Our travel guru Mike has arranged a special departure just for Global Travelers on a six-day journey to Iceland in search of the Northern Lights. Your odds of seeing the stunning Aurora Borealis are good, but even if you don’t, you’ll experience the natural beauty of Iceland.

The trip is from February 22-27, 2026.

Our Global Travelers team is currently hard at work with the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa writing a global grant application. The vision is to build a commercial bakery in a school to enhance the economic environment in the surrounding community and to feed hungry children. We’re looking for partner clubs.

Planning is well underway for our club’s fall service project — building with Habitat for Humanity in Alexandria, Minnesota. Learn more about the project and how to RSVP (if you haven’t already). Join your fellow Global Travelers for two days of service and fellowship before the fall social.

Chesa Keane, an Associate member of Global Travelers, is a long-time consultant in many aspects of IT. As members of a virtual Rotary club, we are all, by definition, on-line to various degrees. Chesa continues her excellent series on escaping internet scams, this time with a strong warning of the consequences of lax security.

Several times a year, our geographically dispersed Global Travelers club chooses a virtual service project. Our goal with each project we choose is to give our members they opportunity to participate wherever they are — serving the world together, separately. Our challenge this spring was to find a way to celebrate Earth Day during April and May by doing something nice for the earth.

Are you one of those Global Travelers who’ve been ignoring all the subtle and not-so-subtle nudges to start using our club database? July 1 is Rotary new year. Make a resolution to give it a try. And here’s a roundup of some links to help you.

Our virtual Global Travelers club is embracing a rhythm of providing opportunities for our members to meet in person several times a year. We’re combining social time and service opportunities with travel to an interesting destination. Typically one or more members organize a “home town” event. Lenet Compton brought many of us to Kansas City in March. Colette Cody and Silvia Johnson are organizing an event in Hawaii in December. And now, we’re excited about another opportunity — to visit Alaska with our fellow Global Travelers.

Join fellow Global Travelers in Honolulu, Hawaii in December of 2025 for a special service and social event. We will join a community effort to help clean up the Atawai Canal. Our service project will be combined with a social gathering of any Global Travelers who are able to attend. And for even more adventure, follow the social and service with a 7-day cruise around the islands.