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Turns out the iPhone is almost perfect for traveling with. It has two problems: I cannot directly use it to edit my photos without using a computer as an intermediate step, and typing is so slow I haven't bothered to post much. So yeah, we are in Scotland! Some things that have been awesome:

* Diving in Belize. I must become certified. It was perfect.
* Spending a day and a half with Natalie before heading off to Scotland. She taught me an origami form from memory, did a lot of shopping math and prioritizing with her Very Own Gift Card, and gave me lots of snuggles. And grew a foot.
* Driving! Granted, starting out driving in London at rush hour after no sleep was a little thrilling, but D is an able navigator and now it's just fun.
* Place names. During our drive from London to Scotland, David read me the map, and neither of us could stop giggling. I want the handbook to British place name morphology: what's a Thorpe? A Burn? And seriously, who lets Spital-In-The-Street keep its name?
* Menhirs. I've seen a zillion standing stone sites, from the kind with underground rooms and a visitor's center to the kind that's one stone in the middle of some dude's field that you can only find if you notice the tiny handpainted sign, but apart from Stonehenge, they've all been in France. So getting to walk a mile or so to a stone circle on a hill in Duddo was really fun for me.
* Sheeps! All over! Dotting the hillsides! It turns out that the Scottish countryside looks just like a cartoon of the Scottish countryside, but real.

Okay, reaching typing annoyance. More when I return, with a photo of David eating menhirs.

This week, David and I were supposed to be on a tandem bike, cycling from London to Edinburgh and then spending a week in Scotland. The huge cloud of volcanic ash stopped us from leaving, however, so on a last minute whim we flew to Belize. I just bought bathing suits and a big floppy hat and today we are going to explore some caves. Tomorrow maybe we will take scuba lessons near the yoga retreat mzrowan recommended. I really do love traveling with no idea what I'm doing or where I will be tomorrow -- there is no pressure to do everything since doing anything at all is a triumph.