Armchair Traveler
All Armchair Traveler presentations are collected here.
Armchair Traveler: Wales and NW England
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An Icelandic saga
Event Date:When you are of Icelandic descent you can trace your ancestors back to around 1200 and sometimes further.
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Culture, history, and geology—along the Rhine
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Cathy Lee Gierke presented photos about her cruise on the Rhine river, Italian Switzerland, and Lake Como -- and the history, culture and geology along the way.
More...Tour Egypt and Lebanon
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Ann Hill Duin and her husband Doug Duin shared their recent “bucket list” tour of “Egypt: Temples, Tombs, Time.” Bill and Sheryl Lazarus took us on "A Tour of Lebanon, 2022." See the video.
More...Rwanda and the British Columbia Coast
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The April 23, 2025 Armchair Traveler Program featured Ceeya Patton-Bolman sharing insights, maps, and photos based on her 20 years of experience in Rwanda, and Gene Allen sharing pictures, maps, and information about the British Columbia Coast and its San Juan and Gulf Islands.
More...Japan, Norway, and Sweden
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UMRA’s first Armchair Traveler program of the new year included two presentations featuring travels in Japan with Wayne “Ironwain” Potratz and in Norway and Sweden with Lynn Anderson.
More...Israel, Egypt, and Tanzania
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UMRA member Paul Letourneau takes us on a safari in northern Tanzania and Brenda Knapp-Polzin shares photos and insights from a 2023 family trip to Israel and Egypt.
More...Ballparks and Scotland
Event Date:Tour all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums with Will Craig, and discover central Scotland with Craig and Janet Swan when UMRA’s Armchair Traveler program meets on Wednesday, September 25, via Zoom.
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From South Korea to Germany
Event Date:UMRA’s spring Armchair Traveler Program from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 24, will take us to South Korea with Marilyn DeLong and to Germany with Lynn C. Anderson. Please mark your calendars and save the date.
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Explore life above the Arctic Circle and close to home
Event Date:Explore life above the Arctic Circle with Janet and Craig Swan, and closer to home with Carol Urness when UMRA’s Armchair Traveler program meets via Zoom on Wednesday, March 6.
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Knowing Iceland
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For our Armchair Traveler Program on January 24, 2024, Kate Maple took us to western Iceland. Her photos are incredible and her descriptions are informative and poetic. She and her friend and traveling companion Michelle Schermann had an amazing experience exploring some lesser-known parts of Iceland and we had an amazing experience hearing all about it and seeing amazing pictures.
More...From northern Spain to western Africa
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Enjoy the recording of UMRA’s first Armchair Traveler program of 2023–24. Nanette Hanks shared fabulous pictures and information about the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. Tom O'Toole told us about his return visit to Sierra Leone in West Africa.
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Pieranna Garavaso and Lory Lemke's visit to Pavia and Verona, Italy
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Pieranna Garavaso and Lory Lemke, retired professors of philosophy at UMM, took us on an incredible visit to Pavia and Verona, Italy.
More...Mount Kilimanjaro and the Cleveland Way in England
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Watch the recording of the January 25, 2023 Armchair Traveler Program and be transported to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and enjoy a hike along the Cleveland Way.
More...Korea and Japan: September 2022 Armchair Traveler
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At this presentation, we traveled to South Korea with Marilyn DeLong and to Japan with Kathy Jensen and Gary Engstrand.
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