The landscape of Skye, especially on the north and east coasts was fascinating. As the land slips towards the sea, it creates so many interesting shapes, just like this one…
Getting lost in the most remote parts of Scotland… Listening to lots of good music and meditating. And some new books… I have my list of recommendations btw – that makes me look a little OCD. But, in this OCD-case, it is to your benefit! 😀
Here’s one of Stu from a few weeks ago on the Isle of Skye. It looks a little like a Peak Design ad, but it’s really an ad for Stu. Well, Stu is not for sale… so that doesn’t really make sense, Trey…
Stu was awesome enough to drive me around for a few days and show me his home country. It’s quite cool (and coincidental) that Stu has worked with me for over a decade and just happens to live here in Scotland! It’s been great hanging out…
Yeah, Stu runs the fine art business, helps with all our crypto/NFT stuff, the website (including the new TreyRatcliff.com that you may enjoy – thanks Stu), renders all our Machine Elf work, plus 10 other random things from dealing with auctions at Sotheby’s to helping get stuff printed for big events with needy clients that are all over the show (like those Vanity Fair Oscars peeps who almost gave him a heart attack!) to throwing me a drone through an open train door for 10 seconds while passing through a train station near his home, which I think is from Episode 2 of the new season of Black Mirror.
Anyway, Thanks Stu – You’re AWESOME!
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On this particular day on Skye, Stu and I probably hiked for 3-4 hours… and then an extra 1.5 hours because of a… errrr… let’s say an “unplanned landing” of the drone.
I was flying around, and I didn’t realize how windy it was. Nor was I wind-aware enough to realize the return home was 180 degrees EXACTLY into that stiff wind. So, when the battery warning came, I told it to return home… started to relax… and I was looking at the screen thinking… hrmmm… that scene is not changing much. And then I noticed it was getting 1 meter closer every 10 seconds and I still had a significant way to go. This wasn’t good. So, jammed it into sport mode to try to fight the wind harder, but, to no avail… it declared an emergency landing in a rather treacherous area, but Stu and I went on a cross-country (mosty uphill) adventure to find and recover it… We found it, and all was right in the world again… then once again we got back after midnight.
Here’s a little detail shot I grabbed when at the Fairy Pools on Skye. A lovely hike, even on a moody weather day!
