Start Your Own Travel Group

Start Your Own Travel Group AG WORLD Ag World 21-2-21 If you'd like to do more traveling you might want to consider starting your own travel group like the one that FARM SHOW reader Robert Lindsay of Viola, Idaho, joined about 10 years ago. Lindsay, who's retired, joined a local travel group called the "Idaho Roadrunners". The group owns a 20-passenger bus and hires a tour director to plan their trips to different parts of North America. The tour director organizes all trips and determines the trip schedule. He keeps track of expenses and charges each member so much per mile in order to pay for expenses. He also keeps personal information on each member so that he'll know who to contact in case of an emergency. "Starting your own travel group has a number of advantages," says Lindsay. "It costs about the same per day as driving by car, but we can spend our time socializing and having fun instead of having to drive. Also, the tour director knows where all the good places are. If anyone gets tired of the scenery they can just go to sleep. We store our luggage at the back of the bus, with each member allowed one carry-on and one suit-case. "Since we started the group we've made about 15 trips. Three years ago we traveled to Alaska for 26 days which was a lot of fun. We elect members to a æboard' that votes on group policies. Over the years some members have dropped out but new ones are always joining. One disadvantage to traveling like this is that if you go through a town where a relative or friend lives you can't stop to see them. However, if you wanted you could fly there and make arrangements for the bus to pick you up. "The tour director gets paid so much per mile for his work. We paid for the bus several years ago." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Robert E. Lindsay, 5315 Walker Rd., Viola, Idaho 83872 (ph 208 875-0080).

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