Happy New Year. Hope 2017 has started well - in less than three months we will be in the USA!
Quite a few things to report as we gear up. Please read carefully through:
- Final tour payments are due this month - on the 25th. Full payment schedule is here. If circumstances have change and paying the final balance is going to be an issue for your family, please contact me as soon as possible.
- We will be holding a Quiz Night and Silent Auction in the middle of March (date TBC). The proceeds from this will go towards a Tour Fund that can be used to tip drivers and for other small costs that need to be borne by the whole group. Please be thinking about people you can approach to donate items for the Silent Auction - goods and vouchers from local businesses are ideal for this sort of thing. The success of the night will largely ride on the success of the auction, so please start thinking and even asking around.
- The travel agent and I have been working on options for our stop in Sydney on the way home. Unfortunately due to airport rules we are likely to have to stay in the Terminal 1 for those hours we are there. This has been recently refurbished, and looks to have opportunities for last minute shopping as per this map, but is in all other respects an airport, so not the most exciting end. If past trips are anything to go by, it might be an opportunity to catch up on some sleep!
- A minor change is currently being made to the itinerary. We are now likely to be spending one night in Birmingham, rather than two, flying out for a very brief stop in Atlanta on the evening of Thursday 20th. This will avoid the very early flight out on the morning of Friday 21st. The downside is that we will now only be staying one night in the awesome historic Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham:
The upside is that there will still be plenty of time for deep fried chicken waffles at John's City Diner - Southern soul food!
As always, any questions, please let me know - by email preferably.
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