Tour Tale: It Feels Like Yesterday
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| "That tour and the experience I had in Europe is the single most positive highlight of my life." |
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Dear Rick,
Rick, it's been over 6 years since I took the Best of Europe in 21 Days tour with my family, but some days it feels like yesterday. I just wanted to write to you because even to this day, that tour and the experience I had in Europe is the single most positive highlight of my life. For years, I dreamed of traveling in Europe. Your tour not only allowed me to do that, but it also bit me hard with the traveling bug. I yearn to go back!
I love exclaiming, "I've been there!!" when I see a site on TV or in a movie. I love that I've studied paintings and sculptures up close and experienced them with my own eyes. I love the architecture and antiquity that I got to witness. Not only was it the tour itself, but the guide — Ben Cameron — that made the trip so fantastic (and our bus driver Francois!). Ben really knows how to make the tour one of a kind, both in experiences and in education.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know that your tour is so special to me. It definitely has a place in my heart and I'm so thankful you created a company that really reaches to the dreams and desires of travelers like me. I'm saving my dollars and counting the days until I can travel with you again! Thank you.
— Erin in Springfield, OR
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