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Date |
Category |
Presenter |
Description |
| Electric Vehicle Traveling |
Sat Aug 22 |
Slide Show |
Athena and Cheryl |
Adventure is Knocking and New Travel is beckoning. Join Athena Christodoulou and Cheryl Romero on a journey from Albuquerque to Canada and the far, far Northeast United States. Discover the joys of electric vehicle travel. For the intrepid and the timid. Seeing our beautiful country from mountain to the shoreline will inspire a love of our lands. The journey included three national parks, three monasteries and spanned over 5000 miles driven. It ranged from a precise travel itinerary to "stop and explore as you like. " Athena is an award-winning Tesla driver and Cheryl an intrepid and detail oriented travel planner. |
| Costa Rica Wildlife & Zip Lines |
Sat Aug 29 |
Slide Show |
Judy Costlow |
Costa Rica, a democracy with no army, an environmental watchdog and a land that welcomes immigrants to build a new life there.
I got to spend two weeks in this amazing place seeing it from zip lines, rafts, and by foot seeing birds, frogs(hundreds), water creatures and air borne monkeys and my favorite-SLOTHS!!! Join me on this expedition! |
| Travel Bug Book Discussion |
Tue Sep 01 |
Book Group |
Aimee Gwynne Franklin |
6:00 - 7:30 PM
This discussion group is hosted in Travel Bug the first Tuesday of the month by Aimee Gwynne Franklyn, an independent curator, art historian and producer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Everyone welcome!
September book is Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers
"From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Yellow Birds comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France. With the spare and exquisite prose and the profound insight that made The Yellow Birds a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honor, and heroism. Children of the Wild captures what it means to be human in times of loss—and how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures. "
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| Travel Tips: Monthly |
Thu Sep 03 |
SPECIAL |
Ken and Rochelle |
This month 's meeting will focus on Mexico: beaches, culture, and crafts.
4:30-6pm
Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.
This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!
Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company. |
| Zozobra Fiesta Weekend |
Sat Sep 05 |
CANCELED |
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| Before It Was Called Santa Fe Style |
Sat Sep 12 |
Slide Show |
Chuck Wolfe |
Santa Fe is often described in visual shorthand: adobe or stucco walls, muted earth colors, and "Santa Fe Style. " But the City 's identity was taking shape long before the style gained a name. Drawing on his recent Santa Fe New Mexican essay, author, urbanist, and photographer Charles R. Wolfe will explore the deeper sources of a city 's character—in the case from the landscape and Indigenous and Hispanic traditions to the Salinas Pueblo Missions, streets, acequias, public life, and patterns of adaptation.
Using ideas and images from his three books—Urbanism Without Effort, Seeing the Better City and Sustaining a City 's Culture and Character—Wolfe will also show how to more generally read the "DNA " of cities: the inherited qualities, everyday practices and visual clues that make a place distinctive. He will also summarize his "Leveraging Place " approach, asking how Santa Fe can welcome change while preserving continuity, cultural memory and the qualities that make it more than a marketable style. |
| NM Wild's Passport to NM's Rivers |
Fri Sep 18 |
Slide Show |
Bjorn Fredrickson |
5-6pm
New Mexico Wild is excited to celebrate the launch of the newest addition to our Wild Guide collection, Wild Waters: Passport to New Mexico 's Rivers.
Join us for an engaging conversation with New Mexico Wild Conservation Director Bjorn Fredrickson, who will speak about one of the Land of Enchantment 's greatest treasures—our rivers.
Whether you 're drawn to whitewater adventure, native trout streams, or the quiet beauty of hidden canyons, Wild Waters opens the door to New Mexico 's most extraordinary river segments.
The guide features more than 40 river segments across eight major watersheds, with detailed information on access points, ideal seasons, and each river 's ecological and recreational significance.
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| National Parks |
Sat Sep 19 |
Slide Show |
Antonio Lopez |
The Lopez family set a large goal: visit all of the American National Parks before their son turned eighteen. Join them on the road trip of a lifetime as Antonio chronicles the challenges, the beauty, and the wonder of traveling across the most beautiful pieces of America.
From half marathons in Zion to snorkeling in the Dry Tortugas and chatting with marmots in the Grand Tetons, Antonio weaves together stories you won 't find in a guidebook.
Along the way, this small family from Santa Fe ties all of us to Mother Nature and reveals how their grand adventure changes the author 's view on everything from a dying mother, the COVID-19 Pandemic, God, and family.
National Parks is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americans share.
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| Old Santa Fe Association Book Group |
Fri Sep 25 |
Book Group |
Edward Archuleta |
4-5:30 |
| Adventure in Palau |
Sat Sep 26 |
Slide Show |
Stephanie Gardner |
Join filmmaker and traveler Stephanie Gardner as she shares her adventure stories with historical context through the independent island-nation of Palau, in the Western Pacific. Stephanie spent a month exploring Palau while on break between filming her latest "Cinema Nomad " episodes.
What she discovered is a small island-chain with a friendly population and a fascinating history that includes indigenous Belauan cultures; to German-then-Spanish-then-Japanese-then American occupations, and road to its own independence as an island at the center of ecologically-minded advocacy. Palau has some of the best preserved coral reefs left on the planet and a rich marine life. In addition to a brief culture and history overview, Stephanie will focus some of her presentation on The Battle of Peleliu, one of the bloodiest and longest battles of WWII 's Pacific Theatre, which took place on one of 9 inhabited islands of Palau, Peleliu, an island that has a population of around 600 people, on land that is around 6 square miles.
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| Velo New Mexico |
Sun Sep 27 |
SPECIAL |
Tim |
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Sat Oct 03 |
AVAILABLE |
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| Ethiopia |
Sat Oct 10 |
Slide Show |
Scott Lindenau |
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| Tunisia |
Sat Oct 17 |
Slide Show |
Rebekah Kanter |
rescheduled from 8/15 |
| Watch Party - Cinema Nomad: Philippines |
Fri Oct 23 |
SPECIAL |
Stephanie Gardner |
6:00-8:30pm
Join us for a special double-header Travel Talk on the Philippines followed by a Premiere Screening of Cinema Nomad: Philippines, in celebration of the upcoming release of Cinema Nomad Season 2.
Taos-based Filmmaker and Traveler, Stephanie Gardner returns to Travel Bug to share her journeys through the Philippines.
After the talk, Stephanie will screen her Cinema Nomad docu-series episode from the Philippines, and will be on hand to answer any questions about the travels and filming.
Cinema Nomad is an arts and culture focused travel tv series that explores various nations through the lens of the country 's cinematic past, present and future. In each episode, our cinephile host, Stephanie Gardner, takes viewers on a journey around the world through the eyes and experiences of filmmakers in their thirties, from a diverse set of backgrounds.
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| Sandy Schackel |
Sat Oct 24 |
Slide Show |
Sandy |
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Sat Oct 31 |
AVAILABLE |
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Sat Nov 07 |
AVAILABLE |
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| An Art Tour of Rome, Part II |
Sat Nov 14 |
Slide Show |
Ken Collins |
This program will be a continuation of one given in late 2023. This presentation is based on a visit to Rome made in February of this year, and includes all new prime locations, including The Vatican Museums, the Galleria Borghese, the Baths of Caracalla, the Ara Pacis, Palazzo Barberini and Hadrian 's Mausoleum (Castelo Sant ' Angelo), along with countless churches, each of which houses amazing treasures.. Rome is a seemingly endless cornucopia of historical and artistic wonders from all eras of Western civilization, so it is possible to keep finding major new treasures to experience. February continues to be an excellent month to visit Rome - no major holidays, off-season, and surprisingly pleasant weather with early blooming trees, bulbs blooming and the first shrubs bursting into bright color, along with outdoor cafés bustling with life. |
| Cuba |
Sat Nov 21 |
Slide Show |
Peter LaDelfe |
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