“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..." - Mark Twain“

As someone that believes the greatest experience students can have is travel, I've chaperoned now 5 international trips with the educational tour company, EF Tours.  To see some of the adventures of these trips, click the Shutterfly galleries below.  The adventures began with Italy, then Spain, the third time I opted for Central America and went to Belize and then Panama.   The first two albums are from my most recent trip to Cuba!  Havana antics in the big city, and then our adventures in the rural areas, including Trinidad, Cienfuegos, and Remedios.

Fundraise and Travel for Free!

Think you can't afford an international travel tour? Think again!  EF Tour will include a fundraising page for you so you can send it to lots of people, and they can easily donate to your trip!  Here's how!

You can also apply for one of the many $1000 scholarships EF Tours gives away each year!  Click here to learn how to apply!  And for additional cool ways to raise money, visit the EF Tour blog page here.

Also below are other galleries from some of my favorite photos from personal visits to Washington, DC, (including the year I pedaled a rickshaw around during President Obama's 2013 inauguration) and then a trip I took during the "hot vax summer" of 2020 throughout the Deep South, where I visited MANY bucket list civil rights sites, historical cities, oh, and ate some great Southern food!  ​Hopefully, these galleries will inspire everyone to travel more, and especially for teens to experience all the learning that comes through international travel!