We are moving forward quickly with our new Exploratory Adventures. These Exploratory Adventures are first-run tours to less-traveled destinations in small groups, generally led by our founder and owner Allan Wright. We recently added two new Exploratory tours to our schedule for this coming August – plus we have two more already on the schedule. Continue Reading →
Author: Allan
What Are Exploratory Adventures?
In some years – but not all – we offer a special group tour we call an Exploratory Adventure. On these trips a small number of travelers will be joining Zephyr Adventures owner Allan Wright as he scouts the tour in person for the first time. Last year we ran a hiking tour in Georgia Continue Reading →
Are You Sick of Surveys? Complete Ours!
We consumers are over-inundated with surveys. The clerk at my grocery store hands me my receipt, circles a portion of it, and tells me I can win $500 if I complete the survey. We get sent surveys for plane flights, car rentals, and hotel stays. I pay my water bill and the water company sends Continue Reading →
Self-Guided Tours
We at Zephyr Adventures have been offering self-guided tours for decades but in 2025 are focusing on them by offering eight new self-guided hiking and biking itineraries. Self-guided tours are very popular among Europeans. What is a self-guided tour? We make your hotel reservations, provide route directions via GPS, bike rental on biking tours, and Continue Reading →
Crowd-Free Travel
I just read an article on “crowd-free travel”, which the Adventure Travel Trade Association is highlighting as a trend for 2025. We are all in. Travel shut down in 2020 due to the pandemic. It rebounded domestically in 2021 but boomed in 2022 and has remained high. This has affected our business. We run fewer Continue Reading →
Travel to Bolivia
One of the joys of working for an adventure travel company is being able to set up new tours around the world in locations where we ourselves want to travel. Bolivia, the landlocked country in the middle of South America, is one of those destinations. Announcing a brand new Bolivia Multisport Exploratory Adventure from August Continue Reading →
Arizona Pickleball Vacation!
We ran our first ever pickleball vacation recently and it was a huge success. Look at some of these comments from our 11 attendees: The key to our pickleball vacation is that it is more about the vacation than the pickleball. Yes, the pickleball is fun. Even the four pickleball novices in our group had Continue Reading →
Nervous About Joining a Group Tour?
I first met traveler Brandon Twine in 2022 on our Switzerland Adventure. He was on his first tour with us and his first group tour ever, even though his wife, Carol Guttzeit, had been traveling with us since 2007! Brandon has since traveled with us in 2023 to hike along Hadrian’s Wall and this year Continue Reading →
Improve the World and Have Fun Doing It
What is the Zephyr Adventures raison d’être, French for “reason for existing”? To improve the world and have fun doing it. I started two small companies in college and after getting an MBA in entrepreneurship, was determined to start a company that would become my full-time job. However, I was particular. I wanted to create Continue Reading →
Our Number One Tip Before Booking a Tour
What is our number one tip before you book a tour with a tour company? Contact the company! We receive probably 95% of our bookings via the Internet without ever having spoken to the traveler. In many cases, we have never even emailed with the individual. And to be honest, that works for us! But Continue Reading →