(working draft - under construction)

We are in the planning stages only. Subject to change. 

                 

Yale Alumni Tour de France 2016

Group 1:  September 9-26th

Group 2:  September 1-17th

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 Yale Alumni Tour de France - September 2016:   

 We will repeat our successful Yale 1963/64 Tour de France 2015, expanding participation invitations to include members of Yale '61, '62 and '65.

      (Paris 5 days, Burgundy barge 7 days, Normandy 3 days, and Loire Valley/Versailles 2 days)

 

There are only three easy steps to reserve your position on the Tour, plus one more step 4) to state your preferences for your own comfort and safety.

1) Review the Travel Guide  <--   click here   (note it is a large 28 page document that may require 1-2 minutes download time).

2) TravelSafe Insurance Coverage   <--   click here to review the Terms and Conditions for your TravelSafe    travel insurance purchased separately.

3)  Registration Form   <--  click here to submit your reservation to guarantee you a place on the Tour.

4)  My Preferences   <-- click here to tell us your preferences for the Tour  (including dining menu preferences, diet restrictions, any mobility restrictions, emergency contacts, cell phone usage,  and bed. arrangements)

Then come enjoy 17 fabulous days in France in September of 2016 with another 40 of your Yale Alumni colleagues of our 1961-1965 generation.

 

         

  

     

       

           

        

       

  

Dear Yale College Alumni and Travel Partners,          

You are invited to join either of two 17 day tours of France in September of 2016. The tour is organized in two separate barge cruises at the beginning and end with eight days in Normandy and Paris together.

Group Tour 1:  September  9-26th      Normandy/Paris/Burgundy Barge 2/Loire Valley/Versailles

Group Tour 2:  September  1-17th       Loire Valley/Burgundy Barge 1/Versailles/Normandy/Paris

Group Tour 2 will only be committed after Group Tour 1 capacity of 19 has been confirmed.

Our objectives for this trip include:

1)      Provide the opportunity for a large group of us with Yale and generational ties through Yale College classes of 1961/62/63/64 and 65 to spend close personal time together for up to 10 days in France on tour to Normandy, Loire Valley, Versailles and Paris.

2)      Provide the opportunity to enjoy additional relaxed quality time together on more intimate canal barges for seven days in southern Burgundy before and after the group time together.

3)      Take advantage of the opportunity to have Yale 1963 classmate and world class military author, professor and historian Wick Murray lead us on a very personalized tour of Normandy.

This tour is modeled after the very successful CEF Yale Alumni Tour de France in September of 2015 during which 50 Yale 1963 and 1964 classmates, spouses and travel partners toured together over 28 days.   

The tour operator is Charity Enablers Foundation, a California 501c3 non-profit formed in 2000 and chaired by Jon Larson, Yale 1963 and operated by his family as the Larson Family Foundation.   CEF has CAE Continuing Adult Education as its primary mission.   www.lff1.org

Each 17 day tour is priced at $9,000 per person double occupancy (excluding airfare and travel insurance).   Add 25% for single occupancy. 

Travel insurance runs $40.00 per $1,000 so $9,000 of cancellation insurance per person will cost an additional $360 per person purchased separately through the group discount plan offered for our tour by TravelSafe.  The cost of the insurance itself is non-refundable by either TravelSafe or CEF.

Deposits (non-refundable through CEF) are required by the following dates.    20% October 2015     20% January 2016       60% July 2016

Travel insurance through TravelSafe is purchased separately for full recovery of all advance deposits in the event of cancellation due to unplanned medical conditions for yourselves traveling or any immediate family members which prevent you from traveling.

Please call Jon Larson at 415-435-3222 with any questions or to confirm your reservation.                                  

 Or email   jlarson@irpllc.net .   We hope you can join us on this epic adventure, our Yale Alumni Tour of France in September of 2016.

Best regards,

 Jon Larson, Yale 1963   Chairman, Charity Enablers Foundation    Official Tour Director

 

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Songs of Yale....

The Whiffenpoof Song  

Eli Yale - Bulldog Fight Song

                                     

Bright College Years  (performed by the Yale Glee Club)

Bright College years, with pleasure rife, the shortest, gladdest years of life; 
How swiftly are ye gliding by!  Oh, why doth time so quickly fly?

 The seasons come, the seasons go,  the earth is green or white with snow,
But time and change shall naught avail,  to break the friendships formed at Yale.

 In after years, should troubles rise, to cloud the blue of sunny skies,
How bright will seem, through mem'ry's haze, those happy, golden, bygone days!

Oh, let us strive that ever we, may let these words our watch-cry be,
Where'er upon life's sea we sail:

 "For God, for Country and for Yale!"

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