Glasgow to Lanark

What time is it? Alarm and wake up call didn’t happen. We woke up to buses at nine. Good thing for those buses.

Caution: Oncoming Cars in middle of road.

Twenty’s Plenty is a road sign for the speed limit.

Said a quick prayer once we got in the car and off to Lanark from Glasgow. Took the wrong rode in the first 3 minutes and knew that this drive was going to be awesome. Good thing Google let us look at the map even if we were offline. Because the way Google took us to the hotel…well lets just say “just off the road on the right” means turn right on the road where A72 dead ends into and follow this until you see the sign. We eventually found the hotel after quite a few driving mishaps and one driving adventure into the Scottish Hills.

The Clyde Tourist Information Station was not an actual building so much as a map on the side of the road. The trail next to the map turned out to be a cow pasture so we decided to get back in the car and drive away. Once we went through Lanark twice without seeing the hotel we got off the road and devised a plan of attack. We say a sign for a lookout point and turned toward it. Eventually we found ourselves on a one way road that was a little scary. There was no way to tell if a car was coming the other way over the hill and we finally reached the top of the hill to the “lookout point” we couldn’t even stop because the gate was locked. Going back down the hill was scary too. Favorite quote of the day so far was said by mother “The old people behind me need to stop being so close to me. Go find a cow to talk to!”

When we got to the hotel we decided to walk to the Loch across the town. Had we known how much walking that was we would have risked it with the car. Two mile down on the left is a Loch (lake) and we got to see it. After a really long walk we stopped at the Lanark Aviation Museum (half way) and then kept walking to the loch. Beautiful views. Long walk. Tired and exhausted from the day’s events. Sleep calls to me! We are headed to Edinburgh tomorrow!

You stay classy…