My perfect vacation combines the experience of natural beauty, a look at the local wildlife and a bit of education on the side. I can get all that from Footloose Forays, a company which specializes in natural history trips. These excursions are lead by the Owner, Michael Ellis. Michael has degrees in botany and marine biology and is an outstanding Field Naturalist and teacher. Every year he leads natural history tours to the Serengeti, Zimbabwe, Machu Picchu, the Galapagos Islands, Turkey, Antarctica, and the wilder parts of California.
Some travel companies specialize in trips by and for women.
One such company is called Sacred Journeys. It is owned and run by a lovely woman named Aloura O'Dell. Sacred Journeys offers spiritual tours for women to sacred sites in England, Ireland, Crete and Hawaii. I came away from my weekend at MotherTree feeling spiritually renewed and refreshed. I owe much of that to the powerful women's rituals that took place that weekend.