13-week Speaker Series: Local travelers to recount their adventures
 

Dec. 31, 2014: MetroParks and Maumee Valley Adventurers are offing the opportunity to travel vicariously around the globe this winter during 13 consecutive Saturdays in January, February, and March, 2015. The annual Travel Circle series features a different local speaker each week at 2:15 p.m. in various Metroparks locations. Admission is free. A walk or ski precedes each talk at 1 p.m.

This year, speakers will present photos and narration about their travels to Norway, Italy, Tasmania, Mongolia, Ireland, Greece, and elsewhere. Others will recount a sailing adventure aboard a clipper ship and canoeing Isle Royal.

Travel Circle is a partnership between Metroparks and Maumee Valley Adventurers, an all-volunteer non-profit organization formed two years ago by members of the former Hostelling International-Toledo Area Council. MVA advocates for low-cost travel and outdoor recreation for all people and is best known for sponsoring four annual bicycle tours, weekly walks or rides and other activities.

Travel Circle Schedule

January 3 - Viking Grand European River Cruise
Speaker: Tim Kreps
Oak Openings Lodge, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark

January 10 - Norway, From South to North
Speakers: Jan and Gary Samples
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

January 17 - Canoeing Isle Royale
Speakers: Diane DeYonker and Jim Hawkins
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

January 24 - Italia - the Beautiful
Speaker: Tatia’na Gorduno’va
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

January 31 - Hiking On South Shore of Tasmania
Speaker: Larry Lindsay
Oak Openings Lodge, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark

February 7 - Gems Of South East Asia
Speaker: Judy Pfaffenberger
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

February 14 - Cruising the Seven Seas On A Clipper Ship
Speaker: Bill Potvin
Oak Openings Lodge, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark

February 21 - Signs and Street Art In Eastern Europe –
Speaker: Dave Beckwith
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

February 28 - Mongolia, A Land Nearly Untouched
Speaker: Jennifer Christensen
Oak Openings Lodge, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark

March 7 - Transferred! Next Stop Belgium (Germany, France and Holland)

Speaker: Lynn Kujawski
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

March 14 - An Irish Adventure
Speaker: Bernie and Sally Albert
Ward Pavilion, Wildwood Preserve Metropark

March 21 - Beautiful Greek Isles
Speaker: Barbara Laird
Oak Openings Lodge, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark

March 28 - Hiking the Way Of St. James Across Northern Spain
Speaker: Tim Loge
Secor Room, Secor Metropark

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