Friday 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Library 1533
Terry
Moss, Bob Seyfried, Tom Dole, Jennifer Kerr
The sharing of travel experiences serves as an excellent
aid in both the planning and execution of travel plans. Others' experiences,
both good and bad, can help take much of the mystery and hassle out of our own
travel adventures. In this seminar, members can meet informally to share such
experiences, listen to speakers on travel subjects of interest, and perhaps find
companions willing to team up on particular tours. This is an open seminar
limited in attendees to the number of chairs available as determined by Fire
Department regulations.
PLEASE
NOTE: No
food or drink (except bottled water) is allowed in the library.
The Travel & Adventure Trek to Bidwell Park in Chico on
April 3. more photos
Sept.
11: WELCOME AND
GREECE
Welcome to yet another
T&A semester! After introductions and discussions (and the usual $2
collection), we will hear a presentation on Greece by John Robertson, whose
tour occurred two years ago, just after the summer fires. After visiting Athens, he and his wife and the group of approximately
20 veterinarians and families traveled in two buses to the
Peloponnese
across the Corinth
Canal
and visited the Mycenaean
Palace
of Atreus, and Epidarus. A
Greek island cruise followed that stopped in
Kusadasi, Turkey, to visit Ephesus, then went to
Patmos,
Rhodes, Crete
and Santorini.
Sept.
18: A TRIP BACK IN TIME
Bobby
Boozer describes the trials and problems of going on a dental mission to
Chichicastenango,
Guatemala, in 1962. He was the first dentist to visit
this area and things were very different then, i.e., vaccinations, passports,
airplanes, customs and safety. He will share some unusual photos and mementos
that are unobtainable today.
Sept.
25:
NEW
ZEALAND BY
MOTORHOME
Lynn
Baugher, her husband, brother and
sister-in-law traveled through New Zealand
in a small motorhome in 2006. They planned the
trip themselves, using guide books and the Internet, and spent most nights at
one of the plentiful Holiday Parks. They spent 10 days on the
North
Island
and 15 on the
South Island
. They visited Auckland,
Waiheke
Island, Waitomo (glow worm caves), Rotorua (Maori center and geothermal
activity), Napier (wine region), Wellington, Kaiteriteri (Abel
Tasman
National Park), Franz Josef Glacier, Queenstown, Milford
Sound (overnight cruise),
Dunedin
(penguins and albatross) and
Christchurch.
Oct.
2:
FLORIDA
AND
ENVIRONS
Join Richard and JoAnn Peter on a
tour of
Florida
that most Orlando-bound tourists never experience.
We’ll visit the
Everglades,
the Keys, small west-coast towns and beautiful coastal islands and see ‘gators
galore. Finally, we’ll wander
north into Georgia
and South
Carolina
to explore the
Okefenokee
Swamp
and the historic, architectural treasures of Savannah
and Charleston
that were spared by General Sherman.
Oct.
9: A GRAND TOUR OF
ITALY
Edwina
Young has taken cruises, tours
and Elderhostel adventures to the
Mediterranean
and would not take any trip to
Europe
that did not include at least
a few stops in Italy. This
is a love affair to be shared. There will be no visits inside Duomos or
cathedrals, just the beauty that is seen the lovely light of La Dolce Vita.
Oct.
16: EXPLORING THE EASTERN SLOPE
NOTE:
This week will meet in Eureka 111 because of the Library's furlough closure.
Aphra
Pia has explored Highway 395 for most
of her adult life, from skiing Mammoth and swimming in Mono
Lake
to camping in Bodie and climbing Mt.
Whitney. Her slide presentation will include
photographs not only of the immediate 395 vicinity, but also of places within
easy reach. These include the ghost town of Bodie, the Mono Lake tufas, the
beautiful scenery of June Lakes, the vistas from Mammoth, the basalt columns of
Devil’s Postpile, the ancient bristlecone pines on the White Mountains and the
top of Whitney.
Oct. 23: GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
Barbara
Woodard visited Kerala, India, in November 2008. This ancient
Malabar Coast
is the source of the spices that influenced the
world. It also has a long history of religious tolerance: an ancient Jewish
community, the oldest Muslim mosque in India, Christianity since 68 CE and Hindu temples.
Kerala also has a thriving economy, high mountain tea plantations, fertile rice
fields and the first elected Communist government.
Oct.
30: COMMUNIST DECAY AND DRACULA
A river cruise on the lower Danube
River
in Eastern
Europe
took Gail Allen from the
Baltic
Sea
to Romania,
Bulgaria,
The Republic of Serbia, Croatia
and
Hungary. Bucharest,
Belgrade
and Budapest
were the large cities on the route. One could see, 20 years later, signs
of the communist regime, mostly in the large, decaying apartment blocks. Her
favorite area was Brasov
in
central Transylvania,
Romania,
including Dracula's castle.
Nov. 6:
WALES
TREK
For 14 days, beginning on July 15, Bob
Seyfried walked the 177-mile Offa’s Dyke Path in Wales and managed to
survive, although barely! From Prestatyn in the north to Chepstow in the
south, the path winds along the English-Welsh border, following the line of the
1200-year-old frontier earthwork that gives it its name. This magnificent,
albeit rather taxing, long-distance footpath ranges over terrain as diverse as
any you will find in Britain; it traverses the whaleback ridges of the Clwydian
Hills, follows canal footpaths and old drovers' roads, goes through the
Shropshire Hills, over the Black Mountains and along the banks of the rivers
Dee, Wye and Severn. Along the way, the hiker visits the "Marcher"
castles dating from the Norman conquest, ancient abbeys and charming Welsh towns
and villages with wonderfully warm Welsh hospitality. Through a digital slide
presentation, Seyfried will take you through the rather constant drizzle and
slipping and sliding over the mostly muddy paths, most of which were liberally
deposited with cow and sheep dung.
Nov. 13:
COPPER
CANYON
Jim
and Louise Gibboney spent two weeks
in
Mexico
a year ago on a bus tour starting in
Tucson
,
Arizona
, and driving down into northern
Mexico
. They spent two days at the
Copper
Canyon
before boarding a train westward to
El Fuerte
,
Mexico
.
Nov. 20: MONGOLIAN
MADNESS
In July, Terry Moss
and a friend traveled to the relatively unknown destination of
Mongolia– the land
of
Gengis
Khan. They took in the colorful Naadam Festival in
Ulan Bator. The festival featured wrestling, archery and horseracing. They visited the Gobi
Desert, stayed in Gers and watched Mongol herdsmen milk their camels and mares.
Nov. 27: No
seminar; Thanksgiving holiday.
Dec. 4: IN THE
FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO
We don't
have a "live" presentation today. Instead we have a video that is an
amazing and fascinating example of travel and adventure. In 1993, two young
brothers from Queens, New York, decided to trace the path of storied explorer
Marco Polo from Venice to China and back. They eschewed air travel and set a
goal of seeking as many examples of 12th century-like life that they could find.
They found plenty of those as well as some harrowing adventures! This film was
made by PBS stations in New York.
Photos by Terry Moss and Allen Jamieson
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