Day 7 - Inverness to Thurso

I got to drive again today! Yay! Woke up realy early this morning - 7am really early? Anyway, got up, showered, had breakfast, and hit the road. Was a little sad to see the Inverness hostel go, but onwards and literally upwards! Hit the road (fueled up the car - great little car - have gone over 250 miles at this point, and it was only at half tank!) The driving up to Thurso was a little... um.... topsy turvy? Not my driving, but the roads!!!! Jenn- you will appreciate this - 13% road grades!! And very tight turns... Up and down all along the coast - it was so lovely. A lot of farms along the way - BIG cows and a lot of sheep. It was such a nice drive - up down around - we went to John O'Groats, had lunch there - John O'Groats is the "end of the road" in Scotland - it's the most North-East point of Scotland. (for those of you following along on my map, look at the top right hand corner) It was sunny on one side, then cloudy on the other. Spent a little time walking around, doing a little shopping - it was just so lovely. Got back into the car, and drove to Thurso. Thurso is such a - yes, I'll say it again - LOVELY town. On the sea shore, the town has lots of old buildings. We walked around, did a little shopping, then went grocery shopping at the Co-Op. Back to the hostel as it looks like rain, and, lo and behold! Lisa is here! She's the Aussie we met in Stirling. We're running into the same group of people from time to time - it's nice at this point to see another familiar face.

Anyway, laundry is - pardon the pun... - dirt cheap here, so off to do laundry. Going to try to upload pictures tonight - but no guarantees....

**ADD IN - D and I walked through Thurso again at night - it was 22:30 and the sun wasn't showing any signs of going down. So we went to the beach - there were 4 dudes surfing! We stayed on the beach for over an hour, waiting for the sun to go down, got some pictures, and walked back to the hostel. Spent a little time talking to Lisa - wished her well on her journey... who knows, we might meet up with her again when we go to Australia in 5 years....

*no Jamie found**