Day 10 North Of Moffat To East Loch Lomond

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(Posting two days later as have not had coverage) Long day today but mostly quite flat. Woke up to find the "quiet" spot I found in the dark was actually on an access road to a wind farm construction site. So at 7am there was a string of cars and vans being escorted from the main road to there construction site (quite a distance from me). They did not seem surprised to see me there! Unfortunately, it turned cold windy and rainy and stayed like that until I was getting closer to my destination, a small forest East of Loch Lomond. Cycling through Glasgow along the Clyde was great. The cycle routes here (route 74 today) are wonderful, almost like a cycle motorway with signs like "local traffic" and "local services," quite unlike the routes in England where you are lucky sometimes to even have a route indication at a junction. Had trouble finding a good camping spot, the forest was quite wild so there were no flat spots without undergrowth. Eventually found somewhere under a low hanging tree, glad to get into the warm and dry!

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