2018 TGO Challenge Day 0

TGO Challenge Day 0

Getting to the Challenge
Wednesday, May 9th - Thursday, May 10th

***If you don't know what the Great Outdoors Challenge (TGO or TGOC from here on) is all about, check out this link.***

For the Challenge this year I would be joined by Leslie, who had to withdraw on day 4 of the challenge last year due to some knee issues, and Kenny and Ava, who I hiked a good portion of my 2016 crossing with.

Leslie and I flew out of Palm Beach International Airport at 2:30pm on May 9th, and had a brief stop over in Philadelphia where we had just enough time to get a genuine Philly Cheesesteak.

Philly Cheesesteak and beer in Philadelphia

From Philly it was a 6 hour and 30 minute flight to Glasgow.  The flight was pretty uneventful, I even managed a couple hours of sleep.  We arrived at 7am (2am Eastern Standard Time) so we lost almost our entire night of sleep. 

At the Glasgow Airport with our resupply packages

We took a bus into the city center and did our town chores (buying fuel and mailing resupply packages) before catching our train to Inverness.  3 hours later we arrived in Inverness.  We checked into our hotel, napped a bit and walked around town while waiting for Kenny and Ava to arrive at 9pm. 

Some pictures from our walk around Inverness (click on any picture to get a larger view):

This is what I imagine every Scotsman looks like

First drinks!

Once Ava and Kenny arrived we had a brief meeting in the restaurant next to the hotel and then went to bed as we were all exhausted and had to catch an 8:55 train to get to our starting point, Strathcarron.