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[Catdad]

Welcome from Chandler! I work in Scottsdale so who knows, maybe some day we'll cross paths.

[Dr Mac]

from Bryan/College Station!

[Mikilt]

From Chicago, Welcome to XMarkstheScot

[Gryphon noir]

Welcome from Cedar Cottage neighbourhood in Vancouver BC Canada.

[grizzbass]

welcome from a mackenzie in SoCal. Geneology can be fun. We originally came from Lintrathen, angus scotland.

[Kiltman]

Welcome from Eastern Washington State.

[CSCunningham]

from Connecticut

[Mike_Oettle]

Hi, AzRobert, and welcome to X Marks from the bottom end of Africa.
Regards,
Mike

[athensohkiltguy]

Hello from the hill country of Appalachian Ohio! I'm a very new member, from Athens. (Don't worry if you've never heard of it, you wouldn't find it unless you had a really good reason for coming here; it's not a primary destination of anybody except folks who attend or work at Ohio University.)

I related to the "jonesing" definition on this site, desperately eager for my first, new kilt from Scotweb to get here this next week. Call me anal, or obsessed, or both; I've been spending a few months studying up on the history of men's clothing and Scottish clothing traditions especially, and checked out lots of kilt sites to find one I could afford as my first kilt and be happy with. I suppose I'm a traditionalist in some sense...I wanted my first kilt to be custom-made from Scotland. But I've already identified my next one, and I haven't even had the chance to know for sure I'm going to love my FIRST one. Something tells me, though, that I will. Everybody I've told seems mostly to be almost as wildly excited about me getting and wearing the kilt as I am, which is cool. (I checked with my university boss about wearing it at work, and he wrote back saying that he belonged to Clan Campbell and had his grandfather's kilt, then emailed later asking if we should set up a departmental "kilt day" each week; I almost fell off my chair.)

Anyhow, really excited to get my kilt and other stuff on and start wearing it pretty regularly to work and around town. I'm a biologist, so love to be in the woods, and enjoy camping, fishing and hiking. Enjoy making international foods, especially have fun with making European hearth breads, homemade jellies and jams and such (which explains why I gotta exercise regularly too ). Also love to travel (even managed to get up to Scotland for a couple of days years ago with my partner, in search of his ancestral Stuart homeland in Nethybridge area), love languages and cultures, WAY TOO intrigued with Scottish everything [I'd even try haggis if ya begged me to]. At this point I'm not much more than a hillbilly mongrel, and proud of it, but have traced my great-great-grandfather's roots to Virginia and the Carolinas; trying to break past that tough territory. It's most likely that my heritage is in England or maybe Ireland and not (as cool as) Scotland; but as long as y'all don't make me turn in my kilt, and let me honor your birthrights and do the best with the possible few drops of Scottish blood I might have in me, I'll be grateful.

This is a cool site, and I hope I'll feel like I belong in a bit. Happy to make friends from around the world, and I'd be eager to meet other Scots and kilt-loving folk in Ohio.

Best,
Harvey

[BoldHighlander]

...from the far nw corner of Washington state!