Highland Games



If you're anywhere in the San Francisco Bay area, particularly the Livermore Valley and Pleasanton today, you're not too late to take in the 141st Highland Games put on by the San Francisco Caledonian Society. These are the oldest games west of the Mississippi and one of the largest on the continent. 35 pipe bands are scheduled to attend, including 5 grade 1 bands. (FYI there are only three grade 1 bands in the United States. Two will be in Pleasanton plus three from Canada.) It will be a great day with more on tomorrow. (So what am I doing in Lakewood, the Athens of southeastern L.A. County though it be? Languishing in the heat and lamenting that the travel funds were spent elsewhere.)