Travel Bug Events

Events are at 5 pm unless specified otherwise

Subject	Date	Category	Presenter	Description
Oman	Sat Jul 18	Slide Show	Rebekah Kanter	Travels off the beaten path in Oman, history, city sites, mountain wadis, landscapes, Mountain View 's, flora and fauna
Gen X/Millennial book club	Wed Jul 22	Book Group	Jeff	The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
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.
Japan Hot Springs	Sat Aug 01	Slide Show	Matias Ceccarelli
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Aug 04	Book Group	Aimee Gwynne Franklyn	The Things We Never Say By Elizabeth Strout 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout 's new novel, "The Things We Never Say ", tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher 's life-a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad-at himself and the people around him-and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?
Sprint 2026 MiNneapolis	Sat Aug 08	Slide Show	Evan Frost	During the cold Minnesota winter, the Trump administration unleashed an unprecedented use of force upon the Twin Cities called Operation Metro Surge. In January, Santa Fe-based photojournalist Evan Frost journeyed home with his cameras to capture the stories of communities rallying to protect their neighbors as thousands of federal agents occupied the cities. He will show images made on assignment for NPR and work created by his fellow photojournalists in Minneapolis while facilitating conversation about documenting immigration enforcement in present day U.S.A. Evan is a photojournalist, EMT, and SFCC nursing student. He was a staff photographer at Minnesota Public Radio News from 2016-2021 and has lived in Santa Fe since 2023. He currently works at the Santa Fe Crisis Triage Center and leads student travel to Fiji, Mexico, and Europe in his spare time.
NO SLIDESHOW	Sat Aug 15	CANCELED	No Event	no event due to Indian Market-see you next week! (Tunisia show moved to October 17th)
Electric Vehicle Traveling	Sat Aug 22	Slide Show	Athena Christodoulou
Costar Rica Wildlife & Zip Lines	Sat Aug 29	Slide Show	Judy Costlow
Zozobra Fiesta Weekend	Sat Sep 05	SPECIAL
Before It Was Called Santa Fe Style	Sat Sep 12	Slide Show	Chuck Wolfe	Santa Fe is often described in visual shorthand: adobe or stucco walls, muted earth colors, and "Santa Fe Style. " But the City 's identity was taking shape long before the style gained a name. Drawing on his recent Santa Fe New Mexican essay, author, urbanist, and photographer Charles R. Wolfe will explore the deeper sources of a city 's character—in the case from the landscape and Indigenous and Hispanic traditions to the Salinas Pueblo Missions, streets, acequias, public life, and patterns of adaptation. Using ideas and images from his three books—Urbanism Without Effort, Seeing the Better City and Sustaining a City 's Culture and Character—Wolfe will also show how to more generally read the "DNA " of cities: the inherited qualities, everyday practices and visual clues that make a place distinctive. He will also summarize his "Leveraging Place " approach, asking how Santa Fe can welcome change while preserving continuity, cultural memory and the qualities that make it more than a marketable style.
NM Wild's Passport to NM's Rivers	Fri Sep 18	Slide Show	Bjorn Fredrickson
National Parks	Sat Sep 19	Slide Show	Antonio Lopez
Palau	Sat Sep 26	Slide Show	Stephanie Gardner
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 03	AVAILABLE
Ethiopia	Sat Oct 10	Slide Show	Scott Lindenau
Tunisia	Sat Oct 17	Slide Show	Rebekah Kanter	rescheduled from 8/15
Cinema Nomad Watch Party - Philippines	Fri Oct 23	SPECIAL	Stephanie Gardner	Cinema Nomad episode watch party and talk by film maker Stephanie Gardner 2 hours
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 24	AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 31	AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE	Sat Nov 07	AVAILABLE
An Art Tour of Rome, Part II	Sat Nov 14	Slide Show	Ken Collins	This program will be a continuation of one given in late 2023. This presentation is based on a visit to Rome made in February of this year, and includes all new prime locations, including The Vatican Museums, the Galleria Borghese, the Baths of Caracalla, the Ara Pacis, Palazzo Barberini and Hadrian 's Mausoleum (Castelo Sant ' Angelo), along with countless churches, each of which houses amazing treasures.. Rome is a seemingly endless cornucopia of historical and artistic wonders from all eras of Western civilization, so it is possible to keep finding major new treasures to experience. February continues to be an excellent month to visit Rome - no major holidays, off-season, and surprisingly pleasant weather with early blooming trees, bulbs blooming and the first shrubs bursting into bright color, along with outdoor cafés bustling with life.
AVAILABLE	Sat Nov 21	AVAILABLE

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Subject	Date	Description
Oman	Sat Jul 18	Travels off the beaten path in Oman, history, city sites, mountain wadis, landscapes, Mountain View 's, flora and fauna
Gen X/Millennial book club	Wed Jul 22	The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
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.
Japan Hot Springs	Sat Aug 01
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Aug 04	The Things We Never Say By Elizabeth Strout 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout 's new novel, "The Things We Never Say ", tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher 's life-a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad-at himself and the people around him-and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?
Sprint 2026 MiNneapolis	Sat Aug 08	During the cold Minnesota winter, the Trump administration unleashed an unprecedented use of force upon the Twin Cities called Operation Metro Surge. In January, Santa Fe-based photojournalist Evan Frost journeyed home with his cameras to capture the stories of communities rallying to protect their neighbors as thousands of federal agents occupied the cities. He will show images made on assignment for NPR and work created by his fellow photojournalists in Minneapolis while facilitating conversation about documenting immigration enforcement in present day U.S.A. Evan is a photojournalist, EMT, and SFCC nursing student. He was a staff photographer at Minnesota Public Radio News from 2016-2021 and has lived in Santa Fe since 2023. He currently works at the Santa Fe Crisis Triage Center and leads student travel to Fiji, Mexico, and Europe in his spare time.
NO SLIDESHOW	Sat Aug 15	no event due to Indian Market-see you next week! (Tunisia show moved to October 17th)
Electric Vehicle Traveling	Sat Aug 22
Costar Rica Wildlife & Zip Lines	Sat Aug 29
Zozobra Fiesta Weekend	Sat Sep 05
Before It Was Called Santa Fe Style	Sat Sep 12	Santa Fe is often described in visual shorthand: adobe or stucco walls, muted earth colors, and "Santa Fe Style. " But the City 's identity was taking shape long before the style gained a name. Drawing on his recent Santa Fe New Mexican essay, author, urbanist, and photographer Charles R. Wolfe will explore the deeper sources of a city 's character—in the case from the landscape and Indigenous and Hispanic traditions to the Salinas Pueblo Missions, streets, acequias, public life, and patterns of adaptation. Using ideas and images from his three books—Urbanism Without Effort, Seeing the Better City and Sustaining a City 's Culture and Character—Wolfe will also show how to more generally read the "DNA " of cities: the inherited qualities, everyday practices and visual clues that make a place distinctive. He will also summarize his "Leveraging Place " approach, asking how Santa Fe can welcome change while preserving continuity, cultural memory and the qualities that make it more than a marketable style.
NM Wild's Passport to NM's Rivers	Fri Sep 18
National Parks	Sat Sep 19
Palau	Sat Sep 26
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 03
Ethiopia	Sat Oct 10
Tunisia	Sat Oct 17	rescheduled from 8/15
Cinema Nomad Watch Party - Philippines	Fri Oct 23	Cinema Nomad episode watch party and talk by film maker Stephanie Gardner 2 hours
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 24
AVAILABLE	Sat Oct 31
AVAILABLE	Sat Nov 07
An Art Tour of Rome, Part II	Sat Nov 14	This program will be a continuation of one given in late 2023. This presentation is based on a visit to Rome made in February of this year, and includes all new prime locations, including The Vatican Museums, the Galleria Borghese, the Baths of Caracalla, the Ara Pacis, Palazzo Barberini and Hadrian 's Mausoleum (Castelo Sant ' Angelo), along with countless churches, each of which houses amazing treasures.. Rome is a seemingly endless cornucopia of historical and artistic wonders from all eras of Western civilization, so it is possible to keep finding major new treasures to experience. February continues to be an excellent month to visit Rome - no major holidays, off-season, and surprisingly pleasant weather with early blooming trees, bulbs blooming and the first shrubs bursting into bright color, along with outdoor cafés bustling with life.
AVAILABLE	Sat Nov 21

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