Small, custom groups are a great luxury in the travel business, because of the high overhead. In recent years the value of the dollar has fallen, making foreign travel more expensive. I am convinced that on your own you could not duplicate our tours for less cost. Our tours are like that. How we travel, and what we learn about ourselves, is as important as what we see.
Foreign travel has the effect of loosening our barriers.
Away from our daily routines and familiar surroundings we are more sensitive, more open. We become child-like in our curiosity and our enjoyment of the wonders that we see. Sometimes we follow actual historic pilgrimage trails, and visit sites where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have preceded us. Regardless of our religious affiliations, it is impossible not to be moved by the power of such places. We are much more than a group of strangers being herded around to look at famous buildings.