I never would have guessed it, but back in 1998 I came within a few minutes of my future Estate in Scotland!

Yes, I have been to Scotland once in my life already, and in my excitement after checking out the Highland Titles website and making my decision to become a Lady of Glencoe I suddenly had this niggling feeling of familiarity – had I been here before?  Not quite deja-vu, but something was ringing a bell deep in my memories.  Glencoe, hmmmm, what was it?

And then I remembered!

I ran over to my photo trunk and dug around until I found the travel map from my Scotland trip and the journal notes that I had saved.  And there it was!  Aha!

Right near Glencoe forest was where we had driven, just a few minutes up the road.  I wanted to stop and pick some heather for my journal and my sweetie at the time, Gavin, thought that was pretty cheesy but he stopped anyway on the side of the road.  There was nobody around, it was beautiful, and I was taking my time doing my thing when all of a sudden Gav ran back to the car, hopped in, and drove off leaving me behind!

Don’t worry, he came back for me a few minutes later laughing his head off, and I actually enjoyed the little stint of solitude out there.  And I still have my wee bit of heather wrapped in the aluminum foil from a lifesaver wrapper, tucked away with my journal.

I’ll share some more memories and photos from that past trip soon…