A trip to Scotland.
Once upon a time, for my entire junior year, I left Wabash College and Crawfordsville, Indiana behind and made my way to the University of Aberdeen on the north coast of Scotland. It was the 1988/89 school year.
The other day I came across some letters home I wrote during that year. I guess I was pretty homesick at times and I still kind of marvel at how adventurous I was for a shy kid from Indiana.
I made the most of the year and in retrospect, I suppose it was quite transformational, being so far from home. And Scotland captured my heart.
I've wanted to go back ever since I left. It is a deeply magical place.
I can hardly contain myself over the thought of returning and - this time - showing Melissa around.
God willing, we will start in Edinburgh and then take a train to Aberdeen before renting a car and spending a couple of nights around Loch Ness. From there it will be west to Skye and then south to Oban and a chance to tour a couple of the western isles before heading to the port of Cairnryan to take a ferry to Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Just outside of Belfast is where our friends from Haiti days live - the Edlers - and we will have a couple of days with them before returning to the U.S.
It is the trip of a lifetime and Melissa and I are dreaming and mapping and googling on a daily basis already.
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