Travel Bug Events
Events are at 5 pm unless specified otherwise
| Subject | Date | Category | Presenter | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| math amigos | Wed Jul 23 | SPECIAL | lynn bickley | 2 pm reserved for group |
| Cycling the Roof of the World | Sat Jul 26 | Slide Show | Tim Goering and Dave Colbert | Cycling the Roof of the World – crossing the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas by mountain bike In 1986, Tim Goering and his buddy Dave Colbert rode 3000 km by mountain bike across Inner Mongolia, China, and Tibet to Nepal. Their trip was not approved by Chinese authorities at the time, adding an additional element of intrigue to their journey. Their journey included crossing the Tibetan Plateau and exploring a yak trail over a wind-scoured 19,000-foot pass in the shadow of Mount Everest. Tim and Dave will present a travelogue of their trip, conducted nearly 40 years ago, when China was just beginning to open to the west, and much of Tibet was closed to foreigners. |
| Travel Bug Book Dissussions | Tue Jul 29 | Book Group | Aimee Gwynne Franklyn | Tilt by Emma Pattee Tuesday July 29 at 5.30 Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel following one woman’s journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life. |
| Financial Fridays! 5:00-6:30pm | Fri Aug 01 | SPECIAL | Emily Estes | Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening! From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living. Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer! Remember Happy Hour is 5-6pm! Everyone welcome! |
| Disaster Stories | Sat Aug 02 | SPECIAL | Staff | Had a bad trip? (or a really good one) Come share with felllow travelers. Seeking short presentations of 5 - 10 minutes. 10 minutes of fame awaits. eMail (travelbug@mapsofnewmexico.com) us. |
| Sailing Down the Congo | Sat Aug 09 | Slide Show | Sangeeta Sahaya | Last December Sangeeta spent almost a full month in the Congo Basin exploring one of the few areas of the African continent that she had not visited before. While the Congo provided the thrill of spotting wildlife and even introduced her to new species of flora and fauna, what really distinguished this trip from many others was its history and the deep sense of discovery it engendered in her throughout. Until the mid-1800 's, the Congo remained almost entirely unexplored by outsiders. The dense forests and wild rivers of the Congo made travel and exploration much more forbidding and even to this day, the Congo does not give up her secrets easily. Like Alice in Wonderland, as this journey unfolded it only became "curiouser and curiouser. " Join Sangeeta as we step through this Looking Glass into an enigmatic world of great apes, pinkish-tusked elephants, red river hogs, water-drumming tribes and the fashionistas who inspired the theme of the last Met Gala! |
| Indian Market no show | Sat Aug 16 | CANCELED | Too much chaos downtown, catch us next week! | |
| Alula to Petra Jordan | Sat Aug 23 | Slide Show | Christy Gervers | A Do-It-Yourself Trip to Saudi Arabia and Jordan "High on our bucket list was the historic Nabatean civilization in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. In 2025 we finally went. Our destination in Saudi was AlUla, it is new to tourism and there is not much information available about independent travel. We found an English speaking taxi driver at the AlUla airport who became our driver for the whole visit. Alula has ancient town sites and 1500 year old Nabatean tombs. Petra was spectacular and almost deserted because the Red Sea cruises have been discontinued. We walked or rode donkeys into the ancient city of Petra to visit the amazing rock cut Treasury, Monastery, temples and other edifices. " --Christy Gervers |
| Art in the Loo | Sun Aug 24 | Booksigning | Christy Hengst | Art in the Loo book release/signing and pop-up exhibit of the original pieces, Sunday August 24th 3-5 pm, at Travel Bug and in the Axle truck (in parking lot of Travel Bug). Informal chat about the experience of this year-long clandestine public art project at 4pm. Art in the Loo was a city-wide, public art project in which 40 small paintings of Yucca plants were installed anonymously in public bathroom stalls all over Santa Fe, NM, for the duration of one year. The proposal was to create a little surprise and aesthetic pleasure in a place that typically is not considered in that way. Give a little lift where it 's needed most. |
| Travel Bug Book Dissussions 5pm | Tue Aug 26 | Book Group | Aimee Gwynne Franklyn | Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Tuesday, August 26, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis. |
| Story Safari: Ethiopia | Sat Aug 30 | Slide Show | Kenny Mann | Kenny (born in Kenya) has travelled all over the world, but rarely in a tourist group. She prefers to travel authentically "among the people of the country you’re visiting, not in an isolated tour bus.” In January 2024, Kenny and her husband Uli hired a local Ethiopian guide to take them to visit the Omo River Valley. Although it was fascinating to witness the local culture - still raw and relatively untouched by tourism- Kenny came away feeling like a privileged white voyeur and vowed never to travel that way again. Instead, Kenny has come up with an idea for mutual cultural exchange that could change the travel industry in Ethiopia, Kenya, and other countries. Please join Kenny in a discussion around her idea, illustrated by images and videos from her journey. |
| Financial Fridays! 5:00-6:30pm | Fri Sep 05 | SPECIAL | Emily Estes | Join us and Emily Estes (Financial Advisor, Edward Jones) the first Friday of every month for an informal, but informative way to enjoy your evening! From 5:15-5:45pm Emily will cover various financial topics to help you live a life worth living. Stay after the talk until 6:30pm for the Q&A, casual discussion, and a beer! Remember Happy Hour is 5-6pm! Everyone welcome! |
| Exploring New Mexico's Special Places | Sat Sep 06 | Slide Show | David Ryan | With cooler temperatures just around the corner, now is the time to get ready to explore our fantastic state. David Ryan shows us many of the special places that you can only find in New Mexico – places that are compelling and important enough to warrant a trip across the country to check out. David Ryan, who moved to New Mexico in 1998 (after completing the 2180-mile Appalachian Trail), is the author of Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico and the coauthor of the most recent edition of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Albuquerque. Both books are available at Travel Bug. He will be signing books at the conclusion of his talk. |
| Kennecott Alaska | Sat Sep 13 | Slide Show | Richard Rindone | Richard will take you deep within the Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve, a very large but deserted mine operation that ran between 1911 to 1938 when it closed almost overnight. Everything was left behind including dishes on tables and medical records in the hospital. Richard felt as if he was transported through time wandering through the empty buildings. The Historic Landmark is located about 300 miles from Anchorage. The Kennecott Glacier Lodge operates a very nice hotel for stays while visiting. Guided tours are given daily. The remote location is rich with both history and hiking. |
| Europe and Great Britain | Sat Sep 20 | Slide Show | Suzanne Blazier | Join Suzanne Blazier for a presentation of sites seen across Great Britain and Europe. This was a recent trip, May 2025, and included spending time in Wales, England, Amsterdam, Bruges, and Paris. The journey was 24 days, with two of those spent traveling from Albuquerque there and back. This journey was planned by Suzanne and was not part of a tour group experience. |
| Sierra Club: Wild Rivers Trails | Sat Sep 27 | Slide Show | John Buscher | Hiking the lesser-used Wild Rivers Trails Del Dubois will share his extensive knowledge of the trails in the northern section of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. The talk will be followed with an hike guided by Del to Cerro De La Olla (Pot Mountain) on a weekend day. |
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Cycling the Roof of the World
with Tim Goering and Dave Colbert
Saturday July 26th, 2025 5 pm
In 1986, Tim Goering and his buddy Dave Colbert rode 3000 km by mountain bike across Inner Mongolia, China, and Tibet to Nepal. Their trip was not approved by Chinese authorities at the time, adding an additional element of intrigue to their journey. Their journey included crossing the Tibetan Plateau and exploring a yak trail over a wind-scoured 19,000-foot pass in the shadow of Mount Everest. Tim and Dave will present a travelogue of their trip, conducted nearly 40 years ago, when China was just beginning to open to the west, and much of Tibet was closed to foreigners.
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