Beyond the Great Glen Way - What’s Next?
“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.” Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Making Trail Choices With Wainwright’s Coast to Coast, the Pennine Way, the West Highland Way, and now the Great Glen Way behind us, we found ourselves at a point of decision. We have only a few days remaining before returning south to Southampton to reboard Queen Mary 2 for the voyage back to New York , and then onward to Canada, where we will take a train - the Canadian - back across the country home before returning to our ongoing #Hike4Birds there. We have enough days remaining – left either as contingency should one of the earlier trails take longer than expected, or if the opportunity to continue on presented itself. Yet standing here in Inverness, at the end of the Great Glen Way , the choice was no longer theoretical and was tempered by the fact that we were now very tired – perhaps more than we were allowing ourselves to fully...