The average trip will stretch 626 miles, though 54% of those surveyed said their Labor Day excursion will fall between 100 and 400 miles roundtrip.

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Once we were back from our 12 day excursion we hit the ground running excited to start a new way of teaching physical activity to our students.

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Guided treks can start at any of the six villages and vary from a single day excursion to four days or more depending on fitness level and time available.

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In each of these ports we took a full-day shore excursion with visits to native villages, a lunch, native performances and travel on some very rough roads.

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But the house was deep in the country, with no other house in sight, and the children had been in London for two years, without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train, and so the White House seemed to them a sort of Fairy Palace set down in an Earthly Paradise.

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On our first day on Maui, we took a ship-organised excursion to the steepling gorge of Iao Valley State Park, where misty wisps of cloud leant a volcanic air to the long-extinct peaks.

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We had left him at school but he had to do something prior to the excursion that was not part of the normal flow of the day.

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To this day, Moto Guzzi makes a sport-touring Norge model in tribute to the excursion.

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Our vessel carried a total of 2, 000 fortunate souls, all of whom had the option of walking ashore, taking a ship-organised excursion, jumping in the nearest taxi or hiring a car for the day, which proved most advantageous on Maui and Kauai where the overnight stay encouraged us to be more adventurous.

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