Category: Arkansas

The next meeting of the Arkansas TCC Chapter will be on Saturday, Nov. 18, at noon. It will be held in a private conference room at Benihana. The manager, Shapoor Karimi, has been kind enough to arrange if you get there and they try to send you to the performance tables. This is adjacent to the…

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The Arkansas TCC Chapter met on Saturday, May 6, in the private conference area at Samantha’s Tap Room & Wood Grill. A presentation with photos and videos was made by Steven Clift regarding a Himalayan helicopter expedition in November to eight of the 12 basecamps over 8,000-meter peaks. The topic following was appropriately  “A Mountain of…

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An informal mini-meeting of the Arkansas TCC Chapter was held on Jan. 20 at Guillermo’s Coffee House in the conference room. All chapter members were invited to meet two new members, Henk Klipscheer and Tim Gaughran, and to discuss travel options to Madagascar and Seychelles. This was a very eventful three-hour “hard to leave testimonies…

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The fall 2016 meeting of the Arkansas Chapter of TCC was held on Nov. 5, following lunch at Samanthas Restaurant in Little Rock. We began with tributes to former coordinators: Anna Clift, who passed away this year and Walter Kann in 2014. The topic, “Regrets, I’ve had a few,” had members listing sights and areas…

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The fall 2016 meeting of the Arkansas TCC Chapter will be held on Nov. 5. The meeting will be held at Samantha’s Tap Room & Wood Grill at noon. The topic will be “Regrets – I Have a Few” – borrowing from Sinatra – as Dolena points out. She is sure everyone has more than one…

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The TCC is saddened to report the unexpected passing of our Arkansas co-coordinator, Anna Asiatidou Clift. Born in Athens, Greece, she worked for Olympic Airways, and met her husband Steve on a flight to Egypt in 1973. They continued to correspond – Anna with her newly learned English; Steve from Arkansas – eventually enjoying a…

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The spring 2016 meeting of the Arkansas TCC Chapter was held on April 30 at Samantha’s. The topic of discussion was “random acts of kindness extended abroad.” Included were courtesies from four corners of the world, including a village on the Mekong River on the border of Cambodia and Vietnam. Travelers were stuck with a…

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 The next Arkansas Chapter meeting is tentatively planned for Saturday, April 30. We welcome everyone’s input on this. Samanthas worked well for lunch at the Fall meeting in November. The topic will be “Random Acts of Kindness Extended by Locals in Our Travels.” —Anna & Steven Clift, Area Coordinators

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The Novermber 2015 meeting of the Arkansas TCC Chapter was held at Samantha’s Tap Room and Wood Grill. The topic of discussion was “Health Issues Encountered Abroad.” Included “painfully” were cholera in Mongolia; bloody diarrhea related to Nile water ingestion; schistosomiasis in Mali; horseback falls/broken bones in Patagonia; chikungunga fever in the Caribbean; donkey treks…

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