Category: Los Angeles

Our next quarterly meeting of the TCC Charter Chapter (Los Angeles/Orange County) will be held on Saturday, June 10, at the historic Tam O’Shanter Inn in Los Angeles, where popular presenter Bill Altaffer will share his adventures and incredible photographs of The Altay, the mountain range in Central and East Asia where Russia, Mongolia, China…

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Long-time TCC member Donald Parrish, of Chicago, was presented our club’s ultimate award – a crystal-based, solar-powered, rotating globe – for his achievement in completing our Country List of all 325 destinations. Applauded by nearly 60 members and guests at our Charter Chapter’s March 11 meeting in Laguna Beach, Parrish earned this recognition when he…

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Our next quarterly meeting of the TCC Charter Chapter (Los Angeles/Orange County) will be held on Saturday, March 11, at the Mozambique Steakhouse in Laguna Beach, where popular presenters Diana and Dennis Trombley will share adventures and stories on the Galapagos Islands, Colombia and Ecuador. Theirs will be an in-depth program which includes the new…

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An overflow crowd of 90 people from as far away as New Zealand, Hawaii, Texas, Minnesota, Missouri, New York and North Carolina joined local Californians at our Annual International Holiday Luncheon in Beverly Hills  on Dec. 10, 2016. Past President Kevin Hughes presented a fascinating video documentary of his 66-day circumnavigation of Antarctica. Six new…

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At our Annual December Holiday Luncheon at Lawry’s The Prime Rib in Beverly Hills, the guest speaker will be former TCC President Kevin Hughes, who will present a fascinating film documentary on his historic 66-day odyssey around the “White Continent” aboard the Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov. This “Circumnavigation of Antarctica” will feature the historical sites…

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In June, TCC members from Los Angeles, Orange County, and a large contingent from San Diego met at the Grand in Long Beach. For a change of pace from a formal speaker, members brought a favorite article of clothing with a memorable story to tell. At the September lunch at Fleming’s in Newport Beach, the…

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The Southern California TCC Chapter will have two more meetings in 2016: Sept. 10 at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse in Newport Beach, and Dec. 10 at Lawry’s The Prime Rib in Beverly Hills. More information will be posted soon, but meanwhile you can email Immediate Past President Michael Sholer (mgsholer@att.net) for more information.

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At the TCC March luncheon in Newport Beach, San Francisco TCC member Lillie Echevarria gave an AV presentation on the five Stan countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan — which she visited during 21 days in the fall of 2014. She also mentioned a possible sixth Stan country— Karakalpakstan, autonomous territory in Uzbekistan.…

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We all love to tell travel stories, especially those with a twist. So we are inviting TCC members to dig through your closets to find that unique piece of apparel from a foreign land and bring it, along with an associated story, to our June 11 luncheon in Long Beach. Because our own personal adventures…

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At the December TCC Southern California lunch in Beverly Hills, the adventuress Pam Barrus highlighted her three-week hike this past summer along Great Britain’s Thames Path. The entertaining presentation included the history along the way, and photos of the bucolic countryside today as well as photos of paintings of the earlier life along the 184-mile…

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