Worldwide Travel Talks of Tucson, Arizona

Worldwide Travel Talks meets the second* Sunday of the month, September through May, at the Nanini Library. This library is located at 7300 North Shannon Road, in the Northwest Tucson area.  Participants of the club meet to enjoy presentations which may include slides, videos, photographs, brochures, etc. of their trips. We have no dues, nor elected officers.

Meetings are held from 2:30 PM until 4:30 PM. All are welcome to attend. For further information please call George Eddington at 520-825-8956 (EDDINGTON5@aol.com),  Dolores Rohrer at 520-296-1986 (doloresrohrer@cox.net), or Dick Englert at 520-721-8857 (dickenglert@cox.net).

The International Travel News magazine provides our club with publicity. A link to their web page is located at the bottom of this page.

* some holiday exceptions 

2013 tentative program schedule:

May 12 - Turkey

 We did a 29 day tour of Turkey with Cultural Folk Tours in March/April 2011.  This is way too much ground to cover in one hour (5,000 miles, in fact) so we will be confining this show to Istanbul and Eastern Turkey.  We will still barely scratch the surface of locations rich with Hittite, Roman, Christian, and Ottoman history.  Our route goes from Istanbul due east to the Hittite ruins at Yazilikaya and along the coast of the Black Sea.  From Amasya, we travel to the Silk Road Seaport of Trabzon, then inland through Kurdish villages, viewing the Euphrates River Valley from an 8K ft. summit as we head to the Turkish-Armenian border.  We stay at Kars, visiting the fortified walls and Armenian Orthodox ruins at Ani, then skirt the Iranian border and Mt.Ararat on the way to Van (in the news after a major earthquake last year).  We continue past Iraq ,along the Syrian border to Urfa, birthplace of the prophet Abraham and a place of pilgrimage for both Christians and Muslims, driving up Mt. Nemrut for a hiking adventure.   After taking a side trip to Ankara, we end this, the less-traveled part of the tour, in Cappadocia. By John & Gayle Swarbrick

June, July, & August, there will be no meetings 

Links to club member travel web pages:

Phyllis & Nordien Jackson www.jacksontravel.blogspot.com

Roger & Bettye Root www.toten.info/~roger/travel

List of the past five years of programs:

2008

Jan. – Morocco – Joan & Fred Frech

Feb. –  Route of the Maya – Bill Klett

Mar. –  The Fjords of Norway – Ken Macleish

Apr. – Easter Island & Peru - Phyllis & Nordien Jackson

May - Vietnam & Cambodia – Karen Hahn

Sept. Indonesia & Bali – Karen Hahn

Oct. – Mexico , visit to Mata Ortiz – Katy & Mary Jo

Nov. – Cruise Florida to Italy – Roger & Bettye Root

Dec. – Cruise Italy to Rio de Janeiro – Karen Hahn

 2009

Jan. – Botswana , Namibia , Zimbabwe , & South Africa – Karen Hahn

Feb. – Rhine – Mosel river trip – Bill Klett

Mar. – Spain , Portugal , and a bit of Morocco – Bill Klett

Apr. – India – Jan & Chuck McGary

May – River Cruise – Amsterdam to Black Sea – Fred & Joan Frech

Sept. – Trinidad & Tobago – Dave Hamlin

Oct. – Argentina – Jack & Katheryn Goldthorpe

Nov. – Namibia – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Dec. – Egypt & Jordan – Karen Hahn

 2010

Jan. –   Louvre Museum – Jan & Chuck McGary

Feb. – 40 years of travel – Bill Klett

Mar. – Borneo – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Apr. – India & Bhutan – Karen Hahn

May. – Scandinavia – Jan & Chuck McGary

Sept. – Cruise - South American, Pacific side – Roger & Bettye Root

Oct. – Cruise – Japan , South Korea , & China – Karen Hahn

Nov. – Bordeaux , Loire , & Carcassonne – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Dec. – Prado Museum in Madrid – Jan & Chuck McGary

 2011

Jan. – Romania & Germany – Phyllis & Nordien Jackson

Feb. – Maritime Provinces of Canada – Bill Klett

Mar. – Route of the Maya – Karen Hahn

Apr. – Walking Tuscany & Umbria – Gordon McCall

May – South Africa , Swaziland , & Lesotho – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Sept. – Bicycle Tour of Europe – Richard Burns

Oct. – Turkey ’s Magical Hideaways – Karen Hahn

Nov. – South India & Sri Lanka – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Dec. – Inca Empire & Machu Picchu – Gordon McCall

 2012

Jan. – Walking the Dordogne River Valley – Gordon McCall

Feb. – Patagonia , Tierra Del Fuego & Chilean Fjords – Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Mar. - The Riches of Rome - Jan McGary 

Apr. - Tanzania and Rwanda - Karen Hahn 

May - Gilded Age - Jan McGary 

Sept. - Switzerland from the village of Murren – Karen Hahn

Oct. - South Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic - Jan McGary

Nov. - The Baltic Capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer

Dec. - A Path Less Traveled: Hiking in France - Gordon McCall

 2013

Jan. - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer - North and South Islands of New Zealand

Feb. – Willy and Steve Campos - Romania and Moldova:  Transylvania to Transdniestr

Mar. - Karen Hahn - Napal

Apr. - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer - Africa

xxxx  - Skipping around the World 

Several short features on highlights of our many years of travel. Starting with Hiroshima, Japan sixty years after the devastation of the A-Bomb; hopping across the sea to Xian, China for a quick tour of the site of the Terra Cotta Warriors. Then on to Athens, Greece and a day trip to Kalampaka at the base of Meteora Monastaries. From Greece we hop to Hallstatt, Austria for a quick look at this charming town and the Bone House at the local catholic parish church where you will see over 1,000 decorated skulls from the 18th C. After a night in the Sahara Desert where we traveled by camel and slept in tents, we'll end our journey with an add-on of Dick and Dee's presentation (2011) of their trip to southern Chile. You'll see our pictures of a muddy Iguazu Falls (November) and our hiking on the Moreno Glacier, just across the Chilean border in Argentina. We will also show our breathtaking up-close pictures of the San Rafael Glacier in Chile. By Phyllis & Nordien Jackson

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Last update Apr 15, 2013