Mid-Valley Travel Club Schedule

Attendance at meetings of the Mid-Valley Travel Club, now averaging around 70, and ranging up to a record high of 130 in June 2010, reflects the quality of presentations offered by Club members, for which we are most grateful.

Our 17th season (see below) will cover diverse topics on six continents (no, we can't have Antarctica every year!), ranging from countries typically overrun by Americans (UK & Italy), to others easily traveled (Denmark & Australia), to others more demanding (China, India), or slightly exotic (Botswana, Peru), and to one way off most beaten tracks (Home Away from Home in Panama). For the most frequently visited of all countries, I am particularly pleased to include our first presentation on an extensive, Transcontinental North American Drive across both Canada and the USA.

The Mid-Valley Travel Club encourages new voices, of which there are no less than six this season; the other four are veterans of earlier years. Last season's presenters, however excellent, were deliberately excluded, in order to give others a chance, but they will be eligible again in 2011-2012. They, and the rest of you, should start planning ahead, as I already have six proposals provisionally scheduled for that season. Please contact me by phone (I'm in the Salem Phone Directory) or by using the form on our web site's home page.

I continue to meet Salem area residents who are frequent travelers, yet unaware of the Mid-Valley Travel Club, despite our 16 successful seasons since 1994 and our considerable publicity in the Salem Statesman Journal; the Salem Public Library's newsletter; and flyers posted at some coffee-houses, restaurants, and bookshops downtown. If you have friends who travel, please direct them to the Club's comprehensive website http://www.midvalleytravelclub.org/ and PLEASE bring them along to meetings. Larger attendances encourage more lively discussions, from which both neophytes and experienced travelers can learn.

Derek Stables
Program Chairman
Mid-Valley Travel Club

DATE	PROGRAM	PRESENTER
Thursday, September 9, 2010	A DIY Classic China Itinerary	Everett Mozell
Thursday, October 14, 2010	Home Away from Home in Panama	Jeff & Lorie Bickford
Thursday, November 4, 2009	Twice Across the Divide–A Canada/USA Transcontinental Drive	Ben Gentile
Thursday, December 9, 2010	Northern Peru–Beyond Machu Picchu	Virginia Vanderbilt
Thursday, January 13, 2011	A Danish Treat	Dick & Jane Groff
Thursday, February 10, 2011	A Tempting Tuscan Trio–Siena, Lucca, and the Cinque Terre	George Adkins
Thursday, March 10, 2011	An Overture to Oxford and Oxfordshire	Darelene Strozut
Thursday, April 14, 2011	Intense India	Don & Judy Jacobsen
Thursday, May 12, 2011	Boondocking in Botswana–Camping Wild and Alone in a Land Rover	Charlie Wilson
Thursday, June 9, 2011	Across Australia by Train	Rey Kirkman