A guided historical tour exploring Plymouth, Lexington, Concord, and Boston, including key sites from the Pilgrim settlement and the American Revolution.

Estimated Total Cost:

• Tour Pkg. $900 + Est. Food $250 (not collected by BRR) = Est. Total: $1150 per person (plus travel to & from Boston).

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Read the following important letter from Dan (Click "More"):

I want to follow up with more information to Saturday’s email about the possible Plymouth/Boston trip. Let me say that if you have never seen these sights, this will be a trip of a lifetime! Additionally, I will be adding commentary along the way that will enhance each sight and help tie everything together historically.

First, here’s a rough itinerary of the tour:

• Sunday evening: arrive in Boston

• Monday: take bus to Plymouth and begin tour with the “Plimouth Plantation” (that is the way they spell it). The Plantation is a modern recreation of the original settlement in Plymouth, where the residents stay in character all day long, and we get to see what life was like for the Separatists (Pilgrims). That afternoon, we go to our motel, get settled in, and then walk the historic section of Plymouth late that afternoon/evening as we go to supper.

• Tuesday: we fully tour Plymouth including – Plymouth Rock, Cole Hill (where half of the Pilgrims were buried), the Forefathers’ Monument, & Burial Hill

• Wednesday: we leave in the morning to travel to Lexington and Concord. We will walk the ground where the Black Robed Regiment, led by Pastor Jonas Clarke, took its first stand. We’ll see where Pastor Clarke’s church stood, the Clarke house, the Buckman Tavern (where the Minutemen gathered). Then we will travel to Concord to Battle Road, see where Paul Revere was captured for a short time, see the Old North Bridge where the major part of the fighting took place at Concord, see the Minuteman statue, the Col. James Barrett farm, and the Col. John Buttrick farm. Then we’ll travel to Boston to our motel there.

• Thursday: we will begin our tour of Boston with the Boston Commons, the Granary Cemetery (where many Founders are buried), Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Mass. State House (location of the Boston Massacre), Old South Meeting House (where the patriots met the night of the Boston Tea Party)

• Friday: we will tour Bunker Hill, the Copps Cemetery (where the British fired cannons toward the patriots on Bunker Hill – some tombstones are still pockmarked by British musket fire), see the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), tour the Old North Church (where Paul Revere looked for the lanterns in the steeple), see Paul Revere’s house, end up that evening in the Italian district and eat authentic Italian food.

Cost

1. The total trip cost (paid to LifePoint) is $900 per person (a $400 deposit due by March 14, with the remaining balance of $500 due later this spring). The $900 covers motel, bus accommodations while we are in Plymouth and Boston, and any tickets we will need for admission to some of the sights.

2. The estimated food costs for the week (paid by each individual the week we are in Plymouth and Boston and not included in the $900 and not paid to LifePoint) will likely be around $250. I’m simply throwing that figure out there in case you need to know how to plan. Breakfast will be provided by the motels where we stay, so you will only need to plan on purchasing lunch and an evening meal at mostly fast food places - although some of the evenings you will be free to venture off on your own and eat wherever you want. Since you will be making the decision about what you eat, that $250 food cost could end up being lower or higher. I just wanted to give you an approximate number so you can figure food costs into your budget. 

3. If we do not have 35 people signed up by March 14, everything you have paid will be refunded. However, if we have 35 signed up by March 14, the $400 deposit will become non-refundable since I will be using those monies to secure the bus company and will not be able to back out of that contract. The remaining balance of $500 would be due later this spring.

4. You will also be responsible for the cost of getting yourself to Boston and back to OKC. Some will be driving, so it is possible that some of you could carpool and help defray some of the travel costs.

Elaboration about the deposit

Once we have at least 35 committed to going, I will secure our tour bus for travel while we’re there. This creates a bit of a “catch 22” for us. I can’t secure the bus until I am certain we have 35 going. But I also can’t secure the bus until I have a $400 deposit from each person going. I said on Saturday that the deadline for the deposit is March 14. Actually, we can be more flexible with that date once we have the 35 needed. Just so you will know, the “magic number” of 35 is nothing special. 35 simply makes the price per person for the bus reasonable. Unfortunately, once the deposit is paid, I cannot refund it since we will be committed to the bus company at that point.

Cancelations

Once we have everyone’s $400 per person deposit, we’ll set a date for payment of the remaining $500 balance and a cutoff date for cancellations. For a few weeks before the cutoff date, I will be able to refund the balance payment (not the initial $400 deposit) if anyone is forced to cancel. Please understand that as we get fully into planning and as we get closer to the trip date, cancellations become impossible since we will be committing to a certain number of rooms at our motels. If you registered and paid the $400 but later learned you could not attend, the initial deposit would remain a donation to the church to help cover the costs of this event.

Tour Date

Many of you are asking me for a tour date – for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I cannot provide that information until we have 35 participants. I can say that it will be the 3rd or 4th week of May. For purposes of the registration form, we have set the date tentatively for May 17-22 (which is subject to change).

If you have more questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at dan@Lbcok.com or text me at 405-650-2250.

Obviously, time is of the essence! The sooner we can get to our magic number of 35, the sooner we can begin solidifying our trip and setting a firm date. Right now, we only have 12 – and a few of them are “tentative.” Because planning a trip like this is so complicated, if numbers do not pick up quickly, we may have to postpone to the Fall. So, let me know if you intend to go asap!

Looking forward to being in Plymouth/Boston with you,

Dan Fisher

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