We Are Here!!

Thursday 9/29. After first leg of our flight (LAX to Toronto) and finishing up the second leg(Toronto to London), we watched the sun come up from 35,000 feet. No sleep for either of us on the flight as it was too cramped. I sat next to a nice lady from Lebanon who was heading home from Canada. We de-planed around 0900, and caught and underground train from Heathrow to Euston Station (train). We put our bags in lockup and walked to a second station, where we caught the Picadilly train to the Final family home in a small town called Amersham.

We didn't stay long as we had gone virtually 32 hours by that time with no sleep. We headed back to Euston Station and, I'm so proud of Dee, she heard two women across from us on the train who were speaking Italian. She finally spoke to them and ended up having a 1/2 hour conversation with them Just chatted away!! For all her worry, she did GREAT.

Back at Euston Station, we had a light dinner in an American-style diner listening to 60's American music. We still had 5 hours to wait for our sleeper train to Glasgow and it was already 7:00 p.m. A VERY tiring evening. Only thing good was the lounge was air conditioned.

                                                                                                                

Friday 930 - Sleeper train arrived in Glasgow at around 7:25, we de-trained by 7:50. While in Glasgow Central Station, I realized I'd left my boots ON THE SLEEPER TRAIN. The nice ScotRail Duty Manager is tracking them for me and hopefully by the time we hit Glasgow again in two days he will have them. Otherwise I have one pair of shoes for 5 weeks and they are hurting my toes.

Weymss Bay Station

We caught the train from Glasgow Central Station to Weymss (Weems) Bay and then the ferry to the Isle of Bute. It was wonderful seeing the Island come into view and rounding the corner into the Bay that I felt like I knew. 10 years of thinking about it, dreaming and planning and we are here. It's wonderful. We rode a bus to see some of the Island and met Ruthie and Ian who were a wealth of information about the island. Would loved to have spent an hour or two just talking to them. Ian was dressed in green tartan pants, matching tie and some other emblems, pins etc. Very snappy.

Saturday 10/1 Exploring Bute. Writing this while in the local library, after visiting the local museum. This morning we had a really good breakfast in a recommended spot. Tim, the owner is a jazz musician, so we took pics for Kim Davis who is studying Jazz at Sac State.

More later - Becky & Dee