National & International Excursions (SALT)

Overnight Excursions

To register for the overnight excursions, we ask you to send the registration fee per person to SALT, 1412 Spruce Drive, Surfside Beach, SC 29575 by the deadline established for each trip. Please send your name and contact information (phone and email), the trip that you wish to go on, and a check made out to SALT. Please also email us at wnsalt22@gmail.com once you put your check in the mail so that we will know to expect it. Once we have enough participants who have registered with a deposit, we will book the venues. If the trip does not have full enrollment and is canceled, we will return your check. There are no refunds for overnight excursions unless we are able to fill your spot, so we suggest you buy travel insurance on your own.

Monday, April 6-Thursday, April 9, Savannah, GA, $899 pp/dbl, $275 single supplement

Deadline for $500 deposit is February 9. Final payment due by  March 1.

We will depart from Conway, at 10 a.m., stopping to pick up additional passengers at the Lakes at Litchfield, and then stopping again for lunch near Charleston and arriving at our hotel, Holiday Inn Express in the Savannah Historic District around 3 p.m. The next day, we will be picked up at the hotel by our private Sightseeing Trolley for a 90-minute narrated tour that includes the following: the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Forsyth Park, Historic River Street, the Andrew Low House and the City Market. This trolley doesn’t stop, but you will get a full overview of the historic district. For the rest of the day, the company provides a shuttle service to the locations we passed so that you can go and explore what interests you in more detail. On Wednesday, we will visit the Telfair Museums (the Jepson Center, the Telfair Academy, and the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters) and the SCAD Art Museum. We will get an early start on Thursday and return by 2 p.m. Costs for the trolley tour and shuttles, admission to the Telfair and SCAD Museums, motorcoach transportation to and from Savannah, lodging (double-occupancy) in the historic district, and breakfasts at the hotel are all included in the price. All lunches and dinners are on your own. Restaurants are within walking distance, or we may use the bus to go to a location not within walking distance. Driver’s tip is NOT included in the excursion fee. Activity Level 3.

Monday, May 25-Thursday, May 28, Mountain Getaway, Boone, NC, $580

Join us for a trip to a marvelous mountain cabin near Boone, NC. With five bedrooms, four baths, and 3800 square feet of living space, this home has room for all of us to relax. There are two decks with panoramic views of the mountains, a pool table, poker table, fire pit, and lovely accommodations. We are 7 miles from Blowing Rock, 7 miles to Tweetsie Railroad, 15 miles from Beech and Sugar Mountains, and close to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mountain laurel and rhododendron should be in bloom. We will split the cost of food, with Kelli and Carol preparing breakfast each day and other meals split between dining in and eating out. Please send your deposit of $300 (check made out to SALT) to 1412 Spruce Drive, Surfside Beach, SC by  March 1 to reserve your spot. Include the trip name, your name, email, and phone number with your deposit. Final payment is due by April 1. Activity Level 3. 

July 28-August 8, 2026, Salty Cruise to Alaska

Come sail with us on the Princess 10-Day Denali Explorer! The fine folks at Cruise Vacation Outlet have agreed to help us again with the booking, so if you are interested in joining us, call Mark Stoll, Senior Cruise Consultant, at 1-800-797-4635 Ext X 114, or email him at mark@cruisevacationoutlet.com and tell him you are with the SALT group and would like to book a cabin. The deposit is $250. This tour includes a cruise on the Coral Princess (from Vancouver to Anchorage, July 29-August 5) and a land tour (to Denali National Park and Mount McKinley, August 5-8). We suggest flying to Vancouver on July 28 and flying home from Anchorage on August 8. Note that flights and a hotel for July 8 are not included in the price that Mark will give you and that excursions provided by Princess Cruises may add to the base cost. (Flights are currently running around $715). The cruise includes stops in Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway. See the link above for more information. We would appreciate your emailing wnsalt22@gmail.com and telling us when you book your cabin. That way, we can keep a record of who's going and send suggestions about travel. By booking with Mark, each of you has more control over the kind of cabin and packages you want. Prices vary according to the type of cabin and date of booking.is is paragraph text. Click it or hit the Manage Text button to change the font, color, size, format, and more. To set up site-wide paragraph and title styles, go to Site Theme.