Congratulations on your 40 years Mac - have you anything planned?
Yea we booked a tour with an organization we have been members with for the last 21 years
Civil War Round Table of Chicago
Each year we devote 5 days of doing battlefield preservations of the Civil war and rewalk battle sites studying the tactics, paths, minds of the battle plans from
Documents
Once we get to Vicksburg Ms we should have about 200 + members arriving
Have luxury tour busses to take us to historical and actual sites
All permits secured a year in advance
Have select experts for our guides
Up at 7:20 am as busses roll out then
Back to hotel by 7:30
Pm and a speaker banquet begins at 8 to 10
Then the day starts again next day
All our meal choices are ordered in advance
My thoughts are I hope I do like what I ordered for lunch and dinner 6 months out
Lol
All evening dinners are dress up sit down with two park ranger speakers
They usually are men that are expects of this battlefield and share for two hours with the group
We each get our own booklet each night so we can follow easily as many details are given
Places we go to are off limits to the public but our permits are set up for the group a few years out
Gettysburg was a top trip for the group
We were allowed in the new building for the dirama that was in the progress of being finished up
Ten years ago the tour was in chicamauga ga/Chattanooga Tn
We loved this area so much told each other that someday this is the area we will retire to
And 2017 it happened
We moved
Battlefield is a short drive from our house
Horse trails, Biking and walking trails etc
Group tours and local activities always going on for the public
I’ve only had to miss one tour in over these years due to a health issue
Like the knee surgery
So I’ve been resting up and feel I can handle the tour