The Date Is Set!

Greetings from the Midwest!



The date is getting closer and closer...I really haven't had much time to get prepared for the trip as we have been quite busy traveling with many of our student groups all over the country. We have however gotten a chance to book flights from MPLS to JFK and JFK to PRA. So I am very excited to see this, and now the hardest part is just waiting patiently for the day to get here!

In the free time I have had to look into the Czech or more appropriately when I was screwing around I found this hilarious news brief from the Onion on the Franz Kafka International Airport in Prague. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pragues_franz_kafka_international it is a little discouraging to those who will be heading there. According to the new brief I wont even make it out the doors and most of the moving sidewalks lead to dead ends. For my sake I hope this is not true!

So in the next 4 weeks I will be digging in and researching more about the country to prepare myself for my big trip. Hopefully at least learn a few basic phrases in Czech to help me find

"the water closet"

More to come....

7 Weeks to go!

My Name is Dan "DJ" Erickson Jr. and I am the Director of Student Sales at Supreme Travel LLC. We are a Group Travel Company out of the Midwest, specializing in group travel planning for Middle and High School Music programs as well as Bank Groups, VFW's ,and Senior Groups.
The purpose of this Blog is to update my status and my preparations for my trip to the Czech Republic. I will be making updates once a week until my trip, and then try to make daily updates on my progress when I am actually in country.

Well here I am 7 weeks out. The anxiety level is building, but so it the excitement! I am so thankful that I have been presented with an opportunity like this by our company to experience all that the Czech Republic has to offer.

For those of you who do not know the purpose of this trip, I will be heading to the Czech Republic on a Familiarization Trip via the Czech Tourism Dept. in an effort to promote the country to Tour Operators in the US and around the World. We will visiting several different destinations around the country. Those of us selected to go were given several options as far as attractions and excursion. The itinerary I chose is listed below, with corresponding links to the attractions / hotels that we will be staying at.

1.ACTIVE HOLIDAY

Prague – Milovice- military area, drive in a tank, target practice

Bohemian Paradise, hiking or mountain biking, Yellow swimming bath in Malá Skála
http://www.cesky-raj.info/en/

Castle Hruba Skala – Janske Lazne (accommodation in the Hotel Omnia)
http://www.hrubaskala.cz/en

Pec pod Snezkou (Relax park) – Harrachov (hiking, waterfalls, Hotel Horizont)
http://www.pecpodsnezkou.cz/EN/index.php

Spindleruv Mlyn (accommodation in the Hotel Harmony)
http://www.spindleruv-mlyn.com/en/.