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OTHER JOURNEYS 89journeys were. I supposeit is the common fateof explorers to feel " a sort of a tameness " if Imay quote the photographer of Bonar Bridgeon the homeward way. And when we turnedSouth upStrath Halladale and met for the firsttime the midday sun pouringfull into the frontof the caravan, we began to ask ourselves if thiswas all, if there were no other worlds to conquer.And it was then that we fell upon the happyidea of traversing every mainland county ofScotland.isImay as well say at once that we failed. Thereone county where the caravan SIEGLINDA hasnever been :us.lostand that is rather a sore point withIf the reader has ever made 99 not out, oran election by a single vote, he will be thebetter able to understand our feelings with regardto the county of Argyll, which is the blot on ourfair record, the missing scalp at our belt, the dropthat failed to fill the cup. There had been anevening on Loch Lomond when we were campedwithin two miles of Argyll, with a level roadbetween us, but then our thoughts werefull of Caithness, and the golden opportunitypassed by. But that is the only county thatremains.Our first move was to establish a Highland