Travel Bug Events

Events are at 5 pm unless specified otherwise

Subject	Date	Category	Presenter	Description
E-Bike Adventuring	Sat May 23	Slide Show	Sandra Corso	Sandra, Corso, an outdoor instructor and bike adventure guide, will present a 60 minute talk on e-bikes usage, including their versatility for different terrains, safety considerations, and practical maintenance requirements. The talk will emphasize the importance of understanding local regulations and insights on both the benefits and challenges of e-bikes in outdoor activities.
3 Months in Mexico".	Sat May 30	Slide Show	Lisa Friedland	Three Months in Mexico: a kitten, a drug cartel, the ocean, and cacao A kitten, the drug cartel, the ocean and cacao - what do these have to do with one another? Nothing was working for Lisa in her life - not relationships, jobs, or housing. So when an apparent long term friend invited her to Puerto Vallarta to stay for a few weeks, she cut all ties in Santa Fe - put remaining items in storage, and went to Mexico on a one way ticket. She is here to tell you of the adventures that ensued, culminating in a 3 month voyage. In one season she moved ten times, met unbelievable characters, and learned - of friendship, culture, self value, and poised freedom. You 're invited to join us on Saturday, May 30th at 5pm at Travel Bug to find out what stayed after a profound letting go.
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Jun 02	Book Group	Aimee Gwynne Franklyn	Tuesday June 2nd 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Murr Every Exit Brings You Home, Naeem Murr 's first book in two decades — is a profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant 's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy. As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack " Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he 's an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack 's traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack 's attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new to the building. The resulting tangle of love, desire, and conflict returns Jack to the violence of 1980s Gaza, where a taboo affair nearly destroyed his life. A man of many sides—adulterer, devoted husband, fixer, community leader, liar, and the survivor of human and cosmic cruelty in both the past and the novel 's present—Jack is a paragon of both desire and hope, someone who has committed to love because the alternative is utter darkness. A gorgeous blend of gentle comedy and poignant tragedy, of blasted hopes and one man 's indomitable dedication to the well-being of others, this is a book to love and never forget.
Financial Fridays!	Fri Jun 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!
New Zealand an ambassadors view	Sat Jun 06	Slide Show	Tom Udall	The first settlers of New Zealand - around 800 or 900 years ago - called the islands Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It still works
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion	Thu Jun 11	SPECIAL	Ken and Rochelle	Insiders ' Tips for Planning a Successful Trip: Thursday, June 11th from 4:30pm-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.
Chad	Sat Jun 13	Slide Show	Scott Lindenau	Tchad, land-locked by Saharan neighbors is seldom visited but its endless horizons, craggy landforms and ancient rock-art sites offer the intrepid traveler stunning rewards. This adventure takes you over the Saharan dunes into the desolate Ennedi Massif and to the remote outposts of Fada and Faya-Largeau where the Tuareg, Teda and Dazaga cultures survive.
Vietnam: Land of Contrasts	Sat Jun 20	Slide Show	Charryl Berger	Vietnam is a country of striking contrasts. One day you are standing in the cool mountain air of Sa Pa, Vietnam 's highest and most northern city, in a tribal village of Black H 'mong, and the next you are navigating the organized chaos of Hanoi or the entrepreneurial pulse of Ho Chi Minh City. The country reveals itself in layers: French colonial architecture, Buddhist temples, war memorials, rice terraces, and the unforgettable aromas drifting from street-side kitchens. Come with me as I journey from the bustling streets of Saigon to the more measured and politically historic atmosphere of Hanoi to fertile river deltas and quiet countryside. I 'll discuss the enduring legacy of the Vietnam War and how memories and perspectives can differ between North and South. And, of course, no journey through Vietnam would be complete without its extraordinary food culture: steaming bowls of pho, lively street markets, local beers, hammock cafés, and even a few culinary surprises, including fried tarantulas. This talk is a look at a nation shaped by resilience, complexity, and an irresistible vitality.
Jack Rittenhouse A Western Literary Life	Fri Jun 26	Book Group	Edward Archuleta	Old Santa Fe Asso Bookgroup 4pm The first biography of Jack D. Rittenhouse, the pioneering twentieth-century writer, printer, publisher, Western historian, antiquarian bookman, advertising executive, and chronicler of the golden age of Route 66 was born in 1912 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Rittenhouse had an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for adventure, Farmer explains. After dropping out of college during the Great Depression, he rode the rails to New York City, where he got a job as a bookseller. By 23, Rittenhouse was working in the mail room at Knopf, where he learned the ropes of advertising and marketing. Drawn to the history of the American West, he began collecting books on the region and founded Stagecoach Press in 1946, through which he published a popular guidebook to Highway 66, among other titles. Rittenhouse oversaw every aspect of the publication process at Stagecoach, from acquisitions to design and printing. Ever the book collector, he began publishing the newsletter New Mexico Book News, which "helped lay the foundation for a vibrant statewide renaissance of the New Mexico book community. " In 1968, he became an editor at the University Press of New Mexico, where he established a successful reprint series of books by Larry McMurtry, Mary Austin, and others. Complete with admiring reflections and lively prose, this is a solid tribute to a celebrated bookman.
Traveling the 1837 Ioway Map	Sat Jun 27	Slide Show	Bill Green
Financial Fridays!	Fri Jul 03	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!
NO SHOW 4TH OF JULY	Sat Jul 04	CANCELED	NO SHOW
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Jul 07	Book Group	Aimee Gwynne Franklyn	Tuesday July 7th 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an intimate chronicle, "full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence " (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist 's unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. "Heart-smashed " by Mary 's death, yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed " by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn 't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her. " She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as "my shelter and my storm ".
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion	Thu Jul 09	SPECIAL	Rochelle Gerratt	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.
Bicycle Tour Vietnam	Sat Jul 11	Slide Show	Knox Kinlaw
Oman	Sat Jul 18	Slide Show	Rebekah Kanter
From Whence the Ukrainians?	Sat Jul 25	Slide Show	Dennis Reinhartz	One of the principal justifications given by Putin for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now is in its fifth year, is that Ukrainians are “wayward” Russians manipulated by “fascists,” and that he is trying to liberate them and bring them home into the historic Russian nation. But are they really? To answer this question, this presentation will examine the evolution of the Ukrainians, and by necessity that of the Russians, over the last millennium. Ultimately, it will be shown that the Ukrainians are not Russians, wayward or otherwise, that Putin’s motivations for the invasion are more convoluted. This talk will be illustrated with numerous period and contemporary images, maps, and other graphics.
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 01	AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 08	AVAILABLE
Tunisia	Sat Aug 15	Slide Show	Rebekah Kanter
Electric Vehicle Traveling	Sat Aug 22	Slide Show	Athena Christodoulou
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 29	AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE	Sat Sep 05	AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE	Sat Sep 12	AVAILABLE

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Subject	Date	Description
E-Bike Adventuring	Sat May 23	Sandra, Corso, an outdoor instructor and bike adventure guide, will present a 60 minute talk on e-bikes usage, including their versatility for different terrains, safety considerations, and practical maintenance requirements. The talk will emphasize the importance of understanding local regulations and insights on both the benefits and challenges of e-bikes in outdoor activities.
3 Months in Mexico".	Sat May 30	Three Months in Mexico: a kitten, a drug cartel, the ocean, and cacao A kitten, the drug cartel, the ocean and cacao - what do these have to do with one another? Nothing was working for Lisa in her life - not relationships, jobs, or housing. So when an apparent long term friend invited her to Puerto Vallarta to stay for a few weeks, she cut all ties in Santa Fe - put remaining items in storage, and went to Mexico on a one way ticket. She is here to tell you of the adventures that ensued, culminating in a 3 month voyage. In one season she moved ten times, met unbelievable characters, and learned - of friendship, culture, self value, and poised freedom. You 're invited to join us on Saturday, May 30th at 5pm at Travel Bug to find out what stayed after a profound letting go.
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Jun 02	Tuesday June 2nd 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Murr Every Exit Brings You Home, Naeem Murr 's first book in two decades — is a profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant 's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy. As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack " Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he 's an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack 's traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack 's attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new to the building. The resulting tangle of love, desire, and conflict returns Jack to the violence of 1980s Gaza, where a taboo affair nearly destroyed his life. A man of many sides—adulterer, devoted husband, fixer, community leader, liar, and the survivor of human and cosmic cruelty in both the past and the novel 's present—Jack is a paragon of both desire and hope, someone who has committed to love because the alternative is utter darkness. A gorgeous blend of gentle comedy and poignant tragedy, of blasted hopes and one man 's indomitable dedication to the well-being of others, this is a book to love and never forget.
Financial Fridays!	Fri Jun 05	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!
New Zealand an ambassadors view	Sat Jun 06	The first settlers of New Zealand - around 800 or 900 years ago - called the islands Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It still works
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion	Thu Jun 11	Insiders ' Tips for Planning a Successful Trip: Thursday, June 11th from 4:30pm-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.
Chad	Sat Jun 13	Tchad, land-locked by Saharan neighbors is seldom visited but its endless horizons, craggy landforms and ancient rock-art sites offer the intrepid traveler stunning rewards. This adventure takes you over the Saharan dunes into the desolate Ennedi Massif and to the remote outposts of Fada and Faya-Largeau where the Tuareg, Teda and Dazaga cultures survive.
Vietnam: Land of Contrasts	Sat Jun 20	Vietnam is a country of striking contrasts. One day you are standing in the cool mountain air of Sa Pa, Vietnam 's highest and most northern city, in a tribal village of Black H 'mong, and the next you are navigating the organized chaos of Hanoi or the entrepreneurial pulse of Ho Chi Minh City. The country reveals itself in layers: French colonial architecture, Buddhist temples, war memorials, rice terraces, and the unforgettable aromas drifting from street-side kitchens. Come with me as I journey from the bustling streets of Saigon to the more measured and politically historic atmosphere of Hanoi to fertile river deltas and quiet countryside. I 'll discuss the enduring legacy of the Vietnam War and how memories and perspectives can differ between North and South. And, of course, no journey through Vietnam would be complete without its extraordinary food culture: steaming bowls of pho, lively street markets, local beers, hammock cafés, and even a few culinary surprises, including fried tarantulas. This talk is a look at a nation shaped by resilience, complexity, and an irresistible vitality.
Jack Rittenhouse A Western Literary Life	Fri Jun 26	Old Santa Fe Asso Bookgroup 4pm The first biography of Jack D. Rittenhouse, the pioneering twentieth-century writer, printer, publisher, Western historian, antiquarian bookman, advertising executive, and chronicler of the golden age of Route 66 was born in 1912 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Rittenhouse had an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for adventure, Farmer explains. After dropping out of college during the Great Depression, he rode the rails to New York City, where he got a job as a bookseller. By 23, Rittenhouse was working in the mail room at Knopf, where he learned the ropes of advertising and marketing. Drawn to the history of the American West, he began collecting books on the region and founded Stagecoach Press in 1946, through which he published a popular guidebook to Highway 66, among other titles. Rittenhouse oversaw every aspect of the publication process at Stagecoach, from acquisitions to design and printing. Ever the book collector, he began publishing the newsletter New Mexico Book News, which "helped lay the foundation for a vibrant statewide renaissance of the New Mexico book community. " In 1968, he became an editor at the University Press of New Mexico, where he established a successful reprint series of books by Larry McMurtry, Mary Austin, and others. Complete with admiring reflections and lively prose, this is a solid tribute to a celebrated bookman.
Traveling the 1837 Ioway Map	Sat Jun 27
Financial Fridays!	Fri Jul 03	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!
NO SHOW 4TH OF JULY	Sat Jul 04
Travel Bug Book Discussion	Tue Jul 07	Tuesday July 7th 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an intimate chronicle, "full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence " (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist 's unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. "Heart-smashed " by Mary 's death, yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed " by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn 't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her. " She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as "my shelter and my storm ".
Travel Tips: Monthly Discussion	Thu Jul 09	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.
Bicycle Tour Vietnam	Sat Jul 11
Oman	Sat Jul 18
From Whence the Ukrainians?	Sat Jul 25	One of the principal justifications given by Putin for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now is in its fifth year, is that Ukrainians are “wayward” Russians manipulated by “fascists,” and that he is trying to liberate them and bring them home into the historic Russian nation. But are they really? To answer this question, this presentation will examine the evolution of the Ukrainians, and by necessity that of the Russians, over the last millennium. Ultimately, it will be shown that the Ukrainians are not Russians, wayward or otherwise, that Putin’s motivations for the invasion are more convoluted. This talk will be illustrated with numerous period and contemporary images, maps, and other graphics.
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 01
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 08
Tunisia	Sat Aug 15
Electric Vehicle Traveling	Sat Aug 22
AVAILABLE	Sat Aug 29
AVAILABLE	Sat Sep 05
AVAILABLE	Sat Sep 12

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Sandra Corso

Saturday May 23, 2026 at 5pm

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Santa Fe, NM 87501

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Sandra Corso Saturday May 23, 2026 at 5pm

Travel Bug 839 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501

Sandra Corso

Saturday May 23, 2026 at 5pm

Travel Bug
839 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501