On To Scotland

After the castle, we drove a few miles out of Carlisle to a lay by we had identified as a possible night halt--and found ourselves just outside Gretna, Scotland. The next day, we drove on toward Glasgow, with two unsuccessful detours, one the World Heritage Site at New Lanark, the other a wall of neolithic inscriptions near Kilmarnock. We could find no adequate parking at New Lanark and so took a few pix and drove on. I found quite a few cliffs and walls on the River Ayr, right where the GPS said, but no cup nor ring marks. We drove on again. The third strike was called in Glasgow, but I'll cover that in the next post.

A few scenes from the early 19th century mill town/social
experiment of New Lanark

The brain-child of industrialist/socialist Robert Owen
(also of New Harmony, Indiana, fame)

You can check Owen and New Lanark out at the website:
http://www.newlanark.org/index2.shtml; tell them they need
to provide a coach park with parking for RVs

The only plausible wall I found for the neolithic inscriptions
was this; no cups, no rings, but signs of later habitation...

But I did have a nice hike along the River Ayr; even picked a
few wild raspberries