GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY CLUB MARK TWAIN’S HANNIBAL, NAUVOO and GALESBURG JUNE 7-8, 2017 * $249 PER PERSON/DOUBLE Boyhood Home & Museum * Hannibal Trolley Tour * “Mark Twain Himself” * Riverboat Dinner Cruise Historic Nauvoo Guided Tour * Galesburg Seminary Street * Orpheum Theatre * 2-hr. Amtrak ride home WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2017 Depart from Ottumwa at 7 a.m. on Hawkeye Stages motor coach and head to Hannibal for mid-morning arrival at Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. Explore the roots of Mark Twain’s genius, Becky Thatcher’s House, interactive exhibits, memorabilia plus 15 original Norman Rockwell paintings. Lunch will be at Fiddlestik’s Food & Spirits before checking into our hotel, Sleep Inn & Suites. Then it’s on to a one-hour Hannibal Trolley Tour, downtown browsing, a one-man “Mark Twain Himself” show at Planters Barn Theater, and a two -hour Mark Twain Riverboat Dinner Cruise to end the day. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2017 After breakfast at the hotel, we’ll leave Hannibal at 7:30 a.m. and cross the Mississippi River headed toward historic Nauvoo, Illinois. There will be a rest stop at the visitor center. Then a step-on guide will give us a half-hour tour of Nauvoo including a look at the magnificent Nauvoo Mormon Temple. Lunch in Galesburg will be at the Packinghouse Dining Company. Then we’ll tour the renovated, Orpheum Theatre built in 1916 as a vaudeville house where George Burns and Harry Houdini performed. An historical driving tour of Galesburg is next before you’ll be set loose in the Seminary Street Historic Commercial District (antiques and railroad museum). The Amtrak train leaves at 4:30 p.m. for our rail trip back to Ottumwa. If you miss the train, you can always ride home on the motor coach (Just kidding!) The train schedule says we’ll be back in Ottumwa at 6:45 p.m. Estimated driving time for the motor coach has a 6:40 arrival for the bus. The bus will take us back to the N. Court/E. Rochester parking lot. (OVER) Page 2 INCLUDED IN YOUR TOUR:
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY CLUB MARK TWAIN’S HANNIBAL, NAUVOO and GALESBURG JUNE 7-8, 2017 * $249 PER PERSON/DOUBLE Boyhood Home & Museum * Hannibal Trolley Tour * “Mark Twain Himself” * Riverboat Dinner Cruise Historic Nauvoo Guided Tour * Galesburg Seminary Street * Orpheum Theatre * 2-hr. Amtrak ride home WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2017 Depart from Ottumwa at 7 a.m. on Hawkeye Stages motor coach and head to Hannibal for mid-morning arrival at Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. Explore the roots of Mark Twain’s genius, Becky Thatcher’s House, interactive exhibits, memorabilia plus 15 original Norman Rockwell paintings. Lunch will be at Fiddlestik’s Food & Spirits before checking into our hotel, Sleep Inn & Suites. Then it’s on to a one-hour Hannibal Trolley Tour, downtown browsing, a one-man “Mark Twain Himself” show at Planters Barn Theater, and a two -hour Mark Twain Riverboat Dinner Cruise to end the day. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2017 After breakfast at the hotel, we’ll leave Hannibal at 7:30 a.m. and cross the Mississippi River headed toward historic Nauvoo, Illinois. There will be a rest stop at the visitor center. Then a step-on guide will give us a half-hour tour of Nauvoo including a look at the magnificent Nauvoo Mormon Temple. Lunch in Galesburg will be at the Packinghouse Dining Company. Then we’ll tour the renovated, Orpheum Theatre built in 1916 as a vaudeville house where George Burns and Harry Houdini performed. An historical driving tour of Galesburg is next before you’ll be set loose in the Seminary Street Historic Commercial District (antiques and railroad museum). The Amtrak train leaves at 4:30 p.m. for our rail trip back to Ottumwa. If you miss the train, you can always ride home on the motor coach (Just kidding!) The train schedule says we’ll be back in Ottumwa at 6:45 p.m. Estimated driving time for the motor coach has a 6:40 arrival for the bus. The bus will take us back to the N. Court/E. Rochester parking lot. (OVER) Page 2 INCLUDED IN YOUR TOUR:
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