Day Eleven...I have no more rhymes...

Just returned from our 2 day trip. It was pretty exhausting. The intention was to have us experience first hand what it is like to be on a tour as guests, but we also had to observe and learn how the tour leaders and guides handled the tour.

Today we left the Red Lion Hotel in Redding which is way up in
Northern California and we traveled east to Burney Falls:

We had a picnic lunch at Lassen Volcanic National Park:

We traveled past some awesome scenic vistas and saw amazing natural wonders.

While we were traveling over the road from one site to another we took turns presenting our 5 minute tour commentary to the group.

So it took the whole two-day trip to hear commentary from all 35 students. We had about a day to research and prepare our topic and present it in a way that was interesting and relevant to the area we were traveling in. Here is a link to my commentary if you care to read it http://tinyurl.com/6gtb79. Keep in mind that this is just the jist of what I wrote, my actual commentary was improvised...a lot.

Tomorrow is a classroom day again, when we will review the trip and the topics we learned about such as luggage handling, hotel check-in and check-out, driving directions, scheduling of rest-stops and meals...these are all things for which the tour director is responsible.

Then for Saturday we have to prepare and route a similar trip to Colorado...that is, map the route and prepare the schedule.

The day after that we get to do the same for a country...in my case, Morocco.

Wow!