MCKAYLA DUNFEY The pride of Glastonbury, Connecticut, Shannon Usher is looking forward to the bike trails and sea breezes she’s going to find on our Cape Cod & the Islands trip this summer. Shannon is a rising junior at Amherst College, where she studies economics. She also spends a lot of time on
CC GENSHEIMER Micah Rose, a native of the green hills of Williston, Vermont, grew up hiking on Vermont’s Long Trail, paddling on Lake Champlain, and skiing his way through the long Vermont winters. Micah studied anthropology and sociology at Swarthmore College, and is looking forward to graduating this spring. We’re thrilled to have Micah onboard
With the daffodils fading and summer nearly upon us, we are busy here at Apogee’s Intergalactic Headquarters gearing up for trips starting very soon. Two months from today, May 2, we will have trips running in Oregon, Montana, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Georgia, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Italy. Yikes. It’s
Happy Spring to all! Flowers are starting to bloom here in Maine, trees are slowly showing their buds, and warmer weather is on the rise. Only 2 ½ months to summer! Again in 2012 we’re making our sharp looking, blue Apogee Bike Jerseys available for purchase to students and families. The cost
Well, hello there, Wide World of Apogee! Warm tidings of the New Year to you all — your humble Apogee directors hope that your 2012 is off to an outstanding start. As it is early January, it’s resolution time — but I’ll leave you those to you. Up here, early January means
Mmm-mmm-mm — I can see it now… A warm fire crackling, snow gently falling outside, a steamy waft of nutmeg and cinnamon rising from the hot eggnog, and all of this enjoyed from within the soft, warm confines of an official Apogee “Leader Gear” Hoodie! That’s right, the very same, super-cool hoodie that our
Fall greetings, faithful blog readers! The leaves are changing up here in Maine, and it’s apparent that Old Man Winter isn’t far away. But despite the colder temperatures, this time of year is treasured at Apogee HQ. It’s a busy time of year — but we love the opportunity to reflect
More anticipated than the Oscars and more pored-over than Pokemon cards in Mrs. Jones’ third-grade class, we are delighted to announce the arrival of our 2012 trip schedule (or most of it anyway…*)! Our Trips at a Glance page is updated with 2012 dates and tuition costs, and each individual trip page is updated
September greetings to the Wide World of Apogee! Your humble co-directors are just back in the office after a fantastic scouting trip out west and we wanted to put up some shots from the road to give you a little taste of next summer’s brand-spankin’-new California Mountains and Coast trip. It’s going to
Hank Williams, Jr. crooned in a 1963 movie, “It’s All Over But the Crying.” Here at Apogee, we would adopt that to say, “It’s All Over But the Crying (and some really long flights…).” Yes, friends, it’s true — our last three trips are just about done. Yes, three trips. Our cross-country dynamos –