California Dreamin' with Austin Jenkins
Dear ETV Endowment Members,
Just in time for your 2025 travel plans, it is with great excitement that we present the day-by-day itinerary for our exclusive 9-day tour exploring California with Austin Jenkins!
This will be Austin’s fourth trip with us. For those of you who do not know Austin, he is a native of Camden, SC, and received his undergraduate degree studying biology and education at The Citadel and graduate degrees from Clemson University studying various organisms. He is an instructor for the popular SC Master Naturalist Program through Clemson Extension and the SC Wildlife Federation, where he is a former chairman and emeritus board member. Austin teaches at USC Sumter, where his courses include Environmental Biology and Natural History of South Carolina. Austin and his wife, Karin (an internist in Columbia), have three children and reside in Camden. He is an absolute delight, and we are certain you will enjoy traveling with Austin and Karin!
Austin will guide ETV Endowment members on an unforgettable tour to California May 31 - June 8, 2025. This 9-day journey features the most iconic sites in the “Golden State” along with diverse landscapes, charming towns and unforgettable experiences including a whale watching cruise in San Francisco Bay, wine tasting in the scenic Napa Valley, a stroll beneath towering California Redwoods, the thundering waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and so much more! Along the way, we’ll be staying in deluxe accommodations in prime locations, including the Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite. Sally Lane, who has guided Endowment trips since the late 90s, will join us as our Tour Director.
The price per traveler is $8,654 for a double room, which includes a $1,200 tax-deductible contribution to the ETV Endowment. The single supplement is $1,274.
Please see the itinerary and registration form for more details:
Click here for the day-by-day itinerary
Click here for the registration/deposit form
Call 877-253-2092 or email today to reserve your spot with a $1,200 non-refundable deposit for each traveler. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions. We hope you will decide to join us on this wonderful adventure!
Sincerely,
Coby Cartrette Hennecy, CPA, CFRE
Executive Director