Conclusion: –
We all agreed it was a fabulous trip which we really enjoyed. The weather was particularly kind to us for even though the sky looked threatening a lot of the time, we only had a couple of showers whilst in the Highlands. I would certainly like to do it again, but next time in the Land Rover. It was great fun on the bike but from a photographic point of view it was a pain in the proverbial having to park the bike, dig the camera out and take the helmet off in order to take an image. Having said that, the scenery was so good it would probably take me three months to do the same trip by car.
Also, next time, I would do the route in an anticlockwise direction. In my opinion the scenery is better on the west coast and therefore it would appear to get more spectacular as the trip progressed. Unfortunately going clockwise we saw the best scenery first and in comparison, the east coast was a little disappointing .
The total mileage on my cumulative trip meter was 1781 miles; I’m not sure if this is correct when adding the daily mileage together and have no plans to check it out.