Taking a break
Flying Jayhawks to land in Egypt
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Group plans six-day stay in Cairo, three-day Nile River cruise
by Scott Achelpohl Kansen staff writer
Trips to a favorite beach spot or ski slope are traditional for student travelers on Spring Break. The Flying Jayhawks travel a few more miles and often spend more money reaching their favorite vacation spots.
The Flying Jayhawks will spend Spring Break in the sand. The sand of Egypt.
The program, offered by the University of Kansas Alumni Association, gives alumni and associate members of the association and their families a chance to travel worldwide. During KU's Spring Break, Egypt will be the group's destination.
The cost for the trip is $3,250 per person.
You can visit
Lebanon to learn
it's $475 extra费 per person.
"Back then, we were lucky to have money to pay rent — let alone go somewhere in the spring." Sharntan said. She said college students often left school in the spring around Easter.
Nadine Shartran, Kansas City, Kan,
resident, will be on the Egypt trip, said
Spring Break did not exist during her years
in college.
Shartran said she and her husband, Jay, c. 1847 KU graduation in engineering and a 1860 PhD from Purdue University.
"We enjoy traveling and have been on 10 or 11 trips with the Flying Jayhawks," Nadine Shartran said.
Preparation for the trips is not usually troublesome, she said.
"We usually look at travel books, find out what the climates are for the place we want to visit."
often in the United States and foreign countries.
Nadine Shartran said the trip would include six days in Cairo and a three-day cruise on the Nile River. The group will see the Red Sea and its bait's tomb and treasures and the pyramids.
Jay Shartran said he and his wife had seen the exhibit of Kurt Tut's treasures in the United States and that the exhibited had interest in the couple's interest to see the country.
"I not sure I want I want to learn to speak their language but seeing their country will be valuable."
Cecil Tucker, Kiowa resident, said he was taking the trip to Egypt for the cultural education and the experience of seeing the pyramids. He said he first trip with the Flying Jawhaws.
But that did not mean he hadn't traveled, he said.
"I've been in all 50 states and countries
His greatest passion was seeing places he and only read in history books, he said.
such as Malaysia, Nepal, Australia and Japan. Tucker said, "I've been to Europe."
"I've always wanted to travel," Tucker said. "I've only done most of it the last five or six years."
Tucker said he was making special health preparations for the trip.
"We called the state health department concerning the type of medicine we would need to take on the trip," he said. "They recommended we take shots for hepatitis and we had no malaria. As required, we've been taking the tablets every week for seven weeks."
Many people did not like to leave home and saw traveling to many places as a way of adventure.
"Everyplace is different to me and has its own special history," he said.
During his travels, Tucker said, he liked shopping for antiquities. So much so, he said, that he had an entire room in his farm devoted to the collection of memorabilia.
"I told my wife I would bring back a mummy this time," he said.
KANSAN Taking a break/March 1, 1989