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CA-SPONSORED OUTINGS
Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available Monday, Aug. 1 at 8 a.m.
Talbot’s Trunk Event & Shopping time to explore on your own this afternoon. Shop along Concho
The Arboretum Market – Austin - NEW! Avenue, take the Murals tour, visit the Museum of Art or have
a pair of M.L. Leddy’s custom boots made. Following a short
Lunch on your own rest at the hotel, our evening begins with an old-fashion chuck
Monday, Oct. 24, $26 pp wagon dinner catered by Fiddle Fire (fiddle playing included) and
Depart SCPL 9:15 a.m.; Return 3 p.m. ends with a private after dark tour of old Fort Concho, complete
with spooky tales of the settlers and soldiers who manned this
Be pampered at a fashion show post on the wild frontier.
created for our Sun City group featuring
refreshments, goodie bags and a drawing for a Included today: buffet breakfast, bottled water, chuck wagon
Talbot’s gift certificate. After spending time dinner
enjoying ourselves at Talbot’s, we may stroll on down to Williams
Sonoma, Ann Taylor, Sephora or Trader Joe’s. There will be time Thursday – As we head home today, we will stop at a unique
for lunch on your own as well as shopping. Starbuck’s patio awaits site, Paint Rock Pictographs. Located on private land, our host
a conversation and a latte with some friends. Get those comfy shoes Kay Campbell will take us on a short walk along the Concho
ready as well as your allowance for a day of fun. Feel free to bring River to view 1,000 year old Indian pictographs. A bit more Forts
a cooler to pack with finds from Trader Joe’s for the ride home. history and a stop in Brady for a barbecue lunch.
Ticket cost includes transportation and Talbot’s experience. Included today: buffet breakfast, snack with bottled water, lunch
Volunteer Trip Leader: Cheryl Jakubowski For an expanded itinerary, go to the Lifestyles & Activities
Calendar and click on this trip.
The Forts Trails – Mason to San Angelo
NOTE: A minimum of 40 passengers is required for this
Tuesday, Oct. 25 – Thursday, Oct. 27 trip to operate. If we do not sell that minimum, then
$460 pp single occupancy; $330 the trip will be canceled and refunds will be processed.
pp double occupancy
Depart CCPL 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday; Ticket cost includes transportation, 2 nights hotel with
Return 5 p.m. on Thursday breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner, 3 snacks, bottled water, and
Ticket purchase deadline: Friday, Sept. 23 tour fees.
Following Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather
statehood in 1845, settlers streamed west with
the hope of new opportunities. Frontier soldiers Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
built forts linking wild country with settled Zach Theater – Austin - NEW!
lands, while protective Native Americans defended these prairies
as their traditional buffalo hunting and trading grounds. Join Dinner on your own
us for the stories and explore the places where history was made Sunday, Oct. 30, $96 pp
along the Texas Forts Trail. Depart SCPL 1 p.m.; Return 8 p.m.
Tuesday – Our adventure begins with Fort Mason and the Mason Shake your groove thing and climb
County Courthouse Square. Explore tales of Old Yeller, the Texas aboard Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! This
Blue Topaz, and the 1875 Mason County Hoodoo War. The trail outrageously fun show tells the uplifting story
leads on to Menard and the 1757 Presidio San Saba, a remnant of three friends on the road trip of a lifetime.
of Spanish Tejas and the site for our picnic lunch. After lunch, we They hop aboard an old battered bus searching for love and
take a guided tour of Fort McKavitt State Historical Park, one of friendship in the middle of the Australian outback and end up
the most intact examples of a Texas Indian Wars military post. finding more than they could have ever dreamed. An international
Last stop is the San Angelo Visitor’s Center, a beautiful site built hit with hundreds of dazzling, Tony award winning costumes,
on the Concho River. Dinner this evening will be on your own: this show features a hit parade of over 20 dance-floor favorites
Texas Road House, I-Hop, or China Garden Buffet. including, It’s Raining Men, I Love the Nightlife, and I Will Survive.
Priscilla is funny and fabulous entertainment with eye-popping
Included today: muffin with juice, box lunch, snack with bottled visuals and unexpected heart. All aboard for some hot stuff
water tonight!
Wednesday – We take a driving tour through historic San Our post-matinee dinner stop will be The Domain where you will
Angelo. Along with a history lesson, we will visit The Cactus find an eclectic mix of upscale restaurants to choose from. Map
Hotel, built by Conrad Hilton; tour Ms. Hattie’s Bordello and menu information provided.
Museum; take a look at the International Water Lilly Park;
and learn about conch pearls at Legend Jewelers. Lunch and NOTE: This musical production contains adult themes
and language.
Ticket cost includes transportation and center orchestra seats.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather
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