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WnJrBYREEPI~SSWEDNESDAYL MARCH 16, 198 AG I ~IF IME 7711W« '~C WAZ?/A///ç$P5 2X24/7 /theDV &FTENX L4CE With winter break upon us and scores of people gone south to escape the end of winter blahs, its nice ta, dream of ail the places you've always wanted ta go. While my wife is quite comfortable lying on a beach for hours with a book, my own inclinations are more exotic. Unlike most Canadians, I have neyer been to Florida or anywhere in the Southern United States or the Caribbean. But I have been to O Mt. McKinley in Alaska, Dawson City in the Yukon, the outports of Newfoundland, and the virgin forests of Vancouver Island. rve aIso been ta India and that trip in 1980 got me on the mailing list of Lindblad travel........ r Lindblad is a company which packages tours ta the exotic / Ï corners of the globe from Antarctica ta Ibet ta the Galapogos -i Islands. The tours are in relatively small groups, are first class and expensive., Every few months, I receive a large gloesy t brochure describing in vivid phrases and gorgeous full colour yet ..... another adventure tc, some fer-off destination. Ah! ta be in a warxn sunny land trekking acroes mountain valleys and deserts. But, like most dreams, these end up in the garbage. But recently, I happened to find in the pile on my desk asmall brochure which listed very briefly ail of their destinations. The very cheapest, going at just under $2,000, was _______________________________________ 12 days in Morocco; the most expensive- was from $8,445 for a- 32-day motor coach trip along the Great Silk route cf Central Asia through the Soviet Union and China, (Moscow, Bukhara, j Samarkand, Tashkent, Dzhambul, Aima Ata, Huorgos, k Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Lanzhou, Beijing - now that's my idea cf a holiday). And those prices are ail in American dollars. For sheer day by day extravagance, nothing quite matches eight days in Vienna over New Years for only $3,999(US). Lindblad je for those who want something very different. dM Not ýsurprisingly, their cientele is wealthy. Onthe trip I teck ta India, I think I was'probably the only non-millionaire in the group, and alsc.,ôlie yiget. In'a group cf,*abouit twenty-flve there were a good many that were well inta their eighties, but they were young in spirit, very well-preserved and quite active for their age. The trip was planned ta coincide with an eclipse cf the sun which was te cross India on February 16, 1980 and that was my purpose in being there. Most cf Lindblad tours stress f some aspect cf the natural or culturel enviromnent and experts accompany them ta explain the phenemena being viewed. The eclipse was only a culmnation cf a whirlwind two-week tour of India and Nepal which teck in as much as possible cf the cultural diversity of that ancient civilization. Most Lindblad tours, though, empasize the natural world - the wildlife cf the mountains, rivers and cceans cf the worlcl,BURLOGCN EST ETSUI,14 and close proximity te that wildlife ie ene cf their trademarks. URLDECNTES ETSO H,14 Fer example, the trips they take ta the Galapages, Islands One cf Whitby's flnest old homes ie Burr Lodge on Centre Street Scuth at Keith Street. (the tiny archipelage in the Paciflc Ocean where the discevery ef It was built in 1854-55 as the residence'cf James Wallace, the contracter whc built the several new species led Darwin ta the theory cf evluticn) are Centennial Building as the Ontario County Court House. It was later cwned by Chester taken in a relatively small ship with a liiited number cf cabins Draper, cwner cf Whitby harbcir frcmn 1863 te 1876. The fine verandah surrcunding the One of their most popular destinations is the national gaine area Chamber conference at Peterborough. parka of East Africa. Other companies bing touiste here toc, a Jim Gartehore, president cf the WYhitby Kinsmen Club, has been elected Deputy but none with quite the saine flair. Patrons rough it in tente. In Governor cf District 8, in charge cf co.crdinating the activities cf 15 Kinsmen Clubs. the Masai Mara Game Preserve the tente have four poster bede * Whitby Public Utilities Commission chairman Earle "Jake" Bryant is elected district r (for the mosquita, netting te keep the insecte cut) and the camp vice-president cf the Ontario Municipal Electric Association. is equipped with a bar and a swimming pool. The Land Rover drivers are appropniately schooled in navigating the 100 YEARS AGO j lees-accessible unspoiled areas cf the reserve - places that the from the Friday, March 16, 1888 edition cf the common touriste neyer get te see. Wealth has its perke. WHITBY CHRONICLE My recellections cf that trip te India were, cf course, very special, net because I wae mixing with the elite but because cf * A procession and grand banquet marked the Salvation Army's third anniversary the opportunity ta, experience a vastly different culture with a a The defendants in the Myrtle shooting fracas cf Dec. 14, 1887 were ail acquitted and group who like myseîf were there te see and ta learn. Althcugh the case dismissed. the over-stated elegance cf the five-star hoteles was hardly MY a Ross Brothers, clethiers, offer a pair cf black kid gloves for 75* cents. W.G. Walters is style cf travel, the trip offered all the necessary opportunities ta, selling silk for 15 cents a yard. mingle amonget the people: iich and poor, Hindus and Meeleme. a If Whitby Collegiate Institute does net build a gymnasium by Sept. 1, it will lose its ...And so, while others head for Floida, I dream cf collegiate statue and provincial grante. Samnarkand. __________________________________