BALDWIN SENIOR TRAVELERS

NEWSLETTER    September 2021

 

Baldwin Senior Travelers

Newsletter for September 2021

 

UPCOMING TRIPS

 

 Dinner and Bingo. Re-scheduled to January 13, 2022

FULL.  WAITLIST.

Fairhope Yacht Club

Escorts: Sandra and Fred Bostrom

 

Laurel, MS 

WAITLIST

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Cost:  $55.00 per person

Escorts:  Gene McGonigle and Debra Bryant

Once a thriving logging community and cultural hub, by the 1990’s, Laurel was mostly abandoned.  In the past decade or so, the residents of Laurel pulled together to transform the little town.  You may recognize the names Ben & Erin Napier from their HGTV show Home Town.  With their business partners, Erin and Ben have renovated over 50 homes in and near Laurel.

Our first stop will be at Landrum’s Homestead & Village which is located 10 minutes outside of Laurel.  Next, we’ll head to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art & listen to a bit of history from the Museum Director.  Spend time discovering what this quaint town has to offer.  When enroute home, we’ll make a quick visit at The Deason Home – The New State of Jones.

 

Iceland’s Magical Northern Lights Document Meeting

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Escorts:  Gene McGonigle and Debra Bryant

Fairhope Civic Center Chambers

Immediately after the BST membership meeting on October 7th.

 

WWII Museum and Mardi Gras World - postponed

New Orleans, LA

 

Iceland’s Magical Northern Lights

FULL. WAITLIST.

Saturday, October 16 – 23, 2021

Cost:  3799.00

Escorts:  Gene McGonigle and Debra Bryant

Iceland – a land and culture formed by fire and ice.  Where steaming lava fields and massive glaciers sculpt mountains and valleys, leaving thundering waterfalls and plunging fjords.  Enjoy the rare opportunity to see the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights.  Nightly, we will head into the darkness in search of the northern lights.

The tour begins in Reykjavik.  Travel to the Golden Circle which encompasses many of Iceland’s renowned natural wonders.  Continue to Vic, the southernmost village in Iceland.  Travel to Jokuslaerlon Glacial Lagoon.  Visit the Lava Exhibition Center and the Blue Lagoon.  The Blue Lagoon is a pleasantly warm, mineral rich water located in the middle of a dramatic lava field

 

Yoga with Alpaca’s and scarf making

Silverhill, AL

Friday, November 5, 2021

Rain date is Saturday, November 6, 2021

Escorts:  Gene McGonigle and Debra Bryant

Cost:  140.00 (includes lunch and cost of materials)

            Meet at the Fairhope Walmart parking lot at 8:30 a.m. (behind American Family Care).  Starting at 9:00 a.m. enjoy 45 minutes of Yoga with the Alpacas.  For those that cannot get down on a mat, chairs will be provided.  At 10:00 we begin our felted cobweb scarf class.  Choose your colors and embellishments for your scarf.  Alpaca, sheep, silk, bamboo, and novelty fibers will be felted together to create your one-of-a-kind scarf.  No felting experience needed!  Class should finish between 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  Lunch will be provided by Café Acadiana.  Drinks and snacks also provided.

 

Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival

Ocean Springs, MS

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Cost:  $35.00 per person

Escorts:  Noah and Mary Funderburg

We are traveling to lovely Ocean Springs, MS to visit Mississippi’s largest arts and crafts festival.  There will be over 300 vendors, food, music, and artist demonstrations throughout the downtown.  This will be a great opportunity to find that perfect Christmas gift for the special someone, or that hard to buy for person.  Put on some comfy shoes and let’s explore together this wonderful event.

 

Viking Cooking School and Other Great Adventures

Greenwood, MS area

CANCELLED.  Will try to re-schedule for 2022

Escorts: Sandra and Fred Bostrom

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Chickasaw Civic Theatre

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Cost:  $38.00 person

Escorts:  Noah and Mary Funderburg

Billed as a trivial comedy for serious people by Oscar Wilde.  The play concerns two young gentlemen in Victorian England each of whom has created a false double identity in order to escape responsibilities for a more exciting and frivolous life.  The two false doubles lead to amusing hijinks when one gentleman falls in love with the cousin of the other.  She will only marry someone named Ernest, but alas Ernest is the name of one of the fictitious characters.  When her mother becomes suspicious and begins to investigate, the hilarious truth unfolds.  This is Oscar Wilde’s best-known play.  Come watch as the two gentlemen try to wriggle out of the fantasy they have created.

 

Christmas Fantasy and Splendor

WAITLIST

Atlanta – Biltmore – Callaway Gardens

Monday, December 6 – Friday, December 10. 2021

Cost:  $1400.00 double occupancy/ $1900 single

Depart:  Monday, December 6 from Daphne Target parking lot.

Escorts:  Noah and Mary Funderburg

Our long-awaited trip is only a few months away.  We start our trip with lunch in Montgomery and stopping in Atlanta for dinner and our first night’s rest.  Tuesday, we travel to the Antler Hill Inn at the Biltmore House where we will stay for two nights.  Our first night we will have a candlelight tour of the Biltmore House after a we enjoy a delicious dinner.  The next day we will have all day to explore the Biltmore Estate grounds, as well as visit the House again.  We will enjoy a second dinner at the Biltmore Wednesday evening.  Thursday, we travel to Callaway Gardens.  We will dine at our hotel before going on a trolley ride through the Fantasy of Lights, miles upon miles of lights creating scenes and characters of the Christmas season.   Friday we will visit the butterfly house at Callaway before traveling to the Little White House of FDR in Warm Springs, GA.  We will lunch in Warm Springs before reluctantly setting out for home.  We should be back Friday evening about 6:00 pm with a lifetime of memories from a week of fantasy and splendor.

 

Annual Christmas Party

Oak Hollow Farms

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Time:   11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Cost:    $30.00

Escorts:  Gene McGonigle and Debra Bryant

Members also can mail a check to the BST Mailbox for this event

 

Dinner and Bingo. Re-scheduled from September 2021

Cost:  $

Thursday, January 13, 2022 beginning at 6:00 pm

Fairhope Yacht Club

Escorts: Sandra and Fred Bostrom

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Grand Hawaiian Adventure with Collette Tours

March 17 - 29, 2022

Cost:  $6199/00 double occupancy/$7999 single

Depart from Pensacola airport

Escorts:  Noah and Mary Funderburg

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Italy, Croatia, and Greece cruise on Holland America

July 14-288, 2022

Limited to first 40 BST members who sign up

Cost. $6,400 +/- (double occupancy) - this includes: Cruise (w/pkgs) fees & taxes, hotel in Venice, transfers, airfare, trip insurance.

Fly to Venice, Italy day prior & tour Venice before boarding Holland America cruise ship (1,964 passengers) Includes Specialty Dining & Beverage package, free WIFI, & $200 excursion pkg  – Visit ports in Split & Dubrovnik, Croatia, Saranda, Albania, Olympia, Souda & Mykonos, Greece, Valletta & Victoria, Malta, Palermo (Sicily) & Naples then to Rome, Italy for return home!!  . There is so much history and beautiful sights to enjoy.  This has been on a lot of BST members’ bucket list so let’s get signed up with passport & Covid vaccination.   

 

Europe and the Oberammergau Passion Play.  

July 31 – August 11, 2022

Cost:  $6,999 double occupancy/ $8,699 single

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP IS AUGUST 15, 2021

Depart from Pensacola airport

Escorts:  Noah and Mary Funderburg

We travel with Collette Tours on an exciting 12-day adventure visiting four countries.  We start with two days on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.  We next travel to Zermatt, Switzerland at the foot of The Matterhorn for two days.  We will enjoy this lovely town where vehicles are banned, which makes strolling at leisure safer and more fun.  Hike through the Alps or rest and enjoy the majesty of the Alpine mountains.  We next board the Glacier Express train for a ride through those Alps into Austria.  We will have a three-course meal on the train before we arrive in St. Moritz, the playground of the rich and famous (which now includes us.). From St. Moritz we travel to Innsbruck, Austria where we will tour the medieval city.  The next day we travel to Salzburg to see many historical sites, including some scenes from The Sound of Music.  That evening we will dine at central Europe’s oldest restaurant and enjoy a Mozart dinner concert.  The next day we leave Austria and stop along our way to Oberammergau at the famous Neuschwanstein Castle (think Sleeping Beauty castle and Disney.). The following day we enjoy the incredible Passion Play which the citizens of Oberammergau have been presenting every ten years since the mid-1600s.  Finally, we travel to Munich for tours of the city and Olympic Park. 

 

Maritimes Coastal Wonders – Canada

Sunday, September 25, 2022 – October 6, 2022

Cost:  $4298.00 double occupancy

Escorts:  Rae Miller and Mary Jane Vines

 

TRIPS IN THE WORKS

 

2022

 

January 23      Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming 

Chickasaw Civic Theater

 

February 2022. Beau Rivage 

  

March 2022. Blithe Spirit 

Chickasaw Civic Theater

 

April 2022. French Quarter Festival 

New Orleans

 

May 2022. Man of La Mancha 

Chickasaw Civic Theater

 

May 2022 Beau Rivage 

 

August 2022 Beau Rivage 

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Wetumpka, AL overnight trip

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Memphis, TN and possibly Hot Springs, AR

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Branson, MO or a similar trip

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