How Many Remote/Lone Kilters Out There

[JamesA]

That pretty much describes me. I seem to be the only one to wear a kilt on a regular basis. Although, people around my little town are getting used to it and even asking after it if they haven't seen it in a while.

JamesA

[Tommie]

Are you kidding me? Another kiltie in this town!
I live in hickville bubba country called Beaver Dam,Kentucky.
Now how you find that is you go south from the ohio river about twenty miles until you come to a very wooded area,then you proceed about another five an you come into a little town called Fort Hartford-Don't stop there what ever you do-then about a half mile further puts you smack in the middle of Beaver Dam.
I live about four miles east of that about as deep into the woods as you can go.
If I ran into another kiltie I would faint dead away.
Have thought about kilting up a couple of Racoons just to break up feeling alone.

Seriously,we do get into a larger city not far from here several times a week,but I have never ran into anyone else kilted.
Have had a lot of people come up to me curious about my kilts,and comment about never actually seeing anyone wearing one other than pictures or tele.

I know there are many others from my state and surely we will run into each other sooner or later.
Meanwhile,i'll just keep on spreading the word (Pants are out guys)

[way2fractious]

Are you kidding me? Another kiltie in this town!
I live in hickville bubba country called Beaver Dam,Kentucky.

Well... uh... I did pass through your town - very briefly - last September on my way from Morton's Gap to Leitchfield, following US 62 (not the parkways, they frown on cyclists using the motorways.) I recall that stretch from McHenry to Beaver Dam and out through Rosine, Horse Branch, and Caneyville as a wonderful area of Kentucky.

However, I rarely donned my kilt during the day, usually only at the end of the day's ride... so that's probably why you missed seeing me. Of course, I didn't see you in your kilt, either. Maybe next time...

w2f (on a once-in-a-lifetime trip)

[Tommie]

Well... uh... I did pass through your town - very briefly - last September on my way from Morton's Gap to Leitchfield, following US 62 (not the parkways, they frown on cyclists using the motorways.) I recall that stretch from McHenry to Beaver Dam and out through Rosine, Horse Branch, and Caneyville as a wonderful area of Kentucky.

However, I rarely donned my kilt during the day, usually only at the end of the day's ride... so that's probably why you missed seeing me. Of course, I didn't see you in your kilt, either. Maybe next time...

w2f (on a once-in-a-lifetime trip)

That is so way kewl.A lot of history in all those small towns.
We take US 62 to visit my wifes brother in Litchfield.
Like the back way better than the WK parkway.Lot more scenic.
I have allways dreamed of taking the old route 66 to California if its still there.
Maybe some day.

[Jimmy]

Sometimes I envy a great number of x-markers when they organise their kilt nights in famous USA and Canadian towns and cities but coming from Scotland and living in Scotland, it is obviously very common to see a multitide of kilties throughout the year especially during the better months when the wedding season is in vogue. Every weekend throughout the year in Glasgow and Edinburgh and other places, kilts are popular, not just at national football matches.
Any time I wear my kilt there are always other kilt-wearers present, certainly when I wear the kilt it is at social events which are quite frequent. I am not an every day kilt wearer but I do like to wear it at every opportunity.
Possibly I would like to wear it as much as Arlen but sometimes it is just not possible

[Standard]

There is another guy here in our town of about 20,000 who has a kilt that I know of, but I can't remember seeing him in it outside of Burns night. Up until this last year when I got my first kilt he was the only one I had ever seen in our town with a kilt on.

Definately no kilt nights here, unless you count when my wife and I go out for a nice meal and I wear mine.

[Scotty-x]

In the suburbs of chicago...aurora,naperville I dont see anyone either. I sure would like more to wear kilts around here. It would convice my wife that it is OK to wear them.

[acstoon]

I live in a town of about 4000... mostly Germanic descent (lot of Amish & Mennonite). I've yet to see another kiltie here.
Nearest Irish pub is 30 minutes away. Which is frustrating, since this area was originally settled by Celtic peoples... Towns within 30 minutes with names like: Welsh Run, Caledonia, Greencastle, Scotland, McConnellsburg, etc... Go figure.
Kilt night? None yet, although I know of a couple roughly an hour away.

[McNulty]

Hey Ron, et al
There are three of us kilties out here on the Western Slope: Me, myself and I.( did you see that coming?). There are more resident sheep and beef cattle out here than people. This area is rural, ranching, and not very populated( unless you count the natural gas /oil field workers). I live in an extended community of about 2,500 spread out over 25-30 miles of I-70.

While hiking some of the trails and backcountry areas I run into Touristas ( affectionate name for folks from not around here who stop in and increase our retail tax base by buying all manner of hiking stuff) and they usually have good things to say about my kilts. Some say that they have kilt(s) at home and I encourage them to bring them along next time out this way.

The area is not devoid of "big city culture" and there are great concerts and community theater is really pretty good. I was at a play several weeks ago, and for some reason not in a good mood and was kilted. I guy came up to me during intermission and said, "So, is there a large Scottish community here in Glenwood?" to which I replied(remember that I was in a sorta bad mood) "I don't know....I'm Irish!" and started to turn away. He had such a crushed look on his face that I relented and talked to him both during the intermission and after the play for about an hour. He was visiting from Florida, has several kilts at home and said that he would bring his kilts with him next year as he was planning to return for skiing up at Aspen(Aspen is only 45 mins away from Glenwood Springs).

So, there aren't tooo many kilties out here, and the ranchers do not try to rope, and throw, and brand me because of the kilt. My summer flyfishing clients think that it is kinda "neat" to have a kilted guide. So even though we are about 3.5-4 hours west of Denver we don't miss the pollution/traffic/lack of kilties at all.
Nulty

[Hamish]

Ron, even I am pretty much 'out in the sticks' in spite of southern England being pretty much over-populated! The nearest kiltie to me, as far as I know, lives just over an hour's drive from here - and we meet up regularly at my home anyway without traipsing off to find a friendly pub! We go to one, where we are known for our kilts, in the next village to eat, but not just to drink since we prefer to do that at home.

A year or two back, I suggested to the Landlady (owner) of The Frankland Arms, where we eat, that she should try a regular Tartan theme night as a promotional gimmick - I thought it might also bring some 'closet' kilties out of their hideaways - but, she declined saying, "We do not hold themed events. We're not that sort of pub!". She is right - it's not - but I thought it worth a try!

In the days of "Tom's Café", three of us did manage to meet up at a pub some distance from here, but neither of the others was a 'local' and, in fact I had to put one of them up overnight as he had several hours drive to get home afterwards. We never tried that one again!

No, I'm afraid some of us were born to miss out on pub Kilts Nights - unless we are lucky enough to stay at The Ferintosh up there in Scotland!

Take care,
Ham.