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CHAPTER VIIITO JOHN:o' GROAT'SiWE did not set out for John o' Groat's with thesingle aim of reaching our goal by the easiestroute. We travelled, as will be seen by the map,in a series of great zigzags up the heart of Scotland,exploring the country far and wide as wewent. For we had gaily concluded, when firstthe project was discussed, that we would go upby the West and come back by the East : andour erratic course was due to our determined andpathetic endeavours to reach the West Coast.This West Coast, North of Glasgow, provedfor us. Ialtogether too tough a problem hope itmay be possible to do it some day with a ponycartand a tent, but it is almost beyond the scopeof a caravan. At every point as we approacheditdangers and difficulties increased about us.Not only are the roads generally bad, with manybarbarous gradients, but the whole of that side ofScotland is so torn into rags and tatters by armsof the sea that the traveller is often confronted57