Mark Twain’s River
Come spend a day like Mark Twain, leisurely cruising the Mississippi with 100 miles of scenic shoreline and peaceful towns passing quietly behind your great paddlewheel. Then explore the town of Hannibal, home to Tom Sawyer & Becky Thatcher and their friend Huck. With your imagination you can travel to places in time, best described in literature.
Mark Twain’s Hannibal
Hannibal is one of Missouri’s best tourism destinations. As the boyhood home of Mark Twain, Hannibal is famously known as the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. But there’s also trains and ghost tours and caves and so much more.
Hitching a Ride on Route 66
Route 66, “The Mother Road” — holds a special place in American consciousness. It evokes images of simpler times, mom and pop businesses, the mobilization of a nation and the influence of the automobile. Come experience the journey’s of earlier generations.
Small Town Missouri
The heritage of 19th Century German immigrants is very much alive in small town Missouri. Join us discover the foods & wines of the Old Country paired with a couple of Catholic Shrines and a replica of the Vietnam Wall.
St. Louis Blues
This tour is a Gateway to St. Louis Music Legends past and present. At the National Blues Museum, explore the blues and celebrates the genre as the foundation of all modern American music. Visit the Soulard Neighborhood, the city’s oldest neighborhood and also a center for St. Louis-style Blues music. Plus, enjoy live jazz and blues in the evenings.
The Headwaters of the Mississippi
Let us guide your group to NW Minnesota and the birthplace of the mighty Mississippi River. Stand next to a large pine log carved with yellow letters that marks the beginning of the great river’s 2,552-mile route across America, from Minnesota’s north woods to the Gulf of Mexico. This itinerary will take you from the Headwaters, past the confluence with the Missouri and into St Louis and the Gateway Arch.
St. Louis & The Mother Road
This short four day features St Louis, as the largest city on Route 66 between Los Angeles and Chicago. You’ll spend a day with sights to the north and another day touring the south, you learn of history and life on what Steinbeck called “The Mother Road” in his vivid portrait, The Grapes of Wrath. You hear about Americana, family vacations, early tourist marketing as tap your toes to Nat King Cole’s “Won’t you get hip, to this timely tip, Get your kicks on Route 66..”
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Chasing Lewis & Clark is a historical odyssey with a full-time Historian onboard. You follow the Missouri River from it’s mouth to it’s headwaters, then cross the Rockies into the Snake River Valley and travel though it to the Columbia River and it’s end on the coast. This tour offers a number of hotels with river views, unique dining experiences, historical information on native peoples and conversation on the difference in the flora and fauna along your route.