Crawford Alumni Center
Golden Eagle Travel
Upcoming Trips:
Tennessee Tech is excited to offer exceptional travel opportunities for alumni, faculty, staff and friends. Experience the comradery of exploring the world with your fellow Golden Eagles. We partner with companies that specialize in group travel, and we take care of all of the details so you can relax and enjoy your vacation.
Due to limited space, we encourage you to sign up for the tours you are interested in as soon as possible. Email alumni@tntech.edu with questions or suggestions for future itineraries.
Wings Up…Across America!
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Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
October 9 - 14, 2024
Travel with us to the Land of Enchantment to enjoy New Mexico’s beautiful landscapes, history and architecture. A highlight will be the world famous Albuquerque Balloon Festival, the world’s largest & most famous hot air ballooning event. Witness the Mass Ascension, which includes over 500 balloons taking to the sky. Also experience the balloons up close and illuminated on solid ground during the Balloon Glow.
Enjoy 3 nights in Santa Fe, founded in 1607 making it America’s oldest state capital city and 3rd oldest continuously inhabited U.S. city. Enjoy a Santa Fe City Tour with a local guide featuring the Santa Fe Plaza, the Palace of the Governor’s, built in 1610, and a visit to the Loretto Chapel to learn of its mysterious past. Santa Fe is part of the UNESCO Creative City Network as one of the most important art markets in the world, and is renowned for its beauty, Pueblo-style architecture & museums.
Learn more about New Mexico’s Native American history and culture with visits to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and the Taos Pueblo. The Taos Pueblo is a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring ancient Pueblo homes which have been continuously inhabited for over 1,000 years. A few of the other attractions during this program include Old Town Albuquerque, the “High Road to Taos” & Los Alamos Bradbury Museum, which tells the story of this isolated town and its role in the Manhattan Project.
Register at Premier World Discovery using web code 167745.
Tanzania Trailblazer Safaris
May 25-31, 2025 (sign up by Jan. 10)
Sept. 7-13, 2025 (sign up by April 15)
Trip itinerary and information
read about the last safari our alumni took!
Cuba Discovery
February 24 - March 1, 2025
Located 90 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida, Cuba is an island brimming with vibrant art, soul stirring music and villages cloaked in colonial charm. Cuba, once again accessible to American travelers, is a country begging to be explored. Travel with us to the largest Caribbean island nation and discover a country with a population as warm and scintillating as its tropical climate and colorful arts.
Begin your journey in Havana, Cuba’s enigmatic capital city, whose nearly 500-year Old Havana is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the largest collections of Spanish-Colonial architecture in the Americas. Learn more about the Plaza de la Revolucion, the center of Cuban political life where millions of Cubans listened to speeches of Fidel Castro.
Continue the tour with a fascinating visit and guided tour with a local cigar expert to the La Corona Cigar Factory. See firsthand and learn about the history and the process of Cuban cigars being hand-rolled. Enjoy a performance by the amazing Habana Compas Dance Group. Interact with the students and teachers to learn more about the Cuban dance culture. Tour the famous Nacional Hotel, once Havana’s flagship hotel that has hosted celebrities and world leaders during its heyday, such as Winston Churchill and Frank Sinatra, to name a few.
Travel out of Havana and into the rural Cuban countryside to the Vinales Valley located in the western most mountainous range in Cuba and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This region is known for its stunning scenery, a landscape of prehistoric-looking flat-top mountains or “mogotes,” tobacco plantations, caves and rivers.
Visit Ernest Hemingway’s Farm (Finca La Vigia meaning ‘lookout house.’) This beautiful property hosts the house where the Nobel Prize winner lived with his wife Martha for 21 years. View the perfectly preserved home where many of the Hemingway personal furniture and belongings remain intact.
Please review the itinerary details and keep in mind that roundtrip airfare is included in the tour price.
Book online using web code 182722 at Premier World Discovery
Cape Cod & the Islands
July 26 - August 1, 2025
Cape Cod, located in eastern Massachusetts, is among New England’s favorite summer vacation destinations and it thrives on tourism, beautiful ocean beaches and small unique businesses. Travelers come to lose themselves amongst endless miles of windswept seashore, dune-studded landscapes, inshore forests and historic sights. Enjoy your first night in exciting Boston and then head out for 5 nights at one hotel on ‘The Cape’ to experience its beauty and history. Visit amazing Boston, mansion-filled Newport, RI, Provincetown, a Cranberry Bog and ferry to the two most scenic and famous Islands off ‘The Cape,’ Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Today, Boston is the economic and cultural hub of New England yet retains its rich history in education, arts, culture, cuisine and architecture. Boston is one of America’s oldest cities, first incorporated as a town in 1630 with a rich economic and social history. The Cape’s recorded history starts with the Plymouth Pilgrims who first set foot in the New World at the tip of Cape Cod in 1620. Enroute from Boston to Cape Cod visit Plymouth Plantation, and see Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II, recently renovated for the 400th Anniversary of the historic voyage. On another day visit a traditional Cranberry Bog, see scenic Lighthouses and travel to the tip of Cape Cod to visit charming Provincetown. The island of Martha’s Vineyard is only seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, but a world all its own. ‘The Vineyard’ is a true island as there are no bridges from the mainland, and most visitors arrive by ferry or plane. Explore the seaside city of Newport, RI famous for its historic mansions and an upscale downtown filled with cobblestone streets and brick sidewalks. The sight of the island of Nantucket coming into view from the bow of a ferry is a stirring one as lines of foaming breakers crash against vast stretches of sand on the shore while 17th-century architecture dots the downtown horizon. Enjoy these wonderful New England sights during your 7-day adventure to Boston and ‘The Cape.’
Please review the itinerary details and count the extras. With roundtrip airfare included, we hope you can join us and agree this is an amazing trip.
Book online using web code 183108 at Premier World Discovery
