defined by us.
Cheers!
M&B
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I had a whole, nice big blog entry written and then the web site puked it somewhere into cyberspace. it's bedtime now, so suffice it to say we saw the Northernmost point in Britain, a shelling beach on the North Sea, a distillery, a castle, a falconry demonstration, and now we're in a hotel in Aviemore at the foot of the Cairngorm Mountains. St. Andrews Ale. Balmoral tomorrow to see the Queen and the Corgis (well, the Corgis will do). Night.
Damn web site.
M&B
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This was the view from our room in the Rosedale Hotel in Portree. Yeah, it really stank, but we suffered.
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