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Best of the West Tour September 2019

Let’s be honest, touring the south-west of America for 12 days on a Harley doesn’t come cheap!  So having decided to commit to the tour almost a year in advance my wife and I had plenty of time to ask what we were actually paying for.  Of course, there’s the obvious… renting and riding a top bike (including fuel & insurances), super hotel accommodation throughout and the support of a back-up vehicle and driver (amongst many other things) but it was only after the tour when we returned to Blighty and had time to reflect that we truly appreciated where the real value lay!  WOW! - what a tour.  Not surprisingly, our expectations were high but in the final analysis we realised that Darren and the BC team had delivered for us (and everybody else in the tour group) an experience that we simply couldn’t have contemplated - it was staggeringly good and far exceeded our hopes and expectations.  So, how did they do this?

 

The organisation and attention to detail throughout was impeccable both in the planning / pre-tour phase when Amy and Bekkie were always available, always utterly professional back at HQ to help with clear advice based on first-hand experience of what it’s like to be on tour.  We never felt like clients - more like valued friends.  Then of course there was the reality of life on tour!  Every day Darren was a ‘man with a plan’ and he led with a quiet and confident approach.  The days are long - they have to be - because every day was packed with an itinerary that made sure we really did see the ‘Best of the West’.  Darren knows the territory, knows the best roads, knows the best vantage points, knows the best restaurants and, most importantly, knows how to bring a group of people together to have fun and share what was simply the experience of a lifetime.  In writing a review of the tour we should / could reiterate this experience included visits to LA, The Pacific Coast (‘Big Sur’), Golden Gate, Yosemite, Death Valley, Grand Canyon…. but this would be doing a dis-service to places not mentioned because the list is indeed extensive.

 

There are, of course, other, often large and impersonal, commercial organisations who organise and run tours to similar locations and I did indeed explore all options before deciding that BC tours was for us.  So, what was the discriminator? We like bespoke; we like intimate and the opportunity for us to get to know a great set of people who toured with us….. all strangers, but now all friends.  We liked the reassurance of being in the hands of somebody [Darren] who not only kept us all safe, made sure we missed nothing but actually gave us the added value through his network of close friends and associates he has in the USA.  The tour delivered on every level: the best physical locations, a myriad of emotional and social connections and, on occasions, experiences in places that were so powerful they delivered spiritual impact - we will never forget sunrise at Bryce Canyon!

 

So…. was it all worth it?  You bet!