Updated plan ...
I tried to book a ScotRail trip from Pitlochry to Sterling, but learned that there are only 2 or 3 berths for bicycles on each train, and no more bicycle reservations are available on any train on the day I planned to travel. So, I will ride back from Pitlochry to Sterling in one day, and then on to Glasgow the next.
Overnight in Sterling at the Scottish Youth Hostel (for which being young is not a requirement). Last time I stayed in a youth hostel while biking was on my 1979 cross country (USA) tour.
I thought taking the train would be as easy as this:
or this
Here's the updated itinerary as of June 16, 2026:
| Trip Day | Activity | Biking Miles |
| 0 | Fly from BOS to GLA BA238 7:25am | 0 |
| 1 | Bike to Callander from GearBikes Rental in Glasgow.
Hotel in Callander | 38 |
| 2 | Loop - Callander to Loch Katrine. Hotel in Callander | 48 |
| 3 | Bike from Callander to Killin. Hotel in Killin. | 25 |
| 4 | Bike from Killin to Aberfeldy. Hotel in Aberfeldy | 25 |
| 5 | Bike from Aberfeldy to Pitlochry. Hotel in Pitlochry | 16 |
| 6 | Loop - Loch Tummel Circuit & River Garry to Blaire Castle, Hotel in Pitlochry | 45 |
| 7 | Loop - Whitefield Castle. Hotel in Pitlochry | 33 |
| 8 | Cycle to Stirling.
Stay at the Sterling Youth Hostel. | 62 |
| 9 | Cycle to Glasgow via Tak-Ma-Doon Rd and the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life.
Stay at hotel in Glasgow | 40 |
| 10 | Day in Glascow (wee short ride?)
Fly GLA to Boston 7:45pm BA1491 | 30 |
| 11 | Arrive Boston 12:35 pm, cycle home from Logan
(leave 3 Speed Phillips bicycle at Terminal A at Logan).
Enter Gloucester during the last day of
St Peter's Fiesta | 40 |
| Total Miles | 402 |
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