Francis Custom Tours Inc.

01/06/2025

Good morning travelers! I just wanted to remind you that our 2025 Brochure is available online on our website, franciscustomtours.com. The paper copy should be mailed out this week. We appreciate you all so much!

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01/01/2025

We look forward to a new year of adventure, making memories, and fun!

12/25/2024

12/17/2024

Our 2025 Brochure is now available on our website, franciscustomtours.com.
The printed copy should be in mailboxes by the end of the month.

We will be in the office this week. Our office will closed December 21 through January 1st for Christmas and New Year's.
We will check the mail, e-mails, and voice mails during the holiday and will respond to those when we get back in the office.

We thank you for your business and friendship! Happy Traveling!

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12/13/2024

Christmas in Branson! Today we enjoyed 2 shows, the Sanders Family Christmas at the Little Opry Theater and The Miracle of Christmas at Sight and Sound. We ended our day with a drive through Christmas light display.

12/12/2024

Christmas in Branson! We enjoyed dinner and shopping at the Pickin Porch Grill in the Branson Craft Mall. Then we saw The Duttons, a great show by a super talented family!

12/09/2024

Christmas in Dallas and Plano, Texas!
We visited the Dallas Arboretum to see the beautiful gardens and the 12 Days of Christmas displays. Then we stopped by the George W. Bush Presidential Center and ended our day with a performance of The Gift of Christmas at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

12/05/2024

Hello Travelers! We are in the final stages of getting the 2025 brochure into your hands and on our website. Listed below are two of our trips that you can call and sign up for now. We will make an announcement when the complete brochure is available online. We appreciate you all so much and look forward to a new year of travel adventures!

11/23/2024

We began our day in Princeton, Kentucky touring the Adsmore Museum. The Victorian home and everything inside belonged to the wealthy Smith-Garrett family. We had a delicious lunch at Adams Breezy Hill Farm in Princeton before traveling on to the Golden Pond Visitors Center in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. We drove through the Elk and Bison Prairie nearby. Dinner was at the Wake Club at the Lighthouse Landing Marina in Grand Rivers. We ended our day at the Badgett Playhouse with a Down Home Country Christmas show.

11/22/2024

Welcome to Western Kentucky! We spent our day exploring Paducah! Our first stop was at the Inland Waterways Museum, learning about the history and importance of the Ohio River to the area. Our guide, Jim McIlroy, led us on a tour of the Flood Wall Murals- wonderful paintings of the history and important events of Paducah. We also visited the National Quilt Museum to see the exquisite quilt creations.

10/16/2024

Dinner last night was in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The rooms in Patti's 1880's Settlement were all decorated for Christmas (with a little Fall thrown in!). The meal and atmosphere were amazing!

10/12/2024

Spectacular scenery in New Hampshire today! We stopped at the White Mountain Visitor Center, rode the Loon Mountain Gondola, and visited Franconia Notch State Park. We ended our day with dinner at the Covered Bridge Farm Table in Campton. We start our journey back to Arkansas tomorrow.

10/12/2024

Before leaving Vermont, we stopped at Quechee Gorge. It is the deepest gorge in the state, measuring 165 feet deep. Then Hello New Hampshire! We stopped for lunch in Meredith, then took a chilly but beautiful cruise on Squam Lake. Squam Lake was the setting for the movie, On Golden Pond. We rounded out our day on the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, enjoying a turkey dinner and Lake Winnipesaukee.

10/11/2024

Lots of beautiful Fall color as we traveled to Barre and Montpelier, Vermont. In Barre we visited the Rock of Ages granite quarry and drove through the Hope Cemetery to see some amazing granite headstones. In Montpelier we spent time at the Vermont State Capitol and Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks. Our day ended with dinner at the Foundry in Killington.

10/10/2024

We saw some beautiful fall colors as we traveled from Cooperstown to Killington, Vermont. Before arriving at the Killington Grand Hotel, we had lunch at the Waybury Inn in Middlebury. The Waybury Inn was used for the exterior scenes of the Bob Newhart Show (it was painted white for the TV show). After lunch we saw the Pulp Mill Covered Bridge and we made a stop at Danforth Pewter to see artisans at work. Our last stop was the Blue Ledge Farm to see their goat dairy farm and taste some artisan cheeses.

10/09/2024

Fall in the Northeast- Cooperstown, New York. We visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame, had lunch at the Otesaga Hotel, visited the Fenimore Art Museum, and ended our day at the Fly Creek Cider Mill.