| Subject | Date | Category | Presenter | Description |
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| Spanish |
Wed Jan 14 | Spanish | Clara | Spanish 1A Wednesdays, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm January 14 - March 11, 2026 in person at The Travel Bug. There will not be class on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Course fee: $240 for the full eight-week course. Payment may be made to Clara by Zelle, cash, or check at the first class meeting. For questions or more information, please contact Clara at (505) 310-3443 or via email clr.evans@gmail.com This dynamic and interactive course is designed to help you build real-world communication skills in Spanish from day one. Through conversational practice, cultural insights, and practical vocabulary, you will learn to start, sustain, and enjoy everyday conversations using casual greetings, idomatic expressions, and essential structures. |
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Wed Jan 14 | Spanish | Clara | Spanish 1B (Latin Ameri) Wednesdays, 4:00 pm –5:15 p.m. Class Details: • Schedule: Wednesdays, 4:00 pm –5:15 p.m., Jan 14 - Mar 11, 2026 • Location: In person at the Travel Bug • Class Size: Limited to 4–9 students for personalized instruction • Cost: $240 for the full eight-week course Please note that Clara will send you a list of vocabulary and verbs ahead of time, along with a brief lesson plan for each class. Kindly print the lesson plan and bring it with you to class. Payment is accepted through Zelle, cash, or check at the first session. For questions, feel free to reach out to Clara directly via email clr.evans@gmail.com or phone (505) 310-3443. Thank you, and we look forward to learning Spanish with you! This class is a continuation of the second part of Spanish 1A. |
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Wed Jan 14 | Spanish | Clara | Spanish Pronunciation Wednesdays 1:00 to 2:15 pm 6 classes For questions or to sign up, please contact Clara at: (505) 310-3443 clr.evans@gmail.com Do you have some experience with Spanish and want to speak with greater clarity and confidence? Join our “Improve Your Spanish Pronunciation” class and learn to pronounce Spanish more naturally and fluently. The cost is $205 for the full course. The class size is limited (minimum 4, maximum 9 students) to ensure personalized attention and guided practice. This course is designed for adult learners who already have some knowledge of Spanish and wish to refine the clarity, accuracy, and musicality of their spoken language. Through a combination of guided practice, listening discrimination, targeted drills, and interactive activities, you will learn to pronounce Spanish with greater ease and confidence. |
| GenXMillennial Bookclub | Wed Jan 14 | SPECIAL | Jeff Grossman | The Millennial Gen-X Book Club is a once-a-month fiction book club for anyone in those generations. We skew towards the queer, the tender, and the strange. If you are interested in joining us, drop by on the night of, or direct your interest to Jeff through themillennialgenxbookclub@gmail.com January Book Selection: The End of Drum Time Hanna Pylvainen February Book Selection: |
| A Year in the Outback | Sat Jan 17 | Slide Show | Bill Earl | Have you wondered what the Australian Outback is really like. This is your chance to get a taste. Bill decided to tour and camp through a lot of Australia. He purchased a Land Cruiser and spent almost a year touring and camping. From the cities and coast of New South Wales and Queensland to the most isolated parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This slide show will describe the “process”…Purchasing the car, outfitting, and touring. We’ll cover the how and why of camping and overlanding Australia. We’ll visit a bit of the Australian cities but focus on the beauty and isolation of the Outback. |
| Solo Traveling While Old | Sat Jan 24 | Slide Show | Linda Durham | Linda Durham, writer and storyteller. At 83, she has traveled alone to scores of countries for more than sixty years. Recent solo journeys include Bulgaria, Poland/Ukraine, and Russia, including a month long journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. At 70, she traveled around the world in 70 days. Drawing on decades of experience, Durham shares stories of continued adventure, the kindness of strangers, and the thrill of discovery that comes with traveling alone at any age. She is the author of Still Moving, The Trans-Siberian Railway Journey, and the forthcoming Naked Women.recent solo travels to Bulgaria, Turkey, Ukraine |
| Guatemala During the High Holidays | Sat Jan 31 | Slide Show | Jack Shlachter | It 's Mayan, Not Yours! Leading Congregation Adat Israel, in Guatemala City for the Jewish High Holidays Rabbi Jack Shlachter is a physicist and ordained rabbi whose long career at Los Alamos National Laboratory provided him with the luxury of galavanting around the world to lead small congregations for the Jewish High Holidays. His travels have taken him to Vienna, Beijing, Warsaw, Bangkok, and most recently, Guatemala City. When home in New Mexico, Rabbi Jack serves as rabbi for the Los Alamos Jewish Center as well as congregation HaMakom in Santa Fe. The Jewish community of Guatemala is small by world standards; Jewish population for the entire country of 18 million people is estimated to be under 1000 or a mere 0.006%. Rabbi Jack will describe his experiences leading a small, non-Orthodox congregation in Guatemala City for the Jewish High Holidays in 2025 as well as a first-time traveler 's impressions of Guatemala. |
| Travel Bug Book Discussion | Tue Feb 03 | Book Group | Aimee Gwynne Franklyn | Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K 's invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka 's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever. Set during the early years of Sri Lanka 's three-decade civil war, Brotherless Night is a heartrending portrait of one woman 's moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home. |
| Bali | Sat Feb 07 | Slide Show | Ellen Kemper | "Around Bali " - Volunteering, sightseeing, and swimming around Bali. Six weeks and twelve accommodations later, Ellen Kemper traveled the island of Bali enjoying its culture, landscape, and seas. |
| Cruising the Bottom of South America | Sat Feb 14 | Slide Show | Marion DuBeau | For our honeymoon we decided to see a part of the world we had never been to before. South America had the right combination of romance and remoteness so we chose a cruise that spans the bottom of South America from Valparaiso Chile to the Magellan Strait and ends in Buenos Aires with many stops in between. |
| Algeria | Sat Feb 21 | Slide Show | Scott Lindenau | |
| Italian |
Thu Feb 26 | Italian | Elisabetta | Italian Beginners 1(a) Thursdays at 12:00-1:15 Dates: Feb 26 Mar 5,12,19,26 Apr 2 Classes will meet for 6 weeks at the Travel Bug for 1 hour and 15 minutes each time. 4 to 8 students max. The focus is on learning to speak and comprehend. A "Pimsleur " subscription will be required (https://www.pimsleur.com/). Cost: $230. Payment through check, PayPal, Venmo (non-refundable after the class has started). Please contact Elisabetta for any questions and to assess which class will be the best fit for you. Other non-Pimsleur-based classes also offered. Please inquire: 505-577-1014 or e.mazzantini1@gmail.com |
| Palestinian Olive Harvest | Sat Feb 28 | Slide Show | Dustin Weinreb | The annual olive harvest is one of the most important economic and cultural events for Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank. However, it is frequently impeded by the efforts of violent settlers and soldiers. Dustin Weinreb spent a month with the organization the Center for Jewish Non-Violence working alongside farmers in the village of Burin to harvest olives and support Palestinian efforts to remain on their land. He will present his experience and detail the salient issues people in the West Bank are facing. Dustin Weinreb has a B.A. in religious studies from Reed College where he studied modern Islamic intellectual history and Arabic. He has extensive experience in the Middle East having spent months-long stints in Morocco, Lebanon, and Israel-Palestine. Prior to this visit to the West Bank, he spent three months with CJNV in Masafer Yatta, a collection of West Bank villages chronicled in the Oscar winning film, "No Other Land. " He works as a wildland firefighter across the American West, most recently as a member of the Geronimo Interagency Hotshot Crew. |
| Origins of Florence | Sat Mar 07 | Slide Show | Linda Higgins | The Origins of Florence The Etruscans to the Romans Florence, the glorious Renaissance City. Everywhere you look you see the evidence of her beautiful artistic masterpieces that reflect this extraordinary era. But as you walk the cobble stone streets there is a history of her origins directly beneath your feet. A past that goes back thousands of years to the Mysterious Etruscans whose town Fiesole overlooks Florence and whose marketplace was located on the banks of the River Arno in Florence. A history that tells how the Romans established their city of Florentia in 59 BC to reward the Roman soldiers who fought with Julius Caesar. A Roman city with a forum for the religious and government functions, an amphitheater for “sports”, a theater for music and plays and, of course, baths and aqueducts to bring clean water from the surrounding countryside. Together we will explore the very foundations on which this Beautiful City of Art was built. |
| On the Road with On the Road | Sat Mar 14 | Slide Show | Carl Moore | Robert Frank 's The Americans redefined photography in 1959 and inspired Carl Moore to hit the road with Jack Kerouac 's On the Road. Like Frank, Moore sought to reveal America to Americans—capturing the landscapes, faces, and fleeting moments that echo Kerouac 's metaphorical vision. From Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to a cross-country drive with his son from Santa Fe to New England, Moore, with his Nikon in hand, retraces Sal Paradise 's footsteps. The result is a vivid, contemporary counterpart to Kerouac 's masterpiece—where the photographs themselves feel restless, alive, and haunted by the same hunger for the open road. |
| Spanish |
Tue Mar 17 | Spanish | Fabiana | Spanish Intermediate Tuesdays 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. 8 classes on Tuesdays from 1:00-3:30 pm $60 per a 2 hrs. class. Contact Fabiana to sign up or for more info: 505-919-8599 faradunsk@yahoo.com |
| Cuzco Machu Picchu and beyond | Sat Mar 21 | Slide Show | Michael Matousek | Cusco & Machu Picchu: More Than a Ruin—A Living World Machu Picchu is one of the most famous places on Earth, yet few travelers truly understand what they are seeing—or why it continues to move people so deeply. In this illustrated talk, veteran guide and Peru specialist Michael Matousek takes you beyond the postcard views to explore Cusco and Machu Picchu as living, connected places shaped by history, engineering, culture, and landscape. This talk is ideal for curious travelers who want deeper context, not just bucket-list photos—and who believe great travel begins with understanding. |
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| Tales of the South Pacific | Sat May 09 | Slide Show | Ken Collins | cruise through south pacific ending in new zealand |
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