Leading The Way In Innovative Tours Since 1995

   
                            A Little About Myself


Sitting atop Huayna Picchu,
the sugarloaf mountain above
Machu Picchu. The climb, much
of it straight up, follows an
ancient Inca path and takes
 about two hours

 

 

 

 

 On the White Continent.


Omaha Beach 60th Anniversary
of   D-Day

 
Utah Beach 60th Anniversary
of D Day


Alaskan Dog Sledding


Adrift in Hong Kong


On The Great Wall of China


Testing out the ice bed at the Ice Hotel


A troika ride in Pavlovsk Park, Russia.

 I am a retired Special Education teacher with thirty years experience in the Pennridge School District. All my life I have enjoyed the pleasures that come from traveling within the United States and throughout the world. One of my favorite expressions is, "The world is a book, and he who does not travel, reads only the first page." Both my father and grandfather worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, and every Sunday the family would get into the car and drive the highways my father had helped build. I guess you could say I inherited my wanderlust. Since my fellow colleagues knew of my many travels and that I had designed several In-Service Day trips for the local school district, when I retired in 1993, they encouraged me to turn my avocation into a vocation. With many tour agencies competing in the surrounding area, I knew in order to be successful I had to offer something different. Therefore, I decided to use my background in education to create tours with a difference.

All the tours I designed are:

  • based around a theme
  • aimed at educators, researchers, and people with a keen interest in America's history, culture, heritage, and beauty
  • fully guided using educators and/or people knowledgeable in the theme of the tour

Larry Weikel
 
   
 
Personal Travel Experiences
  • Partaking of a Christmas pilgrimage in the Holy Lands
  • Trekking over the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon commemorating the Trail's
    150th anniversary
  • Riding the Orient Express during the summer and covering the same route on
    the Glacier Express the following winter
  • Walking the Inca Trail through the cloudforest of Peru to Machu Picchu
  • Attending the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria
  • Taking a tour of castles in Hungary and the Czech Republic
  • Safaring in Africa on three different occasions:
    Gorilla safari in Zaire (Congo)
    Walking safari in Zambia
    Caravan safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
  • Celebrating Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
  • Welcoming the 2000 Millennium on the International Dateline
  • Cross-country tour of Cuba
  • Touring the white continent, Antarctica.
  • Attending the 60th Anniversary of D Day
  • Plying the Mississippi River on the annual steamboat race
  • Dog sledding in the Alaskan wilderness
  • Celebrating Chinese New Year in Hong Kong
  • Three weeks touring much of China
  • Sleeping in the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden
  • Experiencing a Russian Winter