Traveling with a purpose is the latest buzz-phrase in the travel business,  and I always get kind of a kick out of it,  because I can’t...

Just on principle,  I pretty much like ALL living history experiences.   When done well,   21st century participants can feel part of...

Here I am,  writing about beavers again.   That’s what happens when some of your best tours explore trails used by practioners of the...

From all accounts it appears that everybody today has a bucket list,  and travel is almost certainly on it.   We even tout a few of our...

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Toni Morrison, has admitted in interviews that she writes the story she would like to...

I need to get back on the trail again.   I need to pack up Fred, and my blue beads, and maps and hand-forged gills, and possibles bag,...

It’s probably a safe bet that no one pursues historical research to win prizes. Unless you are Stephan Ambrose or Bernard DeVoto,...

My grandfather was an original subscriber to American Heritage Magazine, the classy hardbound history magazine written and edited by some...

I like to think that I am an eclectic reader, with interests in baseball (especially the Negro Leagues), World War II, biographies (of...

The first time I traveled the Lewis & Clark Trail was in 1997. I was participating in a FAM (that’s travelspeak for “familiarization...

One of the hallmarks of our tours is that we offer the opportunity to walk where history happened. When you think about it, this really...

No one questions the historic significance of the sites along the Lewis & Clark Trail – the first trans-continental exploration designed...

History is rife with coincidences that are simply too amazing to make up. Although Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery spent considerable...

In case you haven’t heard yet, we are going back on the trail again this year. Actually, we follow some historic trail or other every...

In this age of social media, with millions of people posting their innermost thoughts on Twitter or Facebook, in blogs, or some other...

I should probably preface this by stating that “climbed” is a definite overstatement of what I did last August.  More accurately, I...

I have been leading modern-day explorers over the Lewis & Clark Trail more or less regularly since 1997, and as you read this I have...

When we were first developing the Lewis & Clark Trail as a Vanishing Trails Expedition I kept track of all the books I read in my...

One could argue – I would – that some of the most enjoyable days I’ve spent on tour were those covering many miles of what early settlers...

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery departed St. Charles, Missouri on May 21, 1804, to begin their expedition...