And I got paired with another single traveler if I couldn't find a travel buddy. Mostly, it worked out OK. I could not find any other travel company that did the Piero della Francesca Trail for artists and art lovers...
On my last RS trip there was a delightful couple who were both PolySci profs at Brown University. The husband happened to mention in passing that his wife was a MacArthur Fellow and I did a double take! I said to her OMG you won a MacArthur? I was impressed. She was a bit shy about it...turns out she written this great book on women in the US labor movement in the '30s. They gave her $500,000 and she could do whatever she wanted with it. She said she continued with her scholarly research into the issue. I asked her how her fellow faculty members felt about it...she said they were nice but she could tell they were a little pissed...I loved it!
This program is similar to the RS one, but this one is longer...I traveled once before with Smithsonian's "bargain" program but it has since become pricier. I would imagine they have a very well educated folks interested in culture and history, and those people usually turn out to be Dems!
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