Myself and my friend John decided around Christmas time to plan a road trip in April which would more or less be a complete lap of Scotland.   Day 1: Meeting point - Tarbet.   I left from Dundee to meet John, who was coming from Glasgow, at the hotel in Tarbet where the tour would begin. The forecast a week earlier had been for snow showers but luckily (infact almost amazingly) it was 17 degrees and the sun was shining.     The A83 from Tarbet to Lochgilphead was a good warm up, howe