We spent one full day taking the 7:45 ferry (read waking up at 5:00 am to pack and leaving for the ferry by 6:30 am) driving from the Orkneys to St. Andrews. I took a ton of pictures because (a) it was sunny and that’s rare in Scotland and (b) my iPhone tags the location on a map so I can go back and see our route. The route from Wick to Inverness was pretty standard (literally it was just a line of the ferry traffic following one another for 120 miles).
However, when we got to Inverness we decided we didn’t want to take the standard route because it followed the same route we had taken on the train (up through Pitlochry). So, instead we decided we wanted to go through the Cairngorms National Park and see Balmoral Castle. That was and adventure. They seemed to make no attempts to make the road level. Rather, it just followed every little hill, so it was like riding a roller coaster!
I also thought I’d include a collection of some of my favorite road signs.
David and Heidi’s Travels 