CTAC & Voyager Trips Italy 2025 Info Session - Traverse City

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Presented by
CTAC Traverse City
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Carnegie Rotunda
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Free
Description

CTAC Italy 2025 Traverse City Information Session: Friday, October 25 at 1:00 pm in the Carnegie Rotunda.

CTAC & Voyager Trips Present: The Treasures of Northern Italy from Coast to Coast 2025

Interested in traveling to Italy with us in October 2025 and want to learn more? Join us for an informational session with event hosts: CTAC member Elaine Smiley and Voyager Trips tour guides, Erica and Doug Heise. They'll share more about the 10-day trip to Cinque Terre, Genoa, Parma, Venice, Padua, Verona, and Amarone and answer audience questions.

Closer to Petoskey? We'll be hosting an info session at CTAC - Petoskey on Thursday, October 24 at 4:00 pm. Details here.

Unable to attend in person - Join us virtually. Click here for Zoom Link

Downloadable version of trip itinerary available here or view the details on our site here.

Featuring

Doug & Erica Heise

Voyager Trips
CTAC Petoskey
voyagertrips@gmail.com
https://voyagertrips.com/

Doug and Erica are a husband and wife team that lives and works in Levanto, just outside of the Cinque Terre.  Individually and as a couple we have traveled the world and continue to do so with their three children. 

Douglas Heise is an American who has lived and worked in Italy since 2001.  Doug also works as a translator from Italian to English, especially during the winters, and writes novels.  He was awarded the inaugural PEN America Grant for Translation of Italian Literature in 2017, and his translation of Luigi Malerba’s Ithaca Forever was published in 2019 by the U of California Press.

Erica Vecchione was born and raised in Parma, Italy.  She has worked in the tourist industry and is a certified tour guide. She writes the blog vitadacasalinga.com (Life of a Housewife) and is a contributing blogger/columnist for the national newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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