FAR-FLUNG ADVENTURES WITH FABULOUS FRIENDS

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"For memory has painted this perfect day with colors that never fade, and we find at the end of a perfect day the soul of a friend we've made. " (Carne Jacobs Bond)

During the years that Mother's Tours have been helping folks explore the far corners of the earth, we've been impressed over and over again by how downright wonderful our readers are to travel with. You people — adventurous, diverse, hardy, open-minded, talented, slow to complain, and quick to laugh — have filled our trips with wisdom, love, knowledge, and companionship that, in retrospect, has often outshone even the most spectacular places we've visited. It isn't surprising, then, that our travels have resulted in readers' entering into deep friendships, business partnerships, and even marriages.

And this rare fellowship has never been stronger than it became during our recent visit to the New Age community of Findhorn in northern Scotland and our subsequent stay on the Hebridean island of Erraid, a childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson. (Look for a report about life on this enchanted isle in our next issue.) In fact, the trip was so fulfilling, and so many people who wanted to go were unable to do so because the tour was already filled up, that we're making plans for a return visit to Findhorn and Erraid in June 1983. The timing will allow us to celebrate Midsummer's Eve in a land that still retains much of the magic of its Celtic past.

THE BEST OF FRANCE

There are many good reasons to take a trip through the French countryside: the fine food, the superb wines, the impressive historical landmarks, and the joie de vivre of that land's people . . . and MOTHER's second Energy Tour of France (to run October 14 to 24, 1982) will allow participants to enjoy all those things, on a journey that will take them from Luxembourg to Spain and from Andorra to Switzerland.

Furthermore, in addition to all of the usual French attractions, this trip will focus on France's renowned work with renewable energy resources. In Paris, we'll meet with energy experts from the Commissariat a l'Energie Solaire (COMES), then travel across France to a solar village, apartment complex, day-care center, sports center, and hospital. In Odeillo, we'll hear a lecture on the large sun-powered furnace there and inspect houses fitted with Trombe walls . . . before stopping at Montlouis to see the nation's first solar concentrating furnace, which was built in 1946. It's our belief that these and other visits (including a tour of the world's largest photovoltaic pumping station) and the opportunity for some great sightseeing (we'll tour Versailles and the cathedral at Reims, for instance) will combine to produce a wonderful vacation that'll give our travelers more knowledge about France's advanced alternative energy program than most French folks have.

However, the departure date for this educational tour, which is being cosponsored by Jordan College and COMES, is fast approaching. If you want to join it, we'll need your full payment of $1,395 very soon. (That price includes round-trip airfare from New York, deluxe hotels, breakfasts, land transportation, and more!)

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