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*Boone's Scenic Valley Railroad Adventure

Dates:June 6, 2025
Meets:F from 7:00 AM to 9:30 PM
Location:MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot
Cost: $169.00

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Our unique tour begins at the enchanting Hotel Pattee in Perry, IA. This grand hotel built in 1913 individually decorated every room to celebrate the history, tradition, and people who make up the region. Our tour guide will show us around this impressive landmark and tour a few individually themed rooms as availability allows plus a visit to the Carnegie Library Museum built in 1904 adjacent to the hotel. You'll visit the fascinating James H Andrew Train Museum and Iowa Railway Gift Shop in Boone, IA. A train whistle will signal you to hop aboard your Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad car for a 1 hr-45 min. adventure. Experience the drama of your locomotive train running through the beautiful Des Moines River valley. At the end of the afternoon, relax and enjoy delicious wine from cold climate grapes at The Cellar Winery in Madrid, IA.

Notes:

**JUNE-AUGUST 2019: DUE TO CONSTRUCTION ON THE PARKING LOT AT THE SARPY CENTER, PARK AND MEET THE BUS IN THE NORTHWEST PARKING LOT** The cost paid to MCC is for bus transportation, the Hotel Pattee tour, Carnegie Library Museum tour, the Swede Point Creamery tour, the Boone Scenic train ticket, and the Railroad Museum. Bring money for shopping and meals. Our deluxe motor coach departs promptly at 6:30 a.m. from MCC's Sarpy Center, 9110 Giles Road; please park and meet the bus at the NORTHWEST parking lot. Return approximately at 9:30 p.m. Feel free to bring drinks along for the train ride. No discount. Refunds will not be allowed within seven days of the trip. Moderate walking is required.
Fee: $169.00
Hours:14.50
CEUs:1.45

MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot

Kevin Kowskie

Kevin Kowskie is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is passionate about travel and art. His artwork has been displayed at the College of St. Mary’s, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Durham Museum and has been included in a group show at the Joslyn Art Museum. Kowskie’s love for foreign travel and cultural enrichment goes back as far as he can remember. While traveling with his family to Rocky Mountain National Park as a child, he developed a keen desire to expand his journeys to distant lands, and the rest was history. After traveling through much of the United States as he got older, this ambition drew him to expand his travels on an international scale—discovering destinations in Canada, Mexico and a dozen European nations. In his early thirties, Kevin and a friend devoted two weeks every year to backpacking through Europe and visiting different nations and destinations via train. He loves encountering new cultures and meeting people from diverse backgrounds. After someone suggested to him that Omaha would appreciate seminars on European travel, Kowskie followed his passion to become a noncredit instructor on the subject for MCC. Planning, organizing and leading group tours are part of his favorite pastimes. Kowskie is currently a trip leader and coordinator for MCC’s Traveling Classrooms, sharing his experience and knowledge as part of the motivated Continuing Education staff.

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