Permission to proceed - GRANTED!

We have been granted administrative permission to proceed with our planning and recruiting stage of our Go India 2017 service tour!  This leaves just one hurdle which is board approval.  Fortunately, we bring a healthy set of credentials for international travel to the table.  Here is my travel resume:
1.  Two summers of my childhood were spent in Germany where I learned to speak fluent German.
2. 1986 I spent three months traveling through Brazil with my mother on a journey to discover the country she emigrated to from Germany after WWII.  There I learned to speak some Portuguese and became more savvy with regard to "off the beaten path" travel.  I often share my stories of this trip with my students.
3.  I have traveled through Europe extensively and numerous time, including France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Spain, England, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, and many more.
4. I have traveled by train, bus, ship (North Sea, Brazil, and Greece/Turkey), plane, rental car, bicycle, on foot, and more during my international travel.
5.  My mother has been an international tour director for 22 years, speaks five languages fluently, and as a result of her job, my children have traveled to approximately 30 countries each from Europe, to South Africa, Australia to China, South America to ...well...you name it, as junior escorts each summer since they were the age of 8.  They are now 14 and 16 and will be joining us.
6.  My family spent Christmas in the Amazon jungle a few years back.  Literally, in the jungle.  Many stories to tell!
7. My husband and I have trekked through the Himalayas, surfed through Western Australia, bicycled (last summer) through Tuscany, Italy, and whitewater rafted/bicycled through Costa Rica.
8.  Travel has long been a part of my life and that of my family.  I was born into travel, and continue to travel overseas with as much regularity as my pocketbook will allow - at least every two years.  I know that some people are afraid to leave their homes, but the world is filled with wonderful people and flavors and customs and adventures.  I would never bring your children anyplace I wouldn't bring my own children.  EF Tours, likewise, would not bring students anyplace that isn't safe.  While events around the world dominate our thoughts and threaten to fill us with fear, the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of the world is safe for exploration and healthy for all.  What's more, it gives our children a clearer picture of who we are as Americans, to others and to ourselves.  India will change their lives.  It will make them better, wiser, more compassionate, hungry to know more, broader in their thinking, curious, grateful, more informed...well let's let them tell us - when they return:)