"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond." (Harmonica by Paul.)

A beautiful Scottish melody. The low road was often the road the commoners were forced to take, it being more often unkempt and a harder road than the "high road" reserved for nobles. Loch Lomond is over by Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire. I lived in Scotland in the highlands beside Loch Ness, one of the other incredibly deep Scottish lakes, in a croft near Dochgarroch at Blackfold.

The visual in this clip is the second in my so-far three studies of the White Pass in Alaska. The "Mid Section of the White Pass out of Skagway" which is the road side of the White Pass, the other side being the side the miners used to take back in the days of the 1898 gold rush, shortly thereafter to become the right-of-way of the White Pass and Yukon Rail Road.

The White Pass was considered the easier of the two routes into the waterways in Canada that led to the gold fields of Dawson. But the more difficult "Chilkoot Trail" was mostly used because Skagway at the head of the White Pass was lawless, since it was had in dispute as to it's sovereignty; if of the United States or of Canada. Until that was resolved, no country could establish law enforcement agencies in the disputed city.

The last of the wild west towns, I called it "Murder City". Of course, it's nothing like that now. The law agencies in the modern Skagway are quite adept and the town is relatively peaceful, despite the obstreperous plastic (pseudo) hippies that inhabit it during the summer months, often sleeping rough beside the mountain trails to the East with the black bears and their laptops,coming into town daily, getting drunk and trying to impress each other with their cheesy elitist snobbery.

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[dadadude76]

Without wonder, where would we be? Thank-you.

[psychospeakempire]

breathtaking.

5 *****

Paul