Trip: October 9 - October 18
Cost: $2650.00 each based on double occupancy
Deposit $600.00 each
Latter Day Tours is pleased to announce Bruce Hansen to our staff, guiding Adult Church History Tours in 2023. He has been teaching in the Church Education System for 40 years. He is an experienced Church history tour director and has led tours throughout Mesoamerica. He has also directed EFY for 21 years and was the session director for the first FSY in Nevada. He has been a bishop and the 1st Counselor in the Las Vegas Stake Presidency. Besides all that he has a wit that is second to none and you will love him.
TOUR ITINERARY
| DATE: | October 9, 2023 (Monday) |
| FLIGHT: | See Individual Ticket Information |
| SITES: | Independence Visitors Center, Temple site, Liberty Jail. Harry S. Truman home, and Community of Christ Temple if open. |
| HOTEL: | Fairfield Inn, Liberty, Missouri |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| DATE: | October 10, 2023 (Tuesday) |
| BREAKAST: | Provided (Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | Amish Buffet, Jamesport, Missouri |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Kansas City Temple, Far West, Gallatin, Hamilton (Boyhood home of
J.C. Penney), Jamesport (Amish City) Adam-Ondi-Ahman |
| HOTEL: | Quality Inn, Keokuk, Iowa |
| DATE: | October 11, 2023 (Wednesday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | City of Nauvoo, Mansion House, Homestead, Nauvoo House, Red Brick Store, Smith Family Cemetery, Parley Street (where wagons lined up to leave Nauvoo), Mississippi River, LDS Visitors Center, Women's Monuments, Lucy Mack Smith Home, Brick Yard, Jonathan Browning Home, John Taylor Home, Nauvoo Temple, Shopping Downtown Old Nauvoo, Montrose, Iowa, Blacksmith Shop, Brigham Young Home where saints crossed Mississippi River and looked back on temple site. Temple Session If possible (optional) |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Quality Inn, Keokuk, Iowa |
| DATE: | October 12, 2023 (Thursday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Warsaw (Where they planned and celebrated the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith), Carthage, Indianapolis Temple. |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Fairfield Inn, New Paris, Ohio |
| DATE: | October 13, 2023 (Friday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Travel Day. 4 hours from New Paris to Kirtland, OH, John Johnson Farm, Kirtland Temple, LDS Visitors Center, Whitney Store, Old Sawmill, Isaac Morley Farm, Columbus Ohio Temple |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Holiday Inn, Mentor, Ohio |
| DATE: | October 14, 2023 (Saturday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Niagara Falls, NY |
| DINNER | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Buffalo, New York |
| DATE: | October 15, 2023 (Sunday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 7:00 am. Travel to Palmyra. Attend church in Palmyra |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Sacred Grove, Joseph Smith Farm, Palmyra Temple, Alvin Smith Gravesite, Martin Harris Farm, Grandin Building, Hill Cumorah, Erie Canal, Downtown Palmyra |
| DINNER | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Palmyra, New York |
| DATE: | October 16, 2023 (Monday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:30 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Peter Whitmer Farm, Susquehanna River, Harmony PA (Emma Smith childhood Home) Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site, Gravesite of Emma's parents and Emma And Joseph Smith's first child Alvin, rebuilt cabin on site Where Book of Mormon was translated. |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Owego New York |
| DATE: | October 17, 2023 (Tuesday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| LUNCH: | On Your Own |
| SITES: | Sharon Vermont, Birthplace of the Prophet Joseph, Autumn leaves, New England States |
| DINNER: | On Your Own |
| HOTEL: | Quechee, VT |
| DATE: | October 18, 2023 (Wednesday) |
| BREAKFAST: | Provided ( Hotel Lobby) |
| DEPART: | 8:00 a.m. |
| FLIGHT HOME: | To be announced, personal reservation. Flights will Leave Manchester, NH between 1-3 p.m. |