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<\/a><\/p>\nOn the river there was a fisherman.<\/p>\n
Here, the route turned northeast along the Caledonian Canal that goes up to Loch Ness at Fort Augustus. \u00a0It was raining lightly and I was very tired when I arrived in the village. \u00a0I remembered that the B&B where I was booked was a half mile out of town. \u00a0The phone was busy for about a half hour so I walked.<\/p>\n Reladen with a food package delivered to the B&B, I headed off as heavy as ever the next morning. \u00a0The route when a short distance on the paved road, then onto a dirt road along fields and farms before coming out onto another paved road. \u00a0There are beautiful stone walls here, architected with round and flat rocks in courses, not just piled like the ones in New England.<\/p>\n I took a turn at a path in a break in the wall that turned out to be a few hundred yards short of the one I should have taken. \u00a0It led through the woods onto a dirt road that eventually opened into a clearing with a new house, a statue of a buck and some farm machinery. \u00a0A road went up under an old stone bridge to the right; the map suggested I could regain the route there.<\/p>\n As I was approaching the bridge a pickup truck drove up and the man asked if he could help me. \u00a0I told him I was on the TGO Challenge, just passing through. \u00a0He told me I was on private property and shouldn’t be there. \u00a0I told him I was under the impression that one could walk across private property in Scotland. \u00a0He said that was wrong. \u00a0You can walk on private land in the hills but not near houses. \u00a0He said his boss was an American, and that as an American I should know not to be trespassing.<\/p>\n I apologized, he directed me to the road I wanted and I headed on. \u00a0Very soon after, the route I’d charted had me opening a gate and going within view of an even bigger house, a pink castle surrounded by scaffolding.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n