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Never give up on your dreams — Part 3
It opens up all sorts of possibilities
This van life can make you a little reckless.
Having completed our scheduled two-week tour of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides and loved every moment of what, for us, was a totally new holiday experience, we disembarked from the ferry at Uig, north Skye and started, somewhat reluctantly, to contemplate the journey home.
As with the rest of the trip, we didn’t have a definitive plan of where we were headed or where we’d be stopping for the night. Destinations and timings tended to be vague and we liked it that way.
It was early evening. We still had plenty of light with the golden hour sunshine casting Skye in all its splendour as we drove, leisurely, along the A87 delighting in every sea loch and mountain view we passed.
Returning to mainland Scotland across the impressive Skye Bridge, at the first roundabout, a spontaneous turn left instead of right at Kyle of Lochalsh took us northwards.
I knew it, of course, but without discussing it, for some reason I felt compelled to turn off the A87 and head further north. It just felt like the thing to do.
For most of my working life over the previous 40-years, I’ve had that unwanted, at times dreaded, feeling of having to…
