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Subject Date Category Presenter Description
Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico Sat May 16 Slide Show David Ryan With our great climate, anytime is perfect for exploring our fantastic state. Join us on Saturday, May 16 as David Ryan shows us many of the special places that you can only find in New Mexico – places that are compelling and important enough to warrant a trip across the country to check out.

To begin, the nation has only 26 UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites. Three of them are in New Mexico. That’s more than any other state. And when you throw in our amazing landscapes, places of cultural and historical significance, and our sense of place, you have an amazing state for hiking, wandering, and exploring. It’s unlikely that any other state can match New Mexico for amazing places to explore.
E-Bike Adventuring Sat May 23 Slide Show Sandra Corso
AVAILABLE Sat May 30 AVAILABLE
Travel Bug Book Discussion Tue Jun 02 Book Group Aimee Gwynne Franklyn Tuesday June 2nd 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Murr

Every Exit Brings You Home, Naeem Murr 's first book in two decades — is a profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant 's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy.

As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack " Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he 's an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack 's traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack 's attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new to the building. The resulting tangle of love, desire, and conflict returns Jack to the violence of 1980s Gaza, where a taboo affair nearly destroyed his life.

A man of many sides—adulterer, devoted husband, fixer, community leader, liar, and the survivor of human and cosmic cruelty in both the past and the novel 's present—Jack is a paragon of both desire and hope, someone who has committed to love because the alternative is utter darkness.

A gorgeous blend of gentle comedy and poignant tragedy, of blasted hopes and one man 's indomitable dedication to the well-being of others, this is a book to love and never forget.
Financial Fridays! Fri Jun 05 SPECIAL Emily Estes Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening!

From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living.

Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer!
New Zealand an ambassadors view Sat Jun 06 Slide Show Tom Udall The first settlers of New Zealand - around 800 or 900 years ago - called the islands Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It still works
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion Thu Jun 11 SPECIAL Ken and Rochelle Insiders ' Tips for Planning a Successful Trip: Thursday, June 11th from 4:30pm-6pm

Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.

This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!

Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company.
Chad Sat Jun 13 Slide Show Scott Lindenau Tchad, land-locked by Saharan neighbors is seldom visited but its endless horizons, craggy landforms and ancient rock-art sites offer the intrepid traveler stunning rewards. This adventure takes you over the Saharan dunes into the desolate Ennedi Massif and to the remote outposts of Fada and Faya-Largeau where the Tuareg, Teda and Dazaga cultures survive.
Vietnam: Land of Contrasts Sat Jun 20 Slide Show Charryl Berger
Traveling the 1837 Ioway Map Sat Jun 27 Slide Show Bill Green
Financial Fridays! Fri Jul 03 SPECIAL Emily Estes Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening!

From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living.

Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer!
NO SHOW 4TH OF JULY Sat Jul 04 CANCELED NO SHOW
Travel Bug Book Discussion Tue Jul 07 Book Group Aimee Gwynne Franklyn Tuesday July 7th 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an intimate chronicle, "full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence " (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist 's unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. "Heart-smashed " by Mary 's death, yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed " by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn 't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her. " She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as "my shelter and my storm ".
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion Thu Jul 09 SPECIAL Rochelle Gerratt This month 's meeting will focus on Mexico: beaches, culture, and crafts.
4:30-6pm

Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.

This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!

Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company.
Bicycle Tour Vietnam Sat Jul 11 Slide Show Knox Kinlaw
Oman Sat Jul 18 Slide Show Rebekah Kanter
From Whence the Ukrainians? Sat Jul 25 Slide Show Dennis Reinhartz One of the principal justifications given by Putin for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now is in its fifth year, is that Ukrainians are “wayward” Russians manipulated by “fascists,” and that he is trying to liberate them and bring them home into the historic Russian nation. But are they really? To answer this question, this presentation will examine the evolution of the Ukrainians, and by necessity that of the Russians, over the last millennium. Ultimately, it will be shown that the Ukrainians are not Russians, wayward or otherwise, that Putin’s motivations for the invasion are more convoluted. This talk will be illustrated with numerous period and contemporary images, maps, and other graphics.
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 01 AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 08 AVAILABLE
Tunisia Sat Aug 15 Slide Show Rebekah Kanter
Electric Vehicle Traveling Sat Aug 22 Slide Show Athena Christodoulou
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 29 AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE Sat Sep 05 AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE Sat Sep 12 AVAILABLE
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Subject Date    Description
Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico Sat May 16 With our great climate, anytime is perfect for exploring our fantastic state. Join us on Saturday, May 16 as David Ryan shows us many of the special places that you can only find in New Mexico – places that are compelling and important enough to warrant a trip across the country to check out.

To begin, the nation has only 26 UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites. Three of them are in New Mexico. That’s more than any other state. And when you throw in our amazing landscapes, places of cultural and historical significance, and our sense of place, you have an amazing state for hiking, wandering, and exploring. It’s unlikely that any other state can match New Mexico for amazing places to explore.
E-Bike Adventuring Sat May 23
AVAILABLE Sat May 30
Travel Bug Book Discussion Tue Jun 02 Tuesday June 2nd 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Murr

Every Exit Brings You Home, Naeem Murr 's first book in two decades — is a profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant 's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy.

As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack " Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he 's an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack 's traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack 's attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new to the building. The resulting tangle of love, desire, and conflict returns Jack to the violence of 1980s Gaza, where a taboo affair nearly destroyed his life.

A man of many sides—adulterer, devoted husband, fixer, community leader, liar, and the survivor of human and cosmic cruelty in both the past and the novel 's present—Jack is a paragon of both desire and hope, someone who has committed to love because the alternative is utter darkness.

A gorgeous blend of gentle comedy and poignant tragedy, of blasted hopes and one man 's indomitable dedication to the well-being of others, this is a book to love and never forget.
Financial Fridays! Fri Jun 05 Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening!

From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living.

Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer!
New Zealand an ambassadors view Sat Jun 06 The first settlers of New Zealand - around 800 or 900 years ago - called the islands Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It still works
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion Thu Jun 11 Insiders ' Tips for Planning a Successful Trip: Thursday, June 11th from 4:30pm-6pm

Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.

This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!

Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company.
Chad Sat Jun 13 Tchad, land-locked by Saharan neighbors is seldom visited but its endless horizons, craggy landforms and ancient rock-art sites offer the intrepid traveler stunning rewards. This adventure takes you over the Saharan dunes into the desolate Ennedi Massif and to the remote outposts of Fada and Faya-Largeau where the Tuareg, Teda and Dazaga cultures survive.
Vietnam: Land of Contrasts Sat Jun 20
Traveling the 1837 Ioway Map Sat Jun 27
Financial Fridays! Fri Jul 03 Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening!

From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living.

Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer!
NO SHOW 4TH OF JULY Sat Jul 04
Travel Bug Book Discussion Tue Jul 07 Tuesday July 7th 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an intimate chronicle, "full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence " (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist 's unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. "Heart-smashed " by Mary 's death, yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed " by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn 't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her. " She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as "my shelter and my storm ".
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion Thu Jul 09 This month 's meeting will focus on Mexico: beaches, culture, and crafts.
4:30-6pm

Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.

This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!

Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company.
Bicycle Tour Vietnam Sat Jul 11
Oman Sat Jul 18
From Whence the Ukrainians? Sat Jul 25 One of the principal justifications given by Putin for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now is in its fifth year, is that Ukrainians are “wayward” Russians manipulated by “fascists,” and that he is trying to liberate them and bring them home into the historic Russian nation. But are they really? To answer this question, this presentation will examine the evolution of the Ukrainians, and by necessity that of the Russians, over the last millennium. Ultimately, it will be shown that the Ukrainians are not Russians, wayward or otherwise, that Putin’s motivations for the invasion are more convoluted. This talk will be illustrated with numerous period and contemporary images, maps, and other graphics.
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 01
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 08
Tunisia Sat Aug 15
Electric Vehicle Traveling Sat Aug 22
AVAILABLE Sat Aug 29
AVAILABLE Sat Sep 05
AVAILABLE Sat Sep 12
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Tales of the South Pacific

Ken Collins

Saturday May 9, 2026 at 5pm


From Papeete, Tahiti to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops along the way in French Polynesia, American Samoa, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the North Island of New Zealand.

At every island they had an opportunity to explore on their own, book a shore excursion or snorkeling expedition. Once the cruise was over, they rented a car for a week and explored some of New Zealand's spectacular national parks that offer fabulous hiking, the famous glow-worm caves, and the Art Deco town of Napier.
   

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