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we told the group she was a widow. By pointing down, she Kyoto!) We have added a third traveler and even our
only meant that her husband was downstairs! brothers and wives have tagged along.

On our pre-trip adventure to Laos, we were visiting a We are very excited to resume exploring Patagonia in 2022.
school outside Luang Prabang. Our van was met by neatly Thank you for providing us with the opportunities to see
dressed children, each of us assigned a child with a the world!
bouquet of wildflowers who took our hand and led us to the
school room. Each child was asked what he or she wanted Sandy Renninger
to be when they grew up. Answers such as soldier, nurse, 7-time traveler
teacher, and farmer went around the room. My special Maple Shade, NJ
child, a girl with huge dark eyes, looked at me and said, “I
want to be a tourist like this lady.” My heart melted.

Nancy & Rick Harwood
13-time travelers
East Lyme, CT

From the zoo to the wild
I met my traveling buddy [Anita Duke, 8-time traveler
from Philadelphia, PA] in 2013 when our docent organiza-
tion at the Philadelphia Zoo was asked to “socialize goats.”
(The goats were part of the old Children’s Zoo and the
new one was opening soon.) As we brushed and petted
the goats, Anita and I started talking about our dreams of
traveling. We both have mates who do not share the same
excitement for exploration, We’re blushing
and our love for animals had us My wife and I just returned from the first O.A.T. group to
dreaming of seeing some in the visit Sicily since the pandemic began.
wild.
It was spectacular! The O.A.T. team couldn’t have been
What has transpired over the more professional, helpful and fun. Everything was well
past eight years has been planned and well executed.
amazing! Trips to
Costa Rica, Africa, The home-hosted visit and the Day in the Life were the best
Galápagos, India, we’ve experienced in our 21 trips.
New Zealand, The learning and discovery events were educational and
Iceland, and Japan fun. We met so many nice people from musicians to artists,
have all been mind- farmers, and just regular folks.
altering in the way
we can connect Well done O.A.T. WELL DONE!
with our fellow Chet & Judy Marshall
zoo volunteers 21-time travelers
and guests. (Even Bensalem, PA
in Japan we took
a side trip on our
own to see the Snow
Monkeys outside of

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