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The 24-hour trip for love
1 September 2008
Long distance relationships can be hard to maintain, but one transatlantic couple is proving that they can also be extremely romantic.
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Airline captain Donna Clark from the US travels between the States and the Isle of Skye twice a month just in order to be able to meet her husband Bryan who lives there.
The pair met a year ago while she was travelling in Scotland. After climbing Ben Nevis, she had thought she would stay in Aberdeen.
But Cupid had other plans as she picked up a fellow American while hitchhiking who persuaded her to travel to Skye where her new husband works as a hostel manager, the Telegraph reports.
Donna then used to make the 4,159-mile trip regularly to visit her beau after love blossomed.
Now the pair have tied the knot and she is having to make the 24-hour trip twice a month.
She flies from Cleveland, Ohio, to Newark, New Jersey, and then gets a plane across the Atlantic to Glasgow.
But the journey does not end there as she then has to take a bus to Queen Street station and then take a five hour train trip to Mallaig, followed by a half an hour ferry to Armadale.
Mr Clark told the newspaper: "It's the most amazing compliment you could ever get. It feels like you are part of a film that is actually happening.
"At times I have to pinch myself and say 'This is real, she's actually doing this."
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