Barb and Ed's Travels: Sep 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Bloomington Gold Tours

5-Day National Park Tour:

September 23-28, 2008
Northern Arizona & Southern Utah

The pictures are of Barb in her surprise Chrismas present - a 2003 50th Anniversary Edition Corvette.

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We leave Saturday, September 20 in Barb's Corvette to travel to Kansas City to visit Jeff and Kris and our grandkids, Eathan and Molly. It has been long time since we have been there and we are looking forward to stopping.

Sunday morning we will leave Kansas City and make our way to Flagstaff.

Hopefully the top will be down the entire trip!!

We plan to arrive in Flagstaff, AZ by Monday evening.

We will meet our friends, Dale and Judy from the Chicago area and a new couple Lynn and Tom from Ohio for lunch in Sodna on Tuesday.

The link to Bloomington Gold Tours is:
http://www.corvette-n-america.com/park_tour/default.htm

The Tour begins:
Day 1, Tuesday, September 23 starts in Flagstaff
Day 2, Wednesday, September 24, we drive to North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, AZ – 206 miles
Day 3, Thursday, September 25, we drive to Zion National Park, UT – 123 miles
Day 4, Friday, September 26, we drive to Bryce Canyon National Park, UT – 89 miles
Day 5, Saturday, September 27, we drive to Capitol Reef National Park, UT – 118 miles
Day 6, Sunday, September 28, we leave Capitol Reef National Park, UT and drive home

The Tour Package Includes:
5 Nights Lodging in 1st Class Accommodations
Preferred Corvette Parking at Hotels
85% of Meals (some meals not with group & are open for your choosing)
All Breakfasts (full, hot)
3 Lunches
3 Dinners (including Finale Dinner Banquet)
Activities Including a 1 Hour Mule Ride (Grand Canyon) & Giant Screen Movie Viewing (Zion)
Merchandise
Group Photo
Commemorative Tour Guide with Maps, Tour Route & Day-by-Day Schedule
Bloomington Gold Tour Award

The Tour Highlights are:
“Start Your Engines” breakfast
Grand Canyon (North Rim) National Park
Lodging at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
1 hour mule ride on the rim of the Grand Canyon
Sunset dinner at Grand Canyon Lodge – “It doesn’t get better than this!”
Spectacular cruise through Zion National Park
Giant screen (Zion National Park) 45-minute film
Lunch at the Buffalo Grille & Ranch
Bryce Canyon National Park
124-mile cruise on Utah’s Highway 12, labeled an All American Road and “the most scenic drive in America” according to Car & Driver Magazine
First rate hotel accommodations including a stay at “1 of the 25 best American lodges” according to Travel & Leisure Magazine
Capitol Reef National Park
4 National Parks in 5 days
Finale dinner banquet with views of beautiful Capitol Reef National Park
The most spectacular scenery in the world
Great Corvette camaraderie

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October - 2024

On September 30, we will fly to Barcelona for a couple of days before boarding the Celebrity Equinox on October 2. We will cruise to Marseille, France, Nice, France, Santa Margherita, Italy, Florence, Italy, and Naples, Italy before arriving in Rome on October 12. We are overnight in Florence and we plan to take the train to the city and stay in the city overnight before going back to the ship the next day. We then plan to fly to Marrakech, Morocco for a couple of days before flying home. Come cruise with us!!

Spring - 2024

On February 28, we will fly to Miami for a couple of days before boarding the MSC Seascape for a 7 night Easter Caribbean cruise. We will cruise to Nassau, San Juan, Dominican Republic and Ocean Cay, MSC’s private island. This will be our second time on an MSC ship and once again we will be in the Yacht Club. We hope our experience on this ship equals our experience in Europe last October. It was the best cruise we have ever taken - the cruise, not the people as we love the people who have cruised with us before and hope to in the future

October 2022

We are planning on flying to Rome on October 3 and spend a few nights there before a 12 Night Israel & Mediterranean Cruise on the Celebrity Apex going to the following ports ROME (CIVITAVECCHIA), ITALY OLYMPIA (KATAKOLON), GREECE ATHENS (PIRAEUS), GREECE EPHESUS (KUSADASI), TURKEY HAIFA, ISRAEL - From Haifa, we will travel by car to JERUSALEM (ASHDOD), ISRAEL and stay overnight right outside the entrance to the Old City. LIMASSOL, CYPRUS. and finally depart the ship in Rome. We will spend 2 days in Rome before taking the train to Venice for 5 days and then fly to Prague for 4 days before coming home.

July 2022

On July 19 we will fly to Seattle for overnight before flying to Fairbanks for 2 days. Then we will travel by Dome car train to Denali for 2 days. After Danali, we will again take the train to Anchorage for 2 more days. Then the train again to Seward for 2 days until we board the Celebrity Milennium on and have a tour until boarding the Celebrity on July 29 for a 7 night Alaska Southbound cruise. We will cruise to the Huybbarb Glacier, Jueneau, Skagway, Icy Strait Point, Ketchikan the Inside Passage ands arrive in Vancouver to 2 days before before flying home on August 7.

October - 2021 -

We had planned to travel to Venice for a couple of days and then take the Celebrity Constellation on a Venice to Rome 9 night cruise that begins Oct 14. After the cruise we will spend a few more days in Rome before heading to Prague for a few days before flying to Lisbon for one day before flying home. We would have been gone from Oct 9 - Oct 30.

As that cruise has been moved to October of 2022, instead on Oct 15 we will fly to Ft. Lauderdale, stay at the Residence Sunny Isle beach for a few days and then board the Celebrity Equinox for a 9 night Southern Caribbean cruise taking us to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Grand Cayman.

We will return home on October 29

July 4 - 2016

For the first time in many years, we will not be visiting a city for the 4th of July fireworks.
Instead, we will drive to Bayonne, NJ in two days and they we will be leaving on July 3 from Bayonne which is just across the river from New York City for a 7 day cruise to Bermuda.
We sail on July 3 and are at sea until arriving at Kings Warf, Bermuda on July 6. We will spend the 6th, 7th and leave in the afternoon of the 8th in Bermuda and then arrive back in New Jersey on July 10 when we will drive home.

New Years - 2016

We will celebrate New Years Eve by boarding a plane on Dec 31 and arriving on Jan 1 in Buenos Aries, where it will be summer time! We will stay in Buenos Aries until Jan 3 when we will board the Celebrity Infinity and travel to:
Montevideo, Uruguay, Punta del Este, Uruguay, Puerto Madryn Argentina, Cape Horn, Chile, Ushuais, Argentina, Punta Arenas, Chile, the Strait of Magellan,the Chilean Fjords, Puerto Montt, Chile and arriving at Valpariso, Chile on Jan 17 when we will go to Santiago for a couple of days before flying home on Jan 19, arriving on Jan 20 at 10:46am

Greece, Turkey and Croatia Cruise - Oct, 2015

On Oct 8 we will fly from Chicago to London and then board another plane to fly to Istanbul, Turkey, arriving on Oct 9 in the morning. We will stay at the Marriott Istanbul Hotel Sisli until we board the Celebrity Constellation on Oct 12. During the cruise we will visit:
Katakolon, Greece
Corfu, Greece
Slit, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Athens, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey

and arrive in Istanbul and leave on October 23 flying back the same way from Istanbul to London to Chicago on October 24 after we stay the final night in Istanbul.

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