Creaky Traveler in the North West Highlands of Scotland: A Journey for the Mobile but Not Agile by Warren Rovetch

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On a journey of discovery, Warren and Gerda Rovetch, both "creaky" themselves, explore the hidden places of Great Britain's last wilderness, the rugged and startling coast of Scotland's North West Highlands. They bring fresh perspectives to the environmental, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of their experience as their journey moves at an easy pace from village pubs and croft houses to places of untouched natural beauty and solitude. Celtic history and tradition come alive as our hosts meander their way along. Part travelogue, part guidebook, but all charm and wit, this book transports us to another culture where we have much to learn.

While this is a book of interest to all readers, it offers something special for the Creaky Traveler who is "mobile but not agile." With over 25 trips to Europe behind them, the Rovetches have mastered essential planning and navigation skills for successful and affordable independent travel. They detail web, print, and human information sources; the "character study" method they have devised for choosing routes, stopping points, and places to stay; the art of dealing with airlines in matters ranging from age-related seating to surviving treks to and from planes; the best rental car models; and, above all, pacing that serves body and soul.

Join them as they stay in charming small guesthouses and hotels whose proprietor-chefs serve up fresh, lively dishes and equally lively dinner conversation. Participate in a three-day "ceildh (kay-lee), a celebration of traditional music, song, poetry, and dance. Take a white-knuckle ride on the "wee mad road" past Badnaban Bay and into Lochinver. Learn the practical and imaginative approaches that make Creaky Traveling a manageable, adventurous, and rewarding occupation.

Author Biography: Born in Detroit in 1926, Rovetch completed his undergraduate studies at Wayne University in Detroit and his graduate studies at Oxford (Balliol College). He has been a government economist, an industrial engineer, and a regional director for the Foreign Policy Association. The first of his many entrepreneurial enterprises was Education Research Associates, where he created a Denver center for dropouts, and directed a study of post-secondary education for the Colorado Legislature. He went on to establish Columbia River Properties and developed an environmentally based education and tour center on the Lewis and Clark Water Trail of the Lower Columbia River.

His travels began in 1946, his pre-creaky days, with a year-long adventure through six countries of war-torn Europe. In England he spent nearly six months giving current events talks for the U.S. Information Agency and lectures on American history for a British army officers training program. Over the rest of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, he and his wife of fifty years made twenty-five extended trips to Europe and effected the transition from traveler to Creaky Traveler.

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