Motorcycle Road Trips - Scottish Islands - Part Seven 

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Note to all Americans: There is an historical reason for driving on the left; it’s all to do with keeping your sword hand free! In the Middle Ages you never knew who you were going to meet when travelling on horseback. Most people are right-handed, so if a stranger passed by on the right of you, your right hand would be free to use your sword if required.

Can’t believe all the great weather with beautiful blue skies you have had on this wonderful trip you are doing! It’s great!

Fantastic ride with a great host and commentator who videos and edits superbly as well. The scenery and the weather have been treating all of us right since you started on your journey! Thanks, thanks a lot, from over here in Portland, Oregon.

We love finding out the next place to moor your fishing boat. Just like a kid in a candy store, making up their mind one to the next.😁 Lovely scenery.

Enjoying this series very much. I've been following along your route on Google Earth which adds a lot to the experience if you can't be there in person. As for the FerryMan, well "public servant" almost always means "public master". Cheers.

I love seeing Scotland with you. I may never make it there but after each video I feel like I have experienced it. Thanks so much

dbeautiful country. I am like you; once on the Alcan Highway, you turn a corner and think, this is where my cabin in the woods will be, then 2 miles down the road. No this is where my cabin will be.. 😂

Amazing, I love these videos. Keep them coming 🎉🎉❤

Greatly enjoy living vicariously through your videos.

Hi Kevin. Another excellent Vlog. Thank you so much 💓. I just cannot understand how some viewers see you riding on the wrong side of the road. No Way. Keep on delivering my friend 😊

Every time I watch your trips I wonder to myself how much money do I need coming in and in the bank to be able to retire and do the things you do ! Your a very lucky man Kevin ,I'm slightly envious and can't wait to retire and be able to do these trips.

Evening Kevin. WOW!!!! Can't believe the scenery, absolutely stunning. The ferry journey looked so relaxing with those cotton wool clouds hovering in the distance. Thanks Kevin, we look forward to the next installment. All the best for a great weekend, Floss & Jan.

Lovely magical opening scene Kevin & it should be illegal to have so much fun and freedom! Good for you! Very nice ferry system in Scotland and reasonably priced! In Washington state our ferry system is not this nice and modern.

Nice

Thistle do Nicely!

This is my favorite so far!!! Oh how beautiful! We can always hope that Nanny takes a hike from the state! I pray that they do not ruin the beautiful landscape with factories and condominiums!!! It would be so very sad!

You are right, Kevin…every twist & turn of the road reveals a new breathtaking vista, all bathed in the glow of the glorious sunshine. The sky, the wind, the road, & the natural world all around…yep pretty Zen-like☯…good for the soul. Thanks once again & I hope you are well. All the best…cheers.😊

Must be FRIDAY!! Enjoyed the the trip with my morning coffee. -Cheers from Seattle! ☺

great content! both the edit and the voice-over are fantastic. thanks As much as I miss Aslan this is most enjoyable.

Good video travels on the channel keep up the good video thanks lee

Hard hat = fashion statement indicating job importance or increased risk of sea gull thwacking during breeding season.

First went on that road in 1960s with my parents with their Vauxhall Velox and caravan, when single track was a real track! You can still see remains of that ‘road’ on parts of the valley. Magical place. Great video, Kevin😊

Hi Kevin! At the beginning of this series, you mentioned that you would surely run out of words to describe the splendor of this lovely place. How right you were! I should also add that you've done a magnificent job of presenting it.

I am right in the middle of watching yet another wonderful video, I wanted to comment about health and safety killing the joy, they definitely come through the video that it is a stark difference from 95% of what you seem to be experiencing there which is quietness, friendly people and beauty. Here in the United States I cannot imagine how we would react to such foolishness, I live in a state where it is legal to carry concealed firearms without a permit and it is one of the safest states to live in, I don’t have a working lock on the door of my house And although I don’t personally carry a firearm I feel it’s nice to know that because you assume everybody else could have won that it’s rare anything bad happens here, that type of health and safety here would be like a kindergarten class being led around the village with everyone holding onto a rope I am 56 as well and have survived without anyone holding my hand either, I love your common sense Kevin, I love your videos and your attitude is one that brings joy to people and thank you for that

They are all Bond fans....'Will the Skyfall?' All the best, Neil and Mrs. Neil.

Thank you, Kevin. Absolutely beautiful, and your commentary is spot on. Cheers from Buckley, WA USA!

There is a documentary series about CalMac on one of the UK TV channels and I enjoyed it very much. This episode reminds me of that, plus my holiday on Mull a few years back. I even took the ferry to Iona. Thanks Kevin for making this video.

Beautiful journey. You are so handsome - but I'm US bound, 78 years young & happily married for 53 years. Still . . .

Love the shop name (8:15) "Thistle Do Nicely"! What did they sell? Crafts I bet, local woolens and such?

I was looking forward to this instalment - the first time I have "been" on the ferry - if only virtually - from Oban to Craignure since a family holiday in 1972, when my father had the strange idea of leaving the car in Oban, and going for a cruise to Mull and back. We wandered vaguely around Craignure (the weather was fine, as here) and took the next ferry back. Islay is pronounced "eye-lah" BTW. You have to know that when amongst whisky-quaffing folk or you get laughed at.

Brilliant travelogue. Thank you greatly for all of your effort producing this for us!

Awesome scenery thank you

Totally agree with you about the nanny state and health and safety. Too much intervention in peoples lives esp in UK. Appalling. Killjoys indeed.

Loved the trip... traveling is work!! .. fun work ... loved the blue skies, solid earth, and escape into the cool air and real clouds.

Kevin, thank you SO much for sharing your adventures with us. I'll never have the chance to see that beautiful country. I really appreciate all you do for us. ❤❤❤

Did you make a special pledge with the big man above to get this grand weather for your trip ??? If so he has kept his side Thanks again for sharing tc now the oldies 👍👍🤗

What an exquisite palette of colors on today's journey! Aaaaaaahhhh! Simply brilliant, Kevin. Many thanks!❤

Hi Kevin. Great views. I’ve visited both Oban and Mull but never went South just as far as Tobermory and across to Islay. Can’t wait to see what you make of the rest of Mull. Take care. Nick

Great to see another motor home as big as mine, if they can do it I can do it! Thank you for a fun trip, grief you were lucky with the weather. PS worked out my mileage per liter, finally, 13.97 liter per kilometer.

Love the tour de Scotland via motorbike. When I visited the Britian and Ireland some years back, as a lefty, I found it much easier to drive on the left. Only mistake I had was looking right for oncoming traffic when making a left. Thanks for the GREAT series of videos.

I had to laugh about which side of the road you drive on. I live in Mississippi and know that 🤣. But what I’ve been wanting to say is, I love your intro music. I’m so accustomed to you playing your own music which I like very much, but I’m always surprised with your new music format. Keep doing your own thing! That’s what life is all about!!! Thank you for sharing your journey!!!!

Thanks, Kevin, for another nice ride with beautiful scenery and weather!

Very scenic and sunny ferry ride 😊

Enjoyed riding along for another one Kevin. What beautiful views! Take care.

Hi Kevin thanks for the video. Wow the colour of the sea is amazing. Take care X X X ❤

LOVE every moment. Always end too soon for me.

I'm very glad to see you driving on the correct side of the road as always 👍

I was totally convinced that I would not want to continue watching the motorcycle trips. Wow was I wrong.

Thoroughly enjoyed your Scotland adventure videos. I appreciate your hard work making this wonderful series. I can see you put a lot of thought to it.

Loving this series Kevin. I'm not a motorcyclist but would love to follow your route in my campervan sometime. I go to Scotland regularly in my Lorry, but rarely see more than industrial estates apart from the odd occasion I get the Borders coastal run. It would be great to see more of the country and your trip is giving me lots of inspiration :)

I have ten minutes or so left to watch, but I'm saving that for this evening. Quite enjoyable video, as always!

I find it a bit funny (& I do not mean to be disrespectful of anyone) that an American who watches a RU-vid channel originating in England would be unaware of "side of the road" differences country by country. P.S. When we were visiting family & friends in Ireland, we'd be orally reminding ourselves every morning as we walked to the car... "Left side, left side". It became a daily giggle. Again, it is lovely to see this beautiful country!

Very enjoyable and well ridden on the correct side of the road! 👀👍

Lovely ride, 😊 parts remind me of home here in Idaho with the Birch ,Pines and did i see Larch? My favorite tree...Truely enjoyable! As always!!! Thanks Kevin!..😊 All the best!..🙏😊

I love Mull, caught my 1st wild brown trout there, your weather good again. Good video.

I'm absolutely loving this season! What is the beautiful flowering yellow shrubbery? Thanks for this great content!

A lovely peaceful drive on Mull. I think that this is the best scenery so far. I wonder how much is natural, it being on a windswept? island, as opposed to the unnatural clear vistas on the mainland, the result of felling and intensive grazing. "they recognise there's a man of sophistication, oh! there's a Spar shop!" 👌🥂🎖

Haven’t watched this yet Kevin! Friday nights viewing is changed to Saturday this week! Roll on tomorrow night❤

Thankyou again enjoyed it. Take care.. look forward to next one.

Awesome views and Blue skies. That Water port in Oban was spectacular... Enjoy , the bike sounds like its runnin Tops🏁🏁👍👍Proper Adventure...🙏🙏Be blessed

Wow! Kevin that place looks like Colorado. I loved every minute of it. Thanks for sharing and cheers 🍻

Simply awesome!

What beautiful weather and scenery. Touring on a motorbike really is the way to go. You’re so much more aware and connected to your surroundings. I’ll never make it to Scotland in my lifetime, thank you for taking us along. Cheers from Florida. 🌴🌴🌴👍

Lovely to see the Isle of Mull again. Perfect, thank you, really enjoying your vlogs.

Islay would have been a great trip. Famous distilleries ....nice areas.

Really enjoying this series. Beautiful country and fortunate weather. Would love to visit Scotland one day

What a lovely picturesque ride. Great video as always Kevin.

Think we passed you in the car at bridge 64 today? Bet you where off for a visit to Hamlets for a famous sausage roll😂

Mull is my favourite place in the world - especially Calgary Bay

The palm trees are from New Zealand, Cordyline australis, and are called Cabbage Trees. Very similar environments, NZ and Scotland, and Scottish gorse grows extremely well here too!

If it wasn't the Colosseum then what was that building

So beautiful there Kev. I was sitting on the loo at North Ledaig Caravan park, just past Oban Airport, (Connel Airfield at the time,) when the relative silence was rent asunder by the almighty roar of a supercharged, 37lt V12 Rolls Royce Griffon engine, as it made a full throttle low pass over the airfield and caravan park. I nipped it short (wiped) and ran out with my shorts still on the way up to see a Spitfire pulling up into a vertical climb at the far end of the field. It came to land so I went over for a closer look. Turned out to be a Navy spec mk lV. on its way to an airshow somewhere in Europe. Ill never forget that. A rare treat indeed!

Absolutely brilliant no more to be said Kevin but thanks

I stayed in a cottage a couple of miles short of Fionnphort on the road you're travelling in this video a little while before Lockdown. (Just looked it up, Easter week 2018, It's pronounced Finnifort btw). We went to Iona and Staffa during the week. A magical holiday. Great to relive it through your video. I remember buying coffee and sandwiches at the shop at Craignure while we waited for the ferry back to Oban. We bought a couple of bottles of Tobermory 10yr old on a day trip to the distillery(welll the town really) to bring home, but they didn't make it out of the cottage!

another terrific voyage abord the CHG craft! what an awesome tour you are having! thanks, Kevin for taking me along for the ride - and keep to the right (left) side of the road 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kevin, my goodness the countryside is gorgeous, love the roads you have chosen for your journey, please stay safe and keep us updated. Charlie from Pennsylvania 😊

They have to wear hard hats in case some wandering motorcyclist who strays away from his bike bumps into them!! 😁

Thoroughly enjoying these videos. Thanks for taking me along to places I’ll probably never visit! Lovely country, Scotland. Greetings from USA Maine.

Always fun to watch you ride😎

What a beautiful country !! Youve had such gorgeous weather!! I’ve loved every minute of your tour 😊

Another great video. Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

Hello Kevin, if I could I believe I would spend time at each location. Such a beautiful place. The water is such a lovely shade of blue. Each time you come upon a puddle I can't help but wonder what type of fish it may have. I can't wait to see what adventures you bring us along next week. Thank you Kevin such a lovely place Scotland.

Lovely scenery! Keep those corporate giants going Kevin!! 💪

Headed to Scotland next year on Holiday, thank you for teaching a Yank how to drive on the left side and getting used to your traffic norms. Great video as always!

'There is also a campsite here, I never realised that!' Ha! It's Gallanach, the same campsite you stayed in last night lol Bill

Spent many a night at that camp site, always loved Oban.

I don’t know traffic seams brutal over there. Enjoy my friend!

Thanks Kevin 😊

Thanks Kevin, it gets more beautiful and with great weather that we've not had down here in England yet, lol. The Ferry bods probably have 'cricket boxes' on also, don't expect the "Shermans" to know what they are either. Have a great weekend. Take care and all the best. Stevie

👁La is the pronunciation ;). I’m really enjoying this series Kevin the islands are amazing.

Keep your head above the water Kevin, you don't want to be going splashing about in those big puddles. 🖖👍 Not unless you are thinking of going scuba diving... 🤿

I've travelled on Calmac for the past 40 years and recently noticed the increasing self importance of their deck staff. For a company presently in disarray it doesn't bode well. I feel sorry for the islanders who depend on its "services".

Great vlog 👍

I'm amazed not many trees. I understand you're driving on the left and you're steering wheels are on the right

Kevin, we are ex Brit’s living in BC Canada, we are so enjoying this tour in Scotland on your bike. We have watched all your videos vlogs and love watching them they are enjoyable, interesting and fun, loved and tried the recipes and put them in our box. Thank you, if you visit Canada send us a message and will put you up.

Thanks for the wonderful video Kevin, because of you I now want a narrow boat and a motorcycle, and duel citizenship, lol. Looks like this Okie from Muskogee, is gonna have to win the lottery!

Hi Kevin, The countryside looked very dry. Looks like some of that rain you mentioned was badly needed. I have to agree with you - Health & Safety is a killjoy. When living in Brisbane back in the 1990s, several very popular small festivals were killed off because of H & S and the required insurances, much to the detriment of the cultural life of the city. Had to laugh at your ‘puddles’! Looking forward to seeing the next episode. Cheers.

Ok. After being a motorcycle rider for over 50 years. And visited Scotland on numerous occasions. How the hell for this length of time get PERFECT biking weather. Are you really in Spain It’s crazy. I really would like the dates you ride so I can come up and take up this Perfect riding weather.

You make me want to go out and learn how to ride a bike which I’ve never had the urge to do 😁