Posts by Emily Carter
On a river cruise day, your group changes hands three times. First the bus hands everyone to the dock. Then th...
Watkins Glen State Park Bus Trips: Planning a Group With Different Walking Abilities
Ten minutes into the Gorge Trail, most groups have already split in two. The stone stairs start early, the spr...
Letchworth State Park Group Bus Trips: Choosing Stops and Confirming Vehicle Access
Letchworth State Park is not a place you drive into, park once, and walk around. It is a long, narrow park str...
Strong Museum Group Bus Trips: Planning Transportation for Families and Schools
Strong Museum group bus trips come in two very different shapes. At 9:45 on a Tuesday morning, a yellow school...
National Baseball Hall of Fame Bus Trips: A Group Organizer’s Timeline
Cooperstown is a small lakeside village of narrow streets, brick storefronts and front porches, and it welcome...
Howe Caverns Group Bus Trips: Planning Tour Times and Passenger Pickups
Once a tour group rides the elevator 156 feet down into Howe Caverns, nobody calls them back up early. The und...
Adirondack Railbike Group Trips: Planning Bus Connections Around Reserved Time Slots
Here is the detail that trips up most organizers: rail bikes are not sold by the busload. They are sold by the...
Lake George Steamboat Group Trips: Coordinating Bus and Cruise Departure Times
At noon on a July Saturday, a steamboat in Lake George Village backs away from the dock on schedule. It does n...
Saratoga Race Day Bus Trips: Organizing Group Arrival and Return Transportation
One racetrack, three completely different bus days. The picnic-table crew needs to be through the gate at 7 a....
Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site Group Trips: Planning a Hyde Park Bus Itinerary
Hyde Park, New York, packs three national park sites, the first presidential library in the country, and a str...
West Point Group Visits by Bus: Questions to Confirm Before Finalizing Transportation
West Point is not a museum campus with a parking lot out front. It is an active Army installation, and its own...
Culinary Institute of America Group Visits: Transportation Planning From the Hudson Valley
A meal at the Culinary Institute of America runs on a kitchen's clock, not yours. The restaurants in Hyde Park...