Message from the President

While composing this newsletter I’m also running around and packing for our Morocco tour. We have a great group of 17 guys for this tour, and amazing adventures are in store for us! You can follow along by checking my posts on our Facebook Page. I’ll try to upload a few photos every day once the tour kicks into gear on Halloween. We’ll be costumed as very happy Toto Tourists enjoying our welcome festivities in Casablanca. “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

The detailed itinerary for our exciting new Peru adventure is now available on our website. Within a few hours of it being published we received reservations from some who had already expressed interest in the tour! The highlight of our expedition will, of course, be our time spent at incredible Machu Picchu. But things get even better from there as we board the luxury Belmond Andean Explorer train and continue for two nights to Lake Titicaca and on to beautiful Arequipa, a World Heritage City at the foot of a stunning volcano. Click here to see the full details of this unique journey to discover the mysteries of the Inca.

January 2024

In our last newsletter we indicated that we were in the planning stages for a tour of the best of southern India, focusing on the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Those plans are nearly complete, and it is shaping up to be a 14-day journey beginning in Chennai on January 10, 2024, and ending in Cochin on January 23. Those dates do not include international travel to and from India. In addition to sampling the dazzling temples, beaches and a special festival (Pongal) in Tamil Nadu, luxuriate in the beautiful highlands, tea plantations and canals of lush Kerala. If you have only experienced North India, you haven’t seen anything yet! Please let us know if you’d like to receive an advance copy of this new itinerary via email.

We are happy to announce that we have secured a luxury hotel barge for a leisurely trip on the canals of France, from the Upper Loire to the Ile de France in late September 2024. For those who have never been to Paris before, an optional 3-day Paris city tour will be available before the cruise begins. The main tour starts with a night in Paris, followed by a transfer to Briare to begin our seven-day / six-night cruise north, taking in many quaint villages and grand estates along the way. Among the highlights will be a visit to the village of Barbizon and the sumptuous castle of Fontainebleau. All meals and beverages (including fine wines) are included aboard. We’ll end with a farewell dinner and one more overnight in Paris. Let us know if you would like us to add you to the list of people to notify when more details are available.