Our veteran leader Gerry experiences the newest trip in Mississippi

I just returned from the first Mississippi tour and want to thank the whole Bristol VBT team for making this new tour such a success. I know everyone works so hard to get a new vacation up and running. Out of the 19 guests we had 17 who were frequent travelers, as a matter of fact Tujon (one of our outstanding Trip Leaders) had 2 previous guests and I had 4. The weather was in the mid to high 80's and overcast everyday looking like it could rain any minute. But the Gods were shinning down on us and it rained every night at around 5:00pm, so officially no one wore a rain jacket while riding. All the innkeepers were the best, the guests loved them. The Natchez Trace was also fantastic. It was like riding on a large two lane bike path and you could just zone out and ride. Car drivers were so polite and no one had a bad experience. One of the many highlights of the tour was our trip to Alcorn University and lunch with the students. The thing that impressed guests the most were the students and it was so nice to see them sitting together, talking and sharing lunch. The students were so polite and interesting to talk to. We gave the guests an option to walk the last day. It is a 10 mile ride around Natchez visiting the Antebellum homes and we had 12 folks do it. We shuttled them to a home that was located a ways out to visit and then brought them back to town to walk around. Then when they were done for the day we picked them up and everyone enjoyed the opportunity to visit the town at their own pace.
I personally want to thank the leading team who I worked with in Mississippi. Tujon is a great leader and yes you can teach an old dog new tricks, I learned so much from him and also from our new leader, Akira. It was valuable to see things from her perspective as a new Trip Leader. We are so lucky to have both of them as Trip Leaders. As you can tell we think the Mississippi tour is a fantastic new tour that we know will be around for a long time.