Planning The West Highland Way
Negotiating a trip with a partner is no small feat! Sometimes compromises must be made. And made. And made!
Anyone married or in cahoots with a travel partner is familiar with the “push and pull” of negotiating holidays and vacations. That might be why I usually travel solo. Just get on the plane and go!
After several solo trips, I decided it was time to get my husband to go somewhere with me.
I begged him to walk the Camino de Santiago, but no, no, no. He wanted to go somewhere English was spoken.
“But they speak English everywhere!” I reasoned. “You can talk with pilgrims on Camino from all over the world, and I speak Spanish!”
Nope. But he would go to Scotland and England, so I began researching.
The West Highland Way — an old trail with great challenges and views — was the ticket. I researched and planned.
There were caveats. The husband would only go if I also made sure we went to in Patrington, England while we were in the UK.
He researches ancestry, and his people were from Patrington, England.
Okay, okay. I’ll make it work. I checked a map. Fort Williams, the culmination of our trip in Scotland was up in the Scottish Highlands. We’d have to cut a swath southwest, down, down, down…
