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Untourist of the Week: Edythe Salzman

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Greece Heartland Nafplio Switzerland

June 18, 2013 by Mtaussig

Edythe Salzmann and Jean Weisel take UnTours with us nearly every year.  This week they share the spotlight together as UnTourists of the Week.  We asked them for one picture.  They sent four, and they were all so good, we couldn’t choose!  Don’t they just look like the best of friends having the best of…  


Foundation Fridays: Speaking from the Heart

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Untours Foundation

June 7, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

Our guest blogger is Bob Gough, who among many titles, is the attorney for the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, which works on energy solutions including developing wind farms and straw bale housing construction on Indian reservations. Bob hosted Hal on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation several years back, and I finally met Bob when he…  


Mary & Bill Martin: Untourists of the Week

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Heartland Switzerland UnTourist Stories

June 4, 2013 by Mtaussig

1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Mary and I love Switzerland and UnTours. Our most recent trip was in Aug/Sep 2010 to Hasliberg-Reuti in Switzerland. We spent 2 weeks at the Pollux apartment with its incredible views of the Wetterhorn mountain group, the Eiger, and our local village (Reuti). Shortly…  


Foundation Fridays: A Musical Interlude

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Untours Foundation

May 31, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

The UnTours Foundation promotes smart, green, and generous businesses including B Corporations, which use Gandhi’s line: Be the Change. Here’s a song by the same title for your listening and viewing pleasure! Send us your photos that answer the question posed in the video!  We’ll post them on our Facebook page. “I’ve always thought people…  


Foundation Fridays: A Royal Flush

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Untours Foundation

May 24, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

Photo by Tom Coppen cc On the eve of World Water Day in March, the UN announced that there are more cell phones on this planet than toilets. Over one third of the world’s people have no toilets. Many of those who do, live where their sanitation “systems” go directly into rivers and oceans. When…  


Foundation Fridays: A Side of Pickles, Please

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Untours Foundation

May 17, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

We keep our UnTours Foundation board members busy in an effort to keep them out of trouble! Victor Mallet and Bill Wiedmann are working hard on our behalf selling pickles. The Philadelphia Inquirer found this all quite interesting. Read all about it! And watch a video (after a short ad) that includes a song about…  


Foundation Fridays: Look Who’s 90!

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Untours Foundation

May 10, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

When I met Norma Taussig 17 years ago, we bonded over Women Who Run With the Wolves, a powerful book about the female psyche written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. That connection led to the title of a poem I wrote for Norma’s 75th birthday. And here we are, about to celebrate Norma’s 90th birthday on…