Our Guides

“Your guides seem to bring out the kid in all of us.”

Our guides are carefully chosen professionals and year after year are the highest-rated aspects of our trips. They are there to take care of all the details – checking the routes one last time before the tour, arranging all the dinner and hotel details, going over the route options with you each morning, providing instruction or moral support, driving and stocking the support van, helping fix any broken equipment, repairing the blisters that sometimes occur, or arranging for little extras you might desire. They also eat with you at dinner and often show you their favorite watering hole or sunset-watching point after dinner. Most importantly, they know how to have fun, and that is contagious. All Zephyr guides are trained in CPR and First Aid and, when appropriate, are certified as inline skating instructors. Two or three of the guides listed below will accompany you on your adventure. On many of our trips we utilize additional local guides who specialize in the area’s history, language, geography or culture.

“I don't believe you could get better guides. I don't know how you do it. They are all great!”

Irene de Ruijter Liz Miller
Andrea Franklin Gary Passon
Sabine Löwenthal Giovanni Ramaccioni
Terry Lynch Christian Rusterholz
Sonya Mapp Kris Thomas
Lydia Marchand Reno Walsh
Kathy McSparran Allan Wright
Rafa Mendiguren