Odyssey Tours a div of Bek, Inc.

03/28/2019

Odyssey Tours: BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES # INTELLECTUAL CONTENT ADVENTURES
odytours.net - 208-791-8721 - [email protected]

-Looking for a UNIQUE vacation? Don't stay at home and let another summer pass you by. Solos are always welcome! Strangers quickly become family. These tours change lives!

-DAY THREE - EIGHT: Outfitted and guided, you will travel through the largest wilderness area in the lower 48 states. Sunny days, large white beaches, deep river pools. Adjacent to two more wilderness areas, your chance to see wildlife is very high, especially if you stay in your water vessel. Luxury camping, gourmet meals, and side-hill hot springs. Join the FUN down North America's 2nd deepest river canyon. Yes, even deeper than the Grand Canyon.

-MID-TOUR: Travel through a protected wilderness area: Only a few groups are allowed to depart each day awarded via a permit and lottery system. See what many will never see: LEWIS & CLARK, AND THE RIVER OF NO RETURN WILDERNESS TOUR. Your ten-day tour departs July 8th from Bozeman Montana. You'll visit some of the most beautiful remote landscapes Montana and Idaho have to offer. Floating the River of Return begins on your third day- July 10th, after spending an evening with the Lemhi-Shoshone, who were instrumental in assisting Lewis & Clark over the mountains. Come join the FUN!

03/26/2019

03/15/2019

03/12/2019

Beautiful Landscapes # Historical Content # Fun Adventures Lewis & Clark, and the River of No Return Wilderness Tour.
This Summer: July 08-17 ~ odytours.net
DAY ONE & TWO: Chasing L&C in Montana. Imagine your first-night on top of a hill watching premier rivers -the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin meandering circuitously before eventually departing united as the Missouri River. You look off into the distance towards the Jefferson River, to a level plain where the Corps camped and Sacajawea (Sacagawea) recognized as the area she had been abducted from during a Minataree raid and carried away to North Dakota. (Her girlfriend escaped en route and fled home.) Tomorrow you will stand at Fortunate Camp where they reunited. Typically unemotional, Lewis noted, "emotions were quite affecting." Looking at the tall grasses and big beaver ponds, you envision 1808, when members John Potts and John Colter returned with the Missouri Fur Company. Potts lost his life and Colter was stripped naked by the Blackfeet and told to run. George Drewyer also lost his life here two more years later in 1810, again at the hands of the Blackfeet. You gather in a circle of chairs near the sounds of the Jefferson River as Colter returns from the past to explain to you his great escape. Tonight as the sun sets and the moon rises Allen Pinkham great, great, grandnephew of Chief Joseph, and descendant of Red Bear (mentioned in the Journals) will recite to you the Creation Story of the Nez Perce. On your last tour day, we'll take you to its birthmark "the Heart of the Monster." Learn more by visiting our website, or come join us on location - lots more fun!
ODY says, "Make memories happen!"
Don't stay home this summer! A very UNIQUE RARE tour.

10/24/2018

Can't wait to see this. Many of my friends were involved in its creation. Then next July 7, 2019, Odyssey's summer tour - Lewis & Clark, and the River of No Return begins by taking you inside the L&C journals on location in Sacajawea's homeland near Dillon, MT, over Lemhi Pass, and on into Salmon Idaho where you will enjoy an evening with the Lemhi-Shoshone. You will hear music by a descendant of Chief Tendoy, learn about the Lemhi-Shoshone people (Sacajawea's home tribe) and enjoy a traditional dinner, music, and dancing prepared by descendants of Chief Camehwait (Sacajawea's brother). There are many spellings and pronunciations for her name. Sacajawea is how the people of Idaho like to see and pronounce her name. Many scholars of the L&C journals believe it was pronounced Sa-ca-ga-wea. Lewis wrote this in his journal. I lean towards the prior. - well because I am from Idaho, my kids went to Sacajawea schools, and our friend Rose Anne Abrahamson (who teaches 7 languages) has a pretty convincing argument on the pronunciation of her great aunt's name. The fun and the debates continue. ... then on to a six-day river float into the River of No Return Wilderness Area, upon take-out you arrive Nez Perce country and explore the L&C journals on location with our Nez Perce gentleman friend Allen Pinkham (a descendant of Red Bear in the L&C journals). It is great to read the stories on location and also hear the Native American oral history handed down also. Too much fun! We want all of you to come! Please let me know if you have an interest. Hoping to complete ALL the details this week. In the meantime ~ excited to watch this film! ~ enjoy!

It is my great pleasure and humbled joy to present to you one of the most spectacular concept-art pieces I have ever seen. To have a beautiful depiction, such as this, representing Sacajawea to the world, is all I've ever hoped for. Marcia K Moore has taken the story of Sacajawea and captured the essence of the journey in one powerfully emotional vision.

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the official poster of SACAJAWEA, The Windcatcher. Please tell us how you feel about it and share it with your friends! Then visit our new website and fill out the contact form to be added to our exclusive list. We want to keep you updated on everything we're doing because things are absolutely heating up! Get involved, stay connected and be a part of this journey with us. This is going to be the ride of a lifetime! ONWARD!

OUR NEW WEBSITE:
https://www.sacajaweathemovie.com/

09/24/2018

Welcome Home Lewis & Clark, and the Corps of Discovery!
~ Mark your dates for the next Lewis & Clark Odyssey Tour: July 6-16, 2019. It will be a guided active adventure tour with 5 1/2 days in the largest wilderness area in the lower 48, floating the Main Salmon River. There will be two days of L&C on both ends, including finding a source of the Missouri River (Atlantic drainage flowing E) and a source of the Columbia (Pacific drainage flowing W) at the continental divide and letting the two drinks of water knit together in our bellies, like Lewis & McNeal. ~Tour information and new website coming soon. Stay tuned! We will keep you posted.

07/19/2018

Off to get in position for the launch of another wonderful trip with 32 excited adventurers - Wish us smooth sails and trails! .. And so it begins.

07/19/2018

05/26/2018

In 1968, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Trails System Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

05/09/2018

Worth repeating. ~ so good!

photo taken during Odyssey Tours Jefferson in Virginia Tour 2009

01/09/2018

Just a quick note to alert you to the American Experience documentary "Into the Amazon" that airs this week, January 9th, 10th and 11th on PBS, about Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt. It has our very own friend, and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson onboard as one of their premier "talking heads". Clay mentioned he interviewed for it in Chicago two years ago and one never knows what gets included and what winds up on the cutting room floor. If you know Clay's scholarship like we do, this "no doubt" will be grand! Hope you enjoy~ Here is a peek at one of the trailers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/into-the-amazon/

09/27/2017

Love this! ... so great for children, and probably the teachers too!

08/12/2017

Step back in time and experience Central Montana's three river ferries as you cross the Missouri River. Ferries are located at Carter, Virgelle and north of ...

04/26/2017

Great show! Great description on how our government is set up to govern itself too. Fun while enlightening. Hope you enjoy!

"The constitution ... is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
— Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819

04/19/2017

Sounds like wonderful medicine to me! Sign up for our next mountain trek in July. [email protected]

04/04/2017

Join us July 18-27 for our Classic L&C Summer Tour, (hands down everyone's favorite!) You'll canoe through the White Cliff section of the Missouri River in Montana and hike the remote trails of the Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho. Fully catered, outfitted and Tons of FUN!
Do come! Now listen to the TJHR radio program below. It too is FUN, entertaining, and educational! A great way to learn about our history!
Hope you enjoy~
Please contact us for specifics on future tours and retreats: [email protected] or call/text 208-791-8721

from the album 2017

04/04/2017

Join us July 18-27 for our annual L&C Summer Tour canoeing down the Missouri River of Montana and hiking the L&C Trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. Tons of FUN! Do come! Contact us: [email protected]

The Lewis & Clark trail begins at Monticello and ends at the mouth of the Columbia. But the best part of the whole transcontinental trail lies between the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers.

03/29/2017

Pretty cool!

Just had to share this Monticello-inspired entry by Wiley|Wilson for Canstruction Lynchburg, a city-based competition in which design industry professionals compete building structures made out of full cans of food that go to feed the hungry. The Lynchburg competition will benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

03/23/2017

As spring comes, I start to think of the fabulous week of the Lewis & Clark Cultural Tour

This is the trip that never gets old. It will be Clay's 12th time up the Wendover Death March (which proves that anyone can do it). We'll spend three days…

03/15/2017

Always FUN!! Try to come! Call or text or email me. 208-791-8721 [email protected]

All my pathetic college marginal notes are there, causing me to blush forty years later.

02/16/2017

That phrase, written by environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez, has resonance for today's readers of John Steinbeck. Lopez urges us to consider two primal landscapes: external landscapes - our relations to the land, to oaks, to the whir of night frogs - and interior landscapes, often shaped by the…

02/03/2017

Our show is live at 3pm Central. Listen live online. Studio line: 888-755-6377

01/29/2017

Clay Jenkinson writes, "I'm so eager to sit down as Steinbeck to be questioned by Russ Eagle, without any advance questions, on the role of the artist/novelist in a free society. Given the current move to eliminate our national cultural agencies, such conversations become more and more important. Join us in central California (Monterey, Salinas) 4-10 March to make sure the humanities remain central to our lives."
Please text or email us for your itinerary and suggested reading list:
208-791-8721 or [email protected]
It's going to be grand! ... and a lot of FUN! Do come!

A Spring Book Retreat/Tour honoring one of America's most beloved authors, Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck. Discussions lead by humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson.

01/23/2017

This is a one time rare opportunity. And you will meet Mr. Steinbeck on the first night, as portrayed by award-winning humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson. Come join our fun. March 04-10, 2017. Text or email me for itinerary information. 208-791-8721 or [email protected].

March 4-10, 2017 The Landscape of East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony: Doc’s Lab; Whale Watching; Book Discussions; Steinbeck’s Boyhood Home; Great F…

12/08/2016

We have a few seats still left. It's an amazing five days with Clay Jenkinson and others from across the nation!

Some of the best writing of our time is about American Indian history and culture. This retreat will give you a chance to read really remarkable books by and about American Indian history, spirituality, sovereignty, and a view of life distinct from the mainstream of American civilization. In view of...

12/01/2016

Interesting for ODY friends reading and preparing for our Book Retreat on "Native American West; A New Lens" at Lochsa Lodge with Clay Jenkinson coming up this January 14-19. Several of the books on the suggested reading list are on Crazy Horse. Contact us if you wish to come. [email protected]

Black Shawl, Crazy Horse's only wife. After Crazy Horse's murder she went to live with Crazy Horse's aunt, They Are Afraid of Her. Black Shawl and Crazy Horse had named their only daughter after this aunt. Their daughter died as a toddler from disease brought in by the settlers. Photo taken around 1888.

11/02/2016

Come canoe the beautiful Missouri River with us and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson this summer. Tour begins July 17. Check it out at odytours.net or email us at [email protected]

Follow in the footsteps of the Lewis & Clark expedition and explore the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in Montana. The monument spans 149 miles and contains a spectacular array of biological, geological, and historical points of interest. You can float the river, hike a trail, drive for pleasure, find a little solitude in a remote setting or simply marvel at the variety of natural beauty. Photo by Bureau of Land Management - Montana/Dakotas.

09/02/2016

For our Bernard DeVoto fans: "The mountain men were a tough race, as many selective breeds of Americans have had to be; their courage, skill, and mastery of the conditions of their chosen life were absolute or they would not have been here. Nor would they have been here if they had not responded to the loveliness of the country and found in their way of life something precious beyond safety, gain, comfort, and family life.
- Bernard Devoto; Across the Wide Missouri.

08/13/2015

NEW development: Come unwind; unplug; get refreshed; this January; Lochsa Lodge Winter Retreat "Books of the Road" with Clay Jenkinson; Jan 16-21; (Deposit is refundable until Labor Day)

"Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion area fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley

A note from Clay:

"Our broad theme is Books of the Road. You’ll spend four days exploring Homer’s Odyssey, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and two by John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, and The Grapes of Wrath. You’ll read the Odyssey in Richmond Lattimore’s superb translation.

I’ve spent much of my life on the road, one way or another. Nothing delights me more than a loopy auto trip through backcountry with no firm destination in mind, and enough leisure for pointless digressions, side trips, detours, and hiking opportunities. My dream is to buy a compact RV and travel America with cameras, an audio recording device, and a laptop, visiting National Parks, literary shrines, historic sites, and windswept improbable landscapes. I’d write a blog and newspaper articles, plus work on a book, and a series of photo essays. I’d follow Steinbeck’s travels to a certain extent, and Lewis and Clark’s, but I would not lock myself into a journey of imitation.

I’m particularly interested in how long journeys end—whether the traveler has found himself or created a new self, found America (since we all seem to be searching for it), found God, or just turned up at home, like Odysseus, older, a little broken, but ready to resume the previous life.

We’ll do a little journeying ourselves from our base at the marvelous Lochsa Lodge. We’ll sit around a big open fire overlooking the Lochsa River and tell our own journey stories. We may watch such movies as Easy Rider or Martin Sheen’s The Way, and of course we will certainly wind up talking about Lewis & Clark."

Come join the fun! The group is a small group of around 20; we usually have the lodge and the serenity to ourselves. A few seats remain! .... bek
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12/31/2014

Ok,,, does anyone have a favorite dutch oven, no fail, delicious, fabulous recipe that you can share? We are going to have ten dutch ovens and we're going to have a fabulous "bake off" during our winter retreat. Would love to hear some of your recipes if you have one. :))