Mike's 2025 Schedule

 

One year has ended . . . . .

Another has begun . . . . .

     I have just returned to my home in Virginia after spending the holidays up north with family and friends.  A chance to create new memories and re-visit memories of days gone by.  Lots of photos and laughs and plans to get together again. Time presses on.

     As the New Year takes hold, it is time to look ahead to future adventures and travels.  Caravan has already posted dates for the Grand Canyon tours for 2025.  Hoping that the Yellowstone dates get posted soon.

     This is just the first step in forming my Tour Schedule for 2025.  I must await a phone call from Caravan to settle on specific dates for my tours.  This could happen by the end of January,  but sometimes doesn't happen till the end of March.  I have no way of predicting.  Apologies for the challenge this creates in booking tours with me.

     Once my dates are agreed upon, I will post my schedule on this website.  I can tell you I will be leading Grand Canyon tours in April, May, September and October.  I try to request dates that stay at the Thunderbird or Kachina Lodges at the Grand Canyon. In June, July and August, I will lead tours to Yellowstone.   

     Caravan has recently added sites to each of their western US tours.  On the Grand Canyon tour, we now include Antelope Slot Canyon on the Navajo Reservation. This is a wonderland of sculpted sandstone that defies description.  An amazing narrow canyon where light and shadow mix in an otherworldly combination that you will never forget.  On the Yellowstone tour, Caravan has added a day to visit Badlands National Park and Wall Drug Store.  Another unique landscape that will defy your ability to comprehend.  Such are the joys of discovering the West and our National Parks.

          Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, snow is gently covering up the landscape.  The promise of new life to come is temporarily hidden by a reflective, white mantle of snow and ice.  Coming soon will be longer days of more and more light, till the warmth of Spring surrounds us.  In the meantime, Caravan offers an amazing array of tours to Mexico and Latin America.  You may even see me on one of those tours if I can work out travel plans. 

     Of course,  the West's stark and rugged beauty calls to me as well.  Can't wait to feel a sagebrush-born breeze, as I listen to a canyon wren, and gaze at landscapes that challenge my ability to comprehend them and leave me in awe.  May adventures continue to enrich your Lives, and may our paths cross again on tour or in the most unexpected places.  Cheers!! 

 

This schedule has been updated on January 10, 2025.