Pack your bags for the day or longer and join PARA for trips down the street and across the world! Travel to an array of destinations is possible through PARA’s Day Away Trips and Mini-Vacations. For prolonged R&R, try one of our extended vacations through Southern Touch Tours or Collette Vacations. Call 562-3235 for trip itineraries, prices and details not included below.
Day Away Trips
Visit Miller’s Pottery
Take a short ride up to Brent Alabama, to see some creative minds at work. Alabama Public Television has highlighted this artistic family and today we will pay a personal visit to a local family of potters. You will be able to watch a man throw a pot on the wheel and see how they finish the pottery for everyday use. Items will be available for sale from flower pots, martin pottery gourds, pitchers, churns etc. We will stop for lunch at the Sawmeal.
Date: August 16th, 2008
Time: 9:00 am
Cost: $15.00 plus dutch treat lunch
Deadline: August 12th, 2008
OK, ya’ll pack up and prepare to come the time of you life for an evening in
Date: August 22 – 23, 2008, 2008 - Also doing this trip in September
Departure Time: 9:00 am
Cost: $375.00 pp for single
$295.00 pp for double
$285.00 pp for triple
Deadline: August 11, 2008
This will be a traveling back in history as we visit several Civil War historical sites. Stops on our route will be:
Date: September 16th , 2008
Time: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Cost: $70.00 with dutch treat meal
Deadline: September 12, 2008
OK, ya’ll pack up and prepare to come the time of you life for an evening in
Departure Time: 9:00 am
Cost: $375.00 pp for single
$295.00 pp for double
$285.00 pp for triple
Deadline: September 12, 2008
We will travel to the
Date: September 26th, 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $65.00 plus dutch treat lunch
Deadline: September 23rd, 2008
Rural Studio Tour
This is a fascinating tour of progress meeting the Black Belt.
Date: September 30th , 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $30.00 plus dutch treat lunch
Deadline: September 25th, 2008
Scarecrows in the Garden @
Come and enjoy the beauty of the fall gardens and explore the Scarecrows in the Garden. Approximately 20 scarecrows will be strategically placed throughout the gardens, you may vote on your choice!
Date: October 3rd, 2008
Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: $18.00 with dutch treat lunch
Deadline: September 29, 2008
More than just a flea market, it is the South’s finest Arts & Crafts show. Come join us and get a head start on Christmas shopping at this wondrous bi-annual event that attracts over 1,000 superior artists and craftsmen with in walking of the downtown area.
Date: October 9th , 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $60 .00
Deadline: October 1st, 2008
Information on this trip will be available after mid July.
Date: October 17th – 18th , 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $ $375.00 pp/double occupancy (most food included) 3 Events
$335.00 pp/double 2 Events
Registration Deadline: September 12 to insure event selection
Covered Bridge Walk & Fall Walk at
We will travel up Friday evening to
Date: October 24th – 25th , 2008
Departure Time: 8:30 am
Cost: $165 .00 (includes one night lodging, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch @the lodge)
Deadline: October 10th, 2008
Birmingham Museum of Art – Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit
The BMA will host one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci to be loaned to a
Date: October 30th , 2008
Departure Time: 9:00 am
Cost: $ 18.00 with a dutch treat lunch at the Terrace Café’
Deadline: October 20th, 2008
Moss Rock Festival Celebrating Nature & Open spaces through Art & Design (
Date: November 2nd , 2008
Departure Time: 12:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost: $18 .00
Deadline: October 27th, 2008
Frontier Day at Fort Toulouse near Wetumpka
There will reenactments of
Date: November 8th , 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $55 .00
Deadline: October 31st, 2008
A memorial trip to New Orleans
After celebrating Veteran’s Day, we will travel to the Big Easy to rest and enjoy the sights. We will visit the national
Date: November 12 - 13 , 2008
Departure Time: 8:00 am
Cost: $235.00 pp/double, plus Dutch treat meals
$220.00 pp w/o aquarium visit
Deadline: October 31, 2008
Christmas in the Country @ Opryland in
Opryland group tours has booked us a wonderful package which consists of the following:
2 Nights at the Radisson
The
The Louise Mandrell Dinner Show
The Hall of Trees
Treasures for the Holidays (arts and crafts for Christmas shopping)
And tickets to “Ice” where all the Japanese ice carvers display their creations.
You must book early!
Date: December 19th – 20th, 2008
Cost: $375.00 pp double plus meals You May put down a $100 deposit
Departure Time: 9:00 am
Deadline: October 6th, 2008
Extended
Dates: October 7 – 14, 2008
8 days; 11 meals
Highlights:
Rates: Double $2,039 pp
Single $2,739
Triple $2,009
Tropical
Dates: November 5 – 13, 2008
9 days 17 meals
Highlights:
Rates: Double $2,099 pp
Single $2,599
Triple $2,069 pp
Dates: December 4, 2008
5 days; 5 meals
Highlights: Broadway Show, Greenwich Village, Wall Street, Tavern on the Green, Little
Rates: Double $2,909 pp
Single $4,459
Triple $2,859 pp
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March 14th – 25th, 2009
April 18th – 29th, 2009
May 2nd – 15th, 2009
Cultures of
14 day tour
Excursions (Southern Touch
Autumn Getaway to the Belterra Resort & Spa
Date: October 20 - 25, 2008
Cost: Double $875.00 pp
Autumn in the Smoky Mountains & Pigeon Forge
Date: October 22 - 24, 2008
Cost: Double $525.00 pp
An upscale
Date: November 7 - 9, 2008
Cost: Double $775.00
A
Date: November 29 – December 9, 2008
Cost: Double $3,525.00 pp Outside cabin
The Best of Popular Branson at Christmas
Date: December 3 - 8, 2008
Cost: Double $990.00 pp
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