Northern California Chapter

The Northern California Chapter of the Travelers' Century Club meets four times a year. Our members share a passion for travel and a desire for knowledge and experience that takes us to every corner of the globe. All members of the Travelers' Century Club have visited at least 100 countries.

Meetings

Future meetings will be tentatively held on the first Saturday of March, June, September and December:

• September 4, 2004
• December 4, 2004
• March 5, 2005
• June 4, 2005

Past meetings were held:

• March 6, 2004, at Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley.
  Theme: Beyond TCC--Where is 'everywhere'...and who decides?
  Guest Speaker: Charles Veley, the most traveled person in the world.
  He completed the 317 TCC list a year ago and has also almost finished the Guinness Book of Records list. He has recently been in the Antarctic for two months including a landing on Bouvet Island.
  • Herald Tribune article by Charles about his travels, January 22, 2004
  • DXCC (Ham Radio) Country List
  
  
• December 6, 2003, at the Delancy Street Restaurant in San Francisco.
  Theme: Guest Speaker Kevin Hughes described circumnavigating Antarctica


• September 6, 2003, at Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley.
  Theme: Guest Speaker Jean Feilmoser, a TCC member with 115 countries who, one year out of college, bought a one way ticket to Europe for her first global trek and has never looked back. Subsequently, she has been a tour guide, taxi driver, tour manager, past president of the San Francisco Tour Guide Guild, and has lived in eight countries. More recently she has been an election monitor in newly independent states such as Bosnia, Slovak Republic, Kosovo, Macedonia, and East Timor. Jean will show slides and speak about her experiences in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.

  Jean is a founding member of The Intentional Traveler website.

• June 7, 2003, at The Presidio Golf Course Clubhouse in San Francisco.
  Theme: Guest Speaker Northern California Chapter member, Jeff Shea, who has 313 countries under his belt and has climbed the Seven Summits (the highest mountain on each continent). Jeff showed slides and talked about his ascent of Mt. Everest from the Tibetan side via the North Ridge route.


• March 1, 2003, hosted by Gloria Mitchell in Saratoga.
  Theme: Guest Speaker Gloria Mitchell presented a slide show on Papua New Guinea.


• September 7, 2002, at Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley.
  Theme: Guest Speaker: Northern California TCC member, Betty Knudson presented a slide show on the Five Stans and the Gulf States


• May 18, 2002, hosted by Tim Carlson in Healdsburg.
  Theme: Guest Speaker: Skydiver Walter Ross who, at 75 years of age, skydived over Antarctica on January 1, 2000, to celebrate the millennium


• February 23, 2002, hosted by Pearl, Peter and Maggie Crowley in Davis.
  Theme: How to plan independent trips to hard-to-reach places.


• November 10, 2001, hosted by John Usher in Saratoga.
  Theme: Everyone was asked to speak for 5-10 minutes, describing how they got hooked and tell a favorite travel story.


• August 25, 2001, co-hosted by Betty Jean Knudson and Tim Carlson at Betty's home in Lafayette.
  Theme: Introductory meeting.

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Members

Tim Carlson
Mary Carson
Magdalene Crowley
Donald Fillman
Richard Frank
Eleanor Helz
Betty Knudson
Helen Kosilla
Charles Lafferty
Gloria Mitchell
Richard Mitchell
Sanford Smith
John Usher
Dick Zink

If you are interested in becoming a member, please visit the main Travelers' Century Club website.