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New Orleans Motor Coach Trip with "Dale"
Event Contact(s)
Brenda Van Gorp
Registration Info
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Capacity
34 Total Slots
Event is full
Payment Schedule
Initial Payment: $ 645.00
About this event
Cancellation date: Jan 18, 2025
If payment is by CREDIT CARD – 3% transaction fee will be added.
All prices below are for payments by check.
Total trip cost is $2045.00 per person, double occupancy
$645 due upon signup
$700 due 1/18/2025
$700 due 2/15/2025
The 100% cancellation date is January 18, 2025. Refer to the Club Cancellation Policy for details.
Click here to access forum for trip
Downloadable & Printable Itinerary
Much More Info Document
We have no openings left on this tour; it is limited to 34. A waiting list will be available.
March Update:
We will have a quick gathering at the Ski Club meeting, March 15th at 7:15. We will pass out information and itineraries. If you can’t be present, we will follow up with an email or USPS mail to each of you. Then three weeks later we will be leaving for our tour of the South.
We have the option of parking our vehicles at the Longroad parking lot (formerly Clipper Wind Power) at 4601 Bowling St SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Departure time to be announced.
We would ask that everyone check their emergency contacts on the website. Make sure the information is up to date with the phone and name of someone that is not traveling on the same tour. (When you log into the website and your name appears at top right corner, click on that and a Profile Option appears. Go to Basic Membership Information, scroll down to bottom, to Emergency Contact Information) If you need assistance with this task please let me know.
There is a new Forum established for our tour on the EISC website.
This will be used only prior to departure for all your questions. This group is a wealth of information, and we can share answers, hints and hacks. To get there:
- log in to EISC
- go to Forums (along the top task bar) & click on that
- scroll down to “2025 New Orleans Bus Trip” & click on that
- create a new “thread”
- check your forum preferences (what email and name you use) and see who else is on this forum.
- New postings are sent to your email.
January update and revised itinerary:
Once again, we will be touring by bus with “Dale Scharping”.
This will be a familiar routine for some of you as this is our fourth tour with Dale.
We travel to a named location with many planned stops of interest along the way. This itinerary is subject to change as we finalize the tour. This is a brief rundown of the 2025 spring tour and it is still a working draft subject to changes:
- Lincoln’s Library in Springfield IL
- Historic Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg MS
- New Orleans LA staying at a hotel just a short walk from the French Quarter
- Driving tour of New Orleans, including a coffee and Beignet stop and cemetery tour
- Renowned World War II Museum
- Tour of the Mardi Gras World, where they build the floats
- Creole Queen Paddle Wheeler River Cruise with a stop at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and the Historic Chalmette Battlefield
- Time to explore the French Quarter if desired
- A swamp tour on a pontoon boat
- Destrehan Plantation, an excellent combination of history, slave and plantation owner life
- Oak Alley Plantation, touring the big house and slave quarters, lunch on the grounds
- Touring in Baton Rouge LA
- Natchez National Historical Park in Natchez LA
- Hot Springs AK with historical bath houses, walk along the Grand Promenade, take in the Ohio Club (1905 speakeasy and favorite of gangsters and professional baseball players)
- Stops at the Route 66 Auto Museum and Fantastic Caverns in Springfield, MO
- Visit the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, MO
There is a new Forum established for our tour on the EISC website. This will be used only prior to departure for all your questions. (see link above)
December update:
We have just six openings left on this tour; it is limited to 34.
Once again, we will be touring by bus with “Dale Scharping” This will be a familiar routine for some of you as this is our third tour with Dale. We travel to a named location with many planned stops of interest along the way.
This itinerary is subject to change as we finalize the tour.
A brief rundown of the 2025 spring tour includes:
• Lincoln’s Library in Springfield, MO
• Historic Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, MS (because you can’t see too many cannons)
• New Orleans, LA staying at a hotel just a short walk from the French Quarter
• Driving tour of New Orleans, including a coffee and Beignet stop and cemetery tour
• Renowned World War II Museum
• Tour of the Mardi Gras World, where they build the floats
• Creole Queen Paddle Wheeler River Cruise with a stop at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and the Historic Chalmette Battlefield
• Time to explore the French Quarter if desired
• A swamp tour
• Destrehan Plantation, an excellent combination of history, slave and plantation owner life.
• Old Louisiana State Capital Museum in Baton Rouge, LA
• Natchez National Historical Park in Natchez, LA
• Hot Springs, AK with historical bath houses, walk along the Grand Promenade, take in the Ohio Club (1905 speakeasy and favorite of gangsters and professional baseball players)
• Visit the Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, MO--their national Headquarters and granddaddy in their fleet of stores.
• Visit the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, MO
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