title: The Wee Mad Road: A Midlife Escape to the Scottish Highlands
author:  Jack Maloney 
description: <i>The Wee Mad Road</i> is a funny, touching, insightful look at the ebb and flow of an isolated Highland fishing and crofting community, a place molded by forces of nature and tempered by its people. It is a road well worth traveling, if only from the comfort of your favorite armchair. --Neill Kennedy Ray, <i>Scottish Life</i> magazine, Summer 2008<br /><br />If you're looking for a respite from politics and war, you can lose yourself in <i>The Wee Mad Road</i>...so idyllic it'll make you Highland green with envy. --Mary Ann Grossman, Saint Paul Sunday <i>Pioneer Press</i>, May 4, 2008<br /><br /><i>''The Wee Mad Road</i> is kind of like Peter Mayle's <i>A Year in Provence</i>, with rotten weather and lots of whisky.'' - Bob Gilbert, <i>Villager</i>, May 7, 2008
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  Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
  
  
  [INCH
  KEITH](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos5505)
  
  [ST.
  ANDREWS](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos9416)
  
  [ABERBROTHICK](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos18431)
  
  [MONTROSE](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos23599)
  
  [ABERDEEN](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos26582)
  
  [SLANES CASTLE, THE BULLER OF
  BUCHAN](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos37407)
  
  [BAMFF](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos42752)
  
  [ELGIN](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos46395)
  
  [FORES. CALDER. FORT
  GEORGE.](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos50428)
  
  [INVERNESS](Journey%20to%20the%20Western%20Isles%20of_split_001.html#filepos53820)
  
  [LOUGH
  NESS](Journey%20