Adventure Awaits
Travel across town - Across the country - Around the world
262-895-9001
Adventure Awaits
Travel across town - Across the country - Around the world
262-895-9001
Welcome to WANDERLUSt tours
Kris and Herb Jekel are the owners of Wanderlust Tours and your personal hosts. With over 40 years of expert travel planning they are experts in the joys and riggers of travel. Their agency was founded on the desire to provide the best in personal service and make your vacation or tour an exciting, rewarding adventure for you.
Whether its around the block or around the world they are always here for you.
Evita - March 9, 2022
Drury Lane Theatre - Oakbrook Terrace, Ill
Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Weber's smash hit show EVITA is the riveting true-life story of Eva Paron, the 2nd wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve unimaginable fortune and fame. Despite widespread controversy, her passion changed a nation forever!
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DEPARTS - March 27, 2022
Charleston, Savannah and Beaufort
Free home or local pickup and return - 11 Meals (4 dinners and 7 breakfasts)
Spend three nights in Beaufort, whose entire downtown has been designated an historic district, located at the heart of the Sea Islands - Guided tour of historic Charleston, South Carolina, one of America’s most beautiful cities -
Tour of Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens, one of America’s oldest working, living plantations - Tour Penn Center Museum and learn about St. Helena Island, rich in Gullah culture - Visit Hunting Island State Park with its pristine sandy beach, abundant wildlife and historic lighthouse - Enjoy a narrated horse-drawn carriage tour of Beaufort’s historic district - Cast off on a narrated cruise along the peaceful waters of the Beaufort River in search native wildlife - Trolley tour of Savannah, the city General William T. Sherman deemed “too beautiful to burn” - Take the Kazoobie Kazoo Factory Tour and make your own kazoo - Guided tour of Great Smoky Mountain National Park -
Visit to Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery in downtown Gatlinburg - Dinner and entertainment at the Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Show, featuring a rip-roarin’ Smoky Mountain show and a full Southern homestyle feast
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RIDERS IN THE SKY - APRIL 29, 2022
Schauer Center - Hartford, WI
Winners of two Grammy Awards "Riders in the Sky" stand "hats and shoulders above the rest of the purveyors of "Comedy and Western!" For more than 30 years, they have kept the flame passed on by Gene Autry and Roy Rodgers, becoming modern day icons with their wacky humor, western wit and cowboy way of life.
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Ohio amish country adventure - JUNE 7-10, 2022
3 Nights at the Berlin Encore Hotel & Suites
There is a place in Ohio where people live in a much simpler time. There are no traffic jams, limited technology and family always comes first. Tour through the world’s largest Amish Community and experience a simpler way of life. Meet the local artists and artisans and enjoy a show at the Amish Country Theater. You will return home with a new found respect for the Amish lifestyle and a better understanding of Amish beliefs.
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montana & glacier national park - JUl 17-24, 2022
Featuring The Gates of the Mountains
12 Meals: 7 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 4 dinners
• Round trip airport transfers • Visit the historic mining town of Wallace, Idaho, the “Silver Capital of the World” • Spend two nights at the historic Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier • Travel the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road in a “jammer” Red Bus through Glacier National Park • Enjoy a relaxing cruise on Upper Waterton Lake in Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park • Have lunch at the Prince of Wales Hotel in a romantic alpine chalet atmosphere
• Trace the footsteps of the two of the nation’s greatest explorers at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center • Visit The History Museum in Great Falls
• Embark on a historical boat cruise on the Missouri River to the Gates of the Mountain • Visit the capital city of Helena and spend free time in the Last Chance Gulch area • Tour the Miracle of America Museum whose collection
of “Americana” numbers in the thousands • Take to the water for a narrated cruise on scenic Flathead Lake, the largest natural fresh water lake west of the Great Lakes.
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MACKINAC ISLAND AND THUNDER BAY - aug 9-12, 2022
Three Nights of First Class Lodging
This great getaway to Northern Michigan features a night on Mackinac Island along with a Horse-Drawn Carriage Ride and lunch at the Grand Hotel. You will feel like you have stepped back in time to the 1800's. Then head to the scenic Thunder Bay Resort for one night where you learn about Elk and enjoy a Gourmet Dinner.
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pride of poland - Sep 20-28, 2022
Escorted by Kris and Herb Jekel
11 Meals: 7 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners
• Two nights in Gdansk • Full-day sightseeing tour of Gdansk with visits
to St. Mary’s Church and Sopot Pier • Visit to the Castle of the Teutonic Order of Knights in Malbork • Two nights in Warsaw • Full-day sightseeing tour of Warsaw with visits to the Royal Castle and Wilanów Palace • A visit to Częstochowa to visit Jasna Góra, the most important Marian shrine in Poland • Three nights in Kraków • Walking tour of Kraków with a local, English speaking guide with visits to Wawel Cathedral and St. Mary’s Church
excursion to the Wieliczka Salt Mine • Included excursion to the Auschwitz–Birkenau Concentration Camp Museum • Visit to the Jewish Quarter of Kazimierz
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BILTMORE ESTATE & ASHEVILLE - OCT 16-21, 2022
GUIDED TOUR OF ASHEVILLE, NC
Motorcoach Transportation
5 nights lodging - Including 3 nights in the Asheville area
8 meals - 5 breakfasts and 3 dinners
Guided tour of Asheville, NC
Full day visit to the Biltmore Estate
Guided drive along Blue Ridge Parkway
Visit to the famous Folk Art Center
Visit to Blue Ridge Parkway Visitors Center
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portugal & douro river cruise - APR 19-29, 2023
Experience the charm of Lisbon, Portugal
22 Meals: 9 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 8 dinners
• Visit two countries • Two-night hotel stay and touring in Lisbon,
Portugal before cruising • Seven-night cruise on the Emerald Radiance
• First-class service by an English-speaking crew • Onboard Activity Manager will support all EmeraldACTIVE excursions and host daily onboard wellness activities, games, classes and evening entertainment • Shore excursions with English-speaking local guides • All gratuities included • Personal listening device for onboard excursions • Many meals included onboard with a variety of international cuisine • Complimentary regional wines, beer and soft
drinks accompany onboard lunches and dinners • Complimentary bottled water in your stateroom • Complimentary WiFi onboard • Variety of onboard evening entertainment
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