This week’s Monday Memory is from our very own Elizabeth Killough, UnTours Foundation manager. Traveling may be dangerous to your figure or self esteem. At not quite 4 years old, I was in Sorrento, Maine, with my family at the town dock. We were visiting relatives and delivering a boat to them that my dad…
We are delighted—or perhaps re-lighted!—to be invested in One Degree Solar, producers of “BrightBox,” the best solar light and small appliance recharger we have yet seen. Most solar light brands last only until the first part on them breaks. Replacement parts, including bulbs, are especially hard to find in low wealth communities, where these lights…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We went to Buenos Aires in 2010. Our dollars went very far in Argentina and we had some spectacular meals at great restaurants for one third to one half of what they would cost in the States. There was a very small time change…
This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourists Margaret and Pete Haggart. In 2007, we visited Vienna for a week as an add-on to our two weeks in the Heartland of Switzerland. I taught film history for many decades at the University of Idaho and Vienna provided an opportunity to get my picture taken in front…
Well, actually, just a few paragraphs are. Our friends at SosteNica featured the UnTours Foundation and me in their fall newsletter. Find us on pages 2 & 3. SosteNica supports beautiful, green development in Nicaragua. I was recently at their office in West Chester, PA, which is affordably in the home of SosteNica’s president, Alan…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My most recent trip was to Tuscany, specifically to Le Chiuse and Montalcino. I have been back to this location twice as Lorenzo is such a lovely host, the vineyard is so beautiful, and the little village is such a wonderful place to wander…
Photo courtesy of North Durham Rotary Club The current focus areas of The Rotary Foundation are a close fit to the principles of Fair Trade. Rotary’s foci are the following: Promoting peace Fighting disease Providing clean water Saving mothers and children Supporting education Growing local economies The principles and rules of Fair Trade are simply…
The Dewoodys family are a lovely snapshot of the kind of family experience UnTouring together can offer. Check back tomorrow, October 30th for more of their wonderful pictures, as part of the final slideshow on Kids & Grandkids in Switzerland. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose…
This week’s Monday Memory is the second (here’s the first) from UnTourists Eleanor and Bill Kover. The first time we saw Paris was in 1973. Eleanor was 29 and I was 28. Our hotel, Etoile Park, was on 10 Avenue MacMahon, just down the street from the Arc de Triomphe. After 35 years we were…
We find it particularly delightful that Susan started travelling on UnTours in the 80’s with her parents, and has continued on her own. Tomorrow, we continue celebrating the UnTour habit, as it gets passed down the generations with another slideshow celebrating kids, their parents and their grandparents, on UnTours. 1. Tell us a little bit…