Voyage around Scotland means sailing through history

By Ken McGoogan Special to the Globe and Mail So this was Calum Mor’s House, the oldest dwelling on the Scottish island of Hirta. According to legend, young Calum had built it in a single day to prove his worth: He had been passed over for the annual fowling expedition to Borera, a smaller island…

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Expedition to Mount McGoogan

A couple of years back, Our Hero led a two-person expedition in an attempt to  climb Mount McGoogan (Cruach Mhic Gougain) in Kintyre, Scotland. On that occasion, he failed — a story he tells in the epilogue to How the Scots Invented Canada. Late next month, after voyaging around Scotland with Adventure Canada, Ken will…

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Slouching towards a cyber-presence. . .

I have been remiss. I have neglected to post links. And links, I am told, are the very stuff of a cyber-presence. So here’s me at a Polar Bear Swim. . . Here’s me rambling around Scotland. . . which adventure contributed to a book (How the Scots Invented Canada). And here’s me SIMULTANEOUSLY in…

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