06/05/2020
Update 5/6/2020
Hello fellow adventure travelers and good friends! As always, we hope everyone is safe and doing well. We are all dealing with the current Corona virus outbreak situation together as one big family. It’s difficult for us all to not see friends and family, go out to dinner, go shopping and basically just go about our daily lives as we would like. This is true of our travel and vacation life as well. It is also true that we cannot yet predict exactly when our lives will be getting back to normal. With all of that said, and in an attempt to be proactive and responsive to the current situation that we all find ourselves in, we are announcing another update and revised 2020 tour schedule that will be outlined below:
A) All tours for the months of May through August 2020 have been cancelled with the exception of one tour reschedule as of this update. The canceled tours include “Riding Mountain National Park”, “Cabaret at The Guthrie Theater”, and “On to Richmond: A Virginia Battlefield Tour”. We have also decided to reschedule our “Historic Adventure Travel’s First Mystery Tour” to August 10-11, 2020. These changes are a major portion of our tour season. However, we are taking these actions as part of a proactive effort to adapt to our current situation and above all else, be safe. Many of these cancelled tours will be rescheduled to our 2021 travel season, as we know many of you have been excited to visit those travel destinations with us. If you have made any deposits or full payments for any of these trips, you will automatically be receiving those payments back in full with this letter. Or upon request; you are also able to have those deposits transferred to one of our other tours that are part of our updated travel schedule later this year.
B) In light of these changes, our tours going out in September through December will remain on schedule and remain open for registrations at this time. These still on schedule excursions include the “Pioneer Trails and Old West Tales Tour”, “Fall Color Tour: Galena, Illinois & Rock River Falls Colors Gala”, “Polar Bear Express: Expedition to Churchill” and our “2020 Christmas Tour” (TBA). There will be more information on all of these later season tours within an updated 2020 flier arriving in the mail to you all shortly. In regard to our late summer tour and beyond, we will be keeping close track of, and following the recommendations and guidelines of the CDC, health professionals and experts to make our bus tours a safe environment for everyone.
This decision is difficult for many reasons, but knowing that it is made for the overall safety of everyone makes it the right thing to do at this time. We value the health and safety of our travelers above all else! We want to thank you for the understanding and support we have always received in the past, and continue to receive today from all of our travel friends and explorers during these trying times. Your support into the future is important to us, and we will all come out of this on the other side strong, healthy and optimistic about the future ahead! We look forward to yet another time on a sunny morning soon, when we can all see each other's smiling faces boarding the coach as we set off on another Historic Adventure Travel excursion with good friends!
Stay Safe,
John Grabko and Historic Adventure Travel
