Adventures in Good Company is proud to announce partnerships with the official partners of twelve U.S. National Parks. These partnerships will make it easier for our trip participants to directly support the national parks they visit on AGC trips. Year after year we hear our travelers ask us how to best give back to the parks they’ve visited on an AGC trip. Our solution is a new partnership initiative that will make it easier for our trip participants to donate directly to the organizations that work with and support the parks we explore.  “Often communities of people who love a park or val ..read more

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, we’ve been thinking about some of the mother/daughter duos who have traveled with us over the years. Megan Nunn and her mom Lisa Dunham have traveled with AGC for years, most recently to Maine and Glacier National Park. Colleen Bridger and her mom Norine MacArthur traveled with us in the very beginning of AGC and in the last few years started inviting the next generation, Sarah (Colleen’s daughter). Several years back the trio climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro for Norine’s 75th birthday. Maggie Lomasney and her mom Laurie Lomasney doubled up for our Raftin ..read more

The story of AGC’s partnership with Mongolian Gobi Taiga Tour Co. is one of female relationships and support. Jan Latham, one of our longest-serving guides and program managers, built a relationship with a young Mongolian woman named Enkh-Oyun Erdenebaatar (Inga) just as she was starting her guiding business. Inga got started guiding with the help of her mother and female professors. Now, Inga is a mother and business owner and her six-month old daughter is growing up in an ever-changing Mongolia. Inga was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar city but dreamed about the countryside her whole childh ..read more

Last year we had all of out 2020 international trips posted on our website by the end of March. So you may be wondering where the 2020 trips are - and by the number of emails we're getting asking that question, you are not the only one. So here's the answer. While there are still a few trips we're waiting to get costs for or new trips that need a little more work on writing up the itinerary, they're basically ready to go.  We'll be offering 96 trips (give or take 1 or 2). In addition to the new international trips we've already mentioned (Viet Nam, Portugal, Ireland, Cornwall), we're adding ..read more

When you’re a world traveler and avid hiker who has been a vegetarian for more than 50 years, you learn a few pointers about how to eat well on the road. Aggie Alvez, who has traveled with AGC for many years and has been a vegetarian since she was eleven (and moved to veganism about 12 years ago), shares five action steps that she takes when traveling while vegan.   Communicate Clearly Up Front          Whether you’re traveling as part of a group or individually, you are the primary person responsible for the success of your diet while traveling. Following a plant-based diet can take many f ..read more

Perhaps you’ve heard of sustainable travel, low impact travel, or green travel. We like the term "Responsible Travel," encompassing all of those concepts. Our founder Marian Marbury recently penned a blog about ten ways to practice responsible travel. Because traveling responsibly is so important to us as a company, we decided to revisit the topic and in celebration of our 20th anniversary and offer 20 specific tips for responsible travel. In some cases, we include a product example that we like, recognizing that there may be other similar types of products 1. Avoid single-use plastic bottles ..read more

"There is nothing more beautiful and fulfilling than to see others when they get out of the comfort zone, the smile and pride on their faces when they succeed in something they did not believe they can do," Sabina Sirco.    One of the greatest joys of adventure travel is meeting like-minded women all over the globe. Within just a few minutes of meeting Sabina Sirco on Skype we were laughing and talking excitedly as if we were old friends. By the end of the chat, she had invited me to Bosnia to come hiking with her. This was no surprise to me- I had heard about Sabina from my colleagu ..read more

Over the last two decades Adventures in Good Company has met and worked with dozens of groundbreaking women in the field of adventure travel. Maria Abud is one of those incredible people. When I spoke with her, she was sitting happily in her camper van that she calls home with a view of the mountains just outside her windshield. We talked about sustainability, women in business, and the joy of the mountains.  Maria with AGC guide Anne Brewer, in front of Mt. Fitz Roy in Fitz Roy Los Glaciares National Park “Being a woman in Chile and running an adventure travel company is the very lowest [li ..read more

As a former National Park Ranger and an avid visitor of both state and national parks, I love discovering the quiet side of our public lands. And as the Chief Sustainability Officer at AGC, I especially like finding parks that haven't been over-touristed. These are the areas that are still closest to their natural state, where the grandeur of nature isn't interrupted by human development, and where I can take in the views without someone snapping a photo on their phone next to me. Our National Parks are natural treasures, but beauty draws tourists and tourism brings development and interrupt ..read more