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...

I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say that expectations almost always exceed reality. We all have that one exception; maybe an "unreal" concert; maybe that magical moment at a school dance we'll never forget; but more often than not, we are left disappointed. I feel like there is this underlying sense of guilt or shame associated with dashed...

"Sing me a song of a lass that is gone. Say, could that lass be I?" Just like the many who jumped on the Highland bandwagon to chase after Jaime Fraser, Scotland was at the top of my bucket list. The pictures of the craggy, breathtaking landscapes called to my very soul—and to my desire for my own kilt-wearing cowboy. I traveled to Edinburgh by pla...