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Finishing our last travel club adventure I find myself once again looking back and looking forward. Of course for each door that closes, another opens. The Nepal-India-Uzbekistan Adventure was our LAST travel club adventure. As must as we loved the last fifteen years traveling with friends, it is exhausting with all or the planning, accounting, and management of the trip. Over the last few years it was obvious to most that Bobbie and I were growing weary.
We love our friends and consider ourselves lucky that within the eight world adventures we have shared together, there have only been a few bad apples. As Jo Ellen so aptly put it last night, "the core group is tight." None of our adventures have been easy. They were designed to challenge all of us and challenge us they did. For a group of aging seniors, we continually amazed people around the world with our vitality and sense of adventure...including this last trip where four to six miles of walking each day was the norm...even in the excruciating heat...and climbing endless stares was no barrier. Sleeping on the ground in the desert and roaming the wilderness in search of rhino and tiger did not do us in...and we all are still alive to tell the tales.
By building trips as cost and sharing equally in the expense we all enjoyed travel like no other tourist group and saw 58 countries, all seen continents, and experienced world cultures at better than half the price of a standard and boring package tour.
While the travel club has closed its doors, there will still be opportunities to travel with friends in the future. Andrea joins us in February for a few months in the Balkans and Italy. Carol meets us next March in Venice for three months to celebrate her "80 years around the world," Andi and Kathryn link up with us in Tanzania next July, and a four friends meet us in South Africa next October.
So we are no alone in our nomadic adventure...jsut no long tour mangers, leaders, and guides...and that is a good thing.
ON TO KAZAKHSTAN!
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