Destination Knowledge

In addition to my extensive tour experience, I know the following areas.

Domestic Destination Knowledge:

•    WESTERN STATES / PACIFIC NORTHWEST:  California – Yosemite National Park, Napa/Sonoma Wine Country, Monterey, Carmel, 17-mile Drive, Redwood Highway/Ferndale/Eureka, Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs, San Diego;  New Mexico – Albuquerque, Carlsbad Caverns; Washington – Seattle

•    ROCKY MOUNTAIN:  Colorado – Denver, Colorado Springs, Rocky Mountain National Park, Aspen, Colorado National Monumen; Montana – Glacier National Park

•    CENTRAL:  Michigan – Detroit;  Missouri – Kansas City, Independence; Oklahoma – Oklahoma City, Tulsa (8 years); Arkansas – Eureka Springs, Bentonville

•    SOUTHERN:  Texas – Dallas/Ft. Worth; North Carolina – Charlotte; Florida – Key West, Orlando/Disneyworld/EPCOT

International Destination Knowledge:

•    EUROPE:  17-day western Europe tour (2004), Paris, Lucerne, Lugano, Milan, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Assisi, Venice, Innsbruck, Munich, Heidelberg, Amsterdam and area, Brussels, London (Globus); Grand European Student Tour (5 weeks, 1978) – Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Heidelberg, Munich, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome (American Institute for Foreign Study)

•    BRITISH ISLES:  England (2 times, 10 days), Custom tour to Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, 2012 (10 days)

•    FRANCE: Provence (4 days, 3/2017) Julia Child's home, Nice, Biot, Grasse

•    MEXICO:  Mexico City (3 days)

•    EGYPT:  Nile cruise, Luxor to Aswan (8 days, 11/2008)