In five hours, the same time it takes me to drive home to Atlanta, Georgia, from Florence, South Carolina, we traveled from the top of Scotland to the Yorkshire Dales in England. They are famously bleak with endless rolling hills and valleys. It is the sort of place, as Mama Kay said, that helps you to understand the minds of the English literary g...

"Merry of soul she sailed on a day over the sea to Skye." In one of our first interactions with a native Scot, we were told that the Western coast of Scotland was the most underrated and the most beautiful. With no prior frame of reference, we weren't quite convinced. After all, the Highlands were already breathtaking. Surely it couldn't get better...