Custom Tours

The Perfect Guides - Our staff is able to make your traveling and vacationing dreams come true. Experienced from what we already know and where we’ve already been, you will be in imaginative and caring hands. Years of traveling has built enthusiastic energy in our hearts. We’re your guides, your friends - we’ll put you in a comfortable atmosphere and engulf you in YOUR interests.

Need Some Ideas? Check out our activities list for a few options that we’ve already thought up.

Translation Assistance: Break the language barrier when you travel! We have English, Spanish and Japanese speaking staff able to assist you or your group in your adventures to the far reaches of the world.

Areas and themes of expertise

The Great Lakes region and the hidden treasures of Wisconsin
        Wisconsin is in the heart of the Midwest, bordered by water on three sides. The Great Lakes on the north and east borders create wonderful opportunities for water sports like fishing, sailing or sea kayaking. The Mississippi River, on the west, runs clear down to the Gulf of Mexico and is one of the USA’s remarkable features. Wisconsin’s inland diversity stretches from the silver birch along the shores of Lake Superior to the hardwood forests of Southwestern Wisconsin.
        We know this area well, and offer you a world class tour. Visit hot trout fishing spots. Learn to rock climb. See how award-winning cheese is made. If you’re after a unique cultural vacation we’ve got you covered. Our knowledgeable local guides will put together an enjoyable trip for you, whatever your Midwest interests may be.

Educational Tours- Organic agriculture, folk skills and nutritional cooking
        Whether you're an university class looking for a field trip, a corporation looking for team-building adventures, or a solo traveler seeking an informative trip - we can design the perfect experience for you. We have extensive knowledge and contacts in the areas of agriculture, organics, nutrition, foods and cooking, folk skills, and alternative education organizations such as Waldorf. We can put together team-building adventures using outdoor activities to challenge the spirit and mold your corporate team into a more unified force. Our real expertise is our ability to connect you with local experts and guide you through learning environments which relate directly to your interests.

Japan, the little country that can!
        Information coming soon!

South America, extraordinary geography, passionate people and cultural beauty
        If you haven’t been to South America, get ready! South America is the real sleeping dragon. With snow-capped volcanoes scattered from the steamy, northern-Caribbean coastline to “Terra Del Fuego (the land of fire),” nature has sculpted an impressive playground. Take your adventure to the southern tip of the Americas. Our staff has spent over two years there. From trekking the mountains to sampling world-class wines, we understand South American travel. We have countless Latin connections in areas of tourism and organic agriculture. We can put together tours to all the major spots, or take you deep into the Amazon to submerge in the customs and cultures of the locals. Themed tours are available as well. Tour coffee plantations or vineyards, trek America’s tallest mountain � Aconcagua � or simply learn how not to spill your beer while sitting in a hammock on the beach! You tell us what you want to experience and we will arrange and the trip of a lifetime.

Tour Example
Accommodation :Viroqua Heritage INN (B&B) Nice antique atmosphere, Great breakfast!
Day 1 Welcome Dinner with Local teachers and friends in our home.
Day 2 Lesson about Organic Soil with high school students. Gardening experience. She helped plant ‘The little Country School Garden’ We will use this garden for our Tours through out the season! We will be teaching future clients to grow vegetable, pick them for our cooking classes and canning! so we will use this garden lots of different ways!
Day 3 Tea time and language exchange with local people. Visiting one of the biggest organic CSA farm in this area. Wild cooking lesson and wild foods dinner. You will be amazed how much nutrition wild plants have and how much stuff we can use from the wildworld of nature!
Day 4 Organic lecture at Organic apple orchard. We discovered lots of important keys for organic agriculture and how to work with beneficiary bugs and plants. Eat lunch at Organic Valley, worlds biggest organic cooperative. In the afternoon we visited a vegetable farm and did transplanting, weeding and harvesting some vegetable and herbs that we went on to use for our organic cooking class on day 5. The farmers are just amazing! They are pioneering all sorts of organic growing techniques.
Day 5 Gardening and Organic cooking with Anne Marie who studied about Micro biotic for 30 years. Learned about Tinctures!
Day 6 One day farmer’s market experience, from picking, prepping, boxing all the way to selling at the market! We pick watercress from the farm spring, and sold water cress pesto with walnut from the garden. We sold honey and spinach too! They are so fresh!
Day 7 Amish Tour Visiting Amish families and shopping at their shops. (No photos, out of respectfor the Amish) They make amazing crafts, yummy Jams and sweets. Everything is hand made! Their way of farming is without tractor and electricity so they use houses! they are the ultimate in sustainable living.
Day 8 Whole grainOrganic cooking Leaned about the nutrition of whole grain. Cooking and baking. Gardening lecture and tree planting lesson. Visiting Bee farmand making candle from Beeswax
Day 9 Mississippi area sightseeing. It is wonderful view of Mississippi! We hiked at the state park where we can see Mississippi river view from the top. We ate the famous walnutburger at Trempealeau Hotel. Visiting some ofthe indian mounds, Canoeing on Mississippi river and having a Trout BBQ.
Day 10 Visiting highschool for their Noh Play( Japanese Play) rehearsal. Jam and Pie makingwith Rhubarb Picking Rhubarb
Day 11 Visiting avegetable farmer and took a farm tour and helped them with some trans planting.
Day 12 Back to Japan