Posted by Adam Quinan on August 07, 2008 at 00:00:31 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Great Northern posted by Ed Kiser on August 06, 2008 at 18:51:47:
Ed wrote: "our heroes "riding off into the sunset" as a final farewell."
At the risk of being thought pedantic, the physical course from the Hebrides to Scotland would be easterly, towards the rising sun and could be seen as the young ones entering a bright future of adulthood (perhaps Winston Churchill's anticipated "broad, sunlit uplands" of the post-war period).