RogueRunners '23 - Day 8

 Heading South

We packed up & set off from the Ord Arms Hotel, I was having trouble with the cameras & ended up at the back - even more so when I got caught at the first lights & then went straight on at the Tore roundabout - it was only Richard following me & saying "you turned off the roundabout too soon" that gave me any clue where I was.

So Richard & I were playing catch up from the off. But catch up we did - at the A9 which was closed after a fatal accident, which unfortunately goes to show that the rigidly enforced speed limits are maybe not the answer.

NOT the A9

So we turned round to get us away from the queue & asked the SatNavs to avoid the A9, which to be fair they did - by taking a tiny tiny road across a moor for 10 miles. It was all going quite well until eight cars going one way, met four going the other in the one place where there were no passing places for a mile in each direction.

Having sorted that out & got back to a road with a white line in the middle, things improved & after quite a while we successfully negotiated the "Bridge of Doom" going south & celebrated with cake & coffee at the Bothy at Braemar. Richard & Robert arrived late after changing a wheel on Richard's car after the tyre got shredded.

Then Roger & Steve headed off for Steve's house on the west coast, Robert & Richard abandoned the route to find a Quick Fit & have the tyre replaced, leaving Linda Graham & myself on the route. A little while later Graham had SatNav issues & headed for the hotel direct, leaving two of us to tackle some pretty good roads & the Edinburgh rush hour. But we made it to the hotel in time for a freshen up before supper & a well earned sleep.