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Sinners and Saints

July 22, 2025 - July 31, 2025
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Journey Overview

Join us in Germany and Austria for a rich encounter with culture and cuisine created to inspire, to renew, and to revitalize fellow travelers in their lives lived as sinners and saints.

Sinners and saints is a purposeful journey that offers perspective on the capacity for human beings to produce beauty and achieve the extraordinary as well as the capacity for unspeakable evil. Our time in Salzburg promises to remind us of the capacity for human beings to achieve the extraordinary in music, intellect, and culture. In addition to our experience of human capacity for achievement in Munich, our visit to the Eagles Nest and Dachau will remind us, in a powerful way, of the human capacity for evil.

 

Your Host for the Journey

Your current host for Awesome Austria is Purposeful Journeys by MCE Founder and CEO, Mike Malone. While Mike would be very happy to host this journey, this and most other journeys are open to prospective, interested hosts.

There are many benefits to serving as a journey host for your cohort of fellow travelers. We will do everything we can to empower you to serve as host for your cohort of fellow travelers at a level you choose. You may want to engage the experience at a more social level while relying on the expertise of in country tour directors and guides. You may want to become more engaged intellectually or spiritually by teaching, leading devotions, or offering your expertise through one or more talks or conversation sessions. Whatever your interest in your level of engagement as a journey host, we will do all we can to support you so that yours becomes a journey of a lifetime.

Become a Host for this Journey

If you are interested in hosting this journey or would like to consider hosting a journey customized just for you and your group, click the button below to learn what it means to Become a Host. We also invite your inquiry. If you want to learn more about hosting this or another journey, please get in touch. We would love to share the benefits of what hosting a journey could mean for you and your cohort of fellow travelers.

Day 1 – Wheels up!
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Sinners and Saints fellow travelers depart for an overnight flight to Salzburg, Austria.

Day 2 – Salzburg, Herzlich Willkommen!
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Following our arrival in Salzburg, we will meet our tour manager and transfer to our beautiful hotel: Arcotel Castellani Salzburg. After some rest and time to settle in, we will gather for a spectacular welcome dinner. D

Day 3 – The Hills are Alive!
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Salzburg is famous for many things, not least the music that echoes from this city. Today, we visit Mirabell Gardens where you just might be tempted to break into your rendition of Do Re Mi. You are sure to be fascinated by the rich history of these very famous grounds. We will also visit the birthplace of Mozart and the Salzburg Dom. B,D

Day 4 – Tour’n and Cruisin’
Friday, July 25, 2025

This will be an exceptionally fun day as we enjoy the Salzkammergut area with Mondsee, St. Gilgen and St. Wolfgang. The day includes a beautiful boat cruise from St. Gilgen to St. Wolfgang. B,D

Day 5 – A Mighty Fortress
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Our cultural experience of Salzburg concludes with a tour of Salzburg that includes a visit to the Hohensalzburg entrance and funicular. B,D

Day 6 - Welcome to Munich!
Sunday, July 27, 2025

We say Auf Wiedersehen to Austria today as we make our way to the Bavarian capitol of Munich.  We will have time to relax and recharge before a marvelous dinner. B,D

Day 7 - A Fascinating Perspective on Humanity
Monday, July 28, 2025

We will dedicate a full day excursion today that includes the Kehlsteinhaus coach and lift. We will visit the Eagles Nest which offers a fascinating perspective on humanity and the world in which we live. It is in this beautiful setting of the Eagles Nest that so much human ugliness was contemplated as the Nazi’s exercised power. B,D

Day 8 – Never Forget
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Concentration camps in Germany are preserved with the commitment by the German people to never forget the evil of their national past. You will no doubt find the presentation at Dachau to be an extraordinarily powerful presentation of the human capacity for evil without being repulsive. Today, we visit Dachau Concentration Camp. B,D

Day 9 – A Fascinating Perspective on Humanity
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Our knowledgeable local guide will escort us through Munich on a fascinating walking tour. We will enjoy dinner at a traditional German beer hall. B,D

Day 10 – The Formal End to our Purposeful Journey
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The memories will indeed last a lifetime. We hope your journey will continue with your new friends. Our journey concludes with the departure of our flight home.

B = Breakfast included L = Lunch included D = Dinner included

Purpose

Sinners and saints is a purposeful journey that offers a historical cultural perspective intended to stimulate questions that inform our own. On this purposeful journey, we will explore the capacity for human beings to produce beauty and achieve the extraordinary as well as the capacity for unspeakable evil. Our time in Salzburg promises to remind us of the capacity for human beings to achieve the extraordinary in music, intellect, and culture. In addition to our experience of human capacity for achievement in Munich, our visit to the Eagles Nest and Dachau will remind us, in a powerful way, of the human capacity for evil.

Martin Luther defined sin as incurvatus in se (inwardly turned on self). When life becomes all about you whether in a particular situation or over an extended period of time, that, Luther might say, is a life of sin. Luther also recognized the capacity for human achievement and the good people can do, especially living lives of active civil righteousness. At the center of life, Luther saw The Cross. Sinners and Saints will remind us of all that is good in what it means to human while also confronting fellow travelers with the human capacity for evil. The purpose of this journey is to inspire, to renew, and to revitalize fellow travelers in their lives lived as sinners and saints.

Our Philosophy

We hope you will measure the quality of your journey, not by the quantity of sights you see, but by the invaluable experiences you absorb.

Balance of stimulating experience, serious reflection… …and just plain fun.

One word describes our intention for your journey: balance. We believe each place we visit should relate to whole story, the arc of a narrative. We believe in creating journeys formed and shaped as narratives; journeys that are serious, purposeful, and fulfilling with time to reflect with fellow travelers or alone while providing opportunity for experiences that are just plain fun.

Expert interaction and rich personal encounters

Rather than a trip led by a tour guide trained to disseminate information from a script, we endeavor to seek experts to lead you on a journey who are available as a resource for as much depth as you desire or to leave you to your own reflection.

One beautiful base location

Too often, group travel can leave you feeling like you are part of a herd of a large group of strangers hustled from sight to sight, packing and unpacking everyday of your trip. With us you will stay in one beautiful base location that serves as a base for our excursions. Changing hotels as few times as possible during a journey allows greater opportunity to experience people and culture.

Meticulously planned; yet flexible journey

How does a trip become a journey? Carefully selected excursions that form a narrative, staying in one beautiful base location, with time and flexibility for reflection, and activities that are just plain fun.

Cuisine as a delectable complement to culture and conversation

Cuisine, and the wonderful dining experiences we share in an eclectic array of venues, provide a delectable complement to your rich encounters with the culture and the delightful conversation you enjoy with fellow travelers.

Arrangements

Arrangements for this journey will appear in this section as those arrangements are confirmed. The information provided here will tend to be of a more general nature. More detailed information, such as group flight times, will appear on the password protected Fellow Travelers page. Once you become part of this journey, you will be sent a password to access specific arrangements for this journey:

Flight Information

As a fellow traveler, you will have the flexibility to choose how you will join your cohort to formally begin your journey. Purposeful Journeys marks the formal beginning of your journey with the welcome reception and dinner at our destination hotel. On most journeys, you will have three options to join your cohort. Below are the options for joining your cohort with the primary advantage for each option:

  1. Join Your Cohort on Our Group Flight: On most journeys, Purposeful Journeys will arrange a group flight from a major airport in closest proximity and convenience for the majority of the cohort. The group flight will include a transfer from the destination airport to the hotel.
    Advantage: This is often the most cost effective and certainly the most convenient option.
  2. Meet Your Cohort at the Destination Airport: For a number of reasons, you may want to choose a flight other than the group flight and still meet your cohort in time to transfer from the destination airport to the hotel. Fellow travelers who choose this option will incur an additional cost for the transfer from the destination airport to the destination hotel.
    Advantage: Fellow travelers may find a balance between the convenience of choosing their own flight from an origination airport other than the airport where the group flight will depart while still taking advantage of the group transfer to the destination hotel.
  3. Meet Your Cohort at the Destination Hotel: As a fellow traveler, you may want to choose to meet your cohort at the destination hotel in time for the formal beginning of your journey with the welcome reception and dinner.
    Advantage: This option offers fellow travelers the most flexibility. Fellow travelers will need to weigh the flexibility of this option with what will likely be additional costs.

Group flights will usually be announced between 90 and 180 days prior to departure of your purposeful journey. Fellow travelers will be kindly requested to choose the option for meeting their cohort to formally begin their journey soon after group flight arrangements are announced.

Hotel Accommodations

Arrangements have been made for fellow travelers at hotels rated four star and above.

Ground Transportation

Ground transportation by deluxe travel coach will be provided throughout the journey. Transfers to and from the arrival flight into and departing flight from Europe will be provided as specified in the final itinerary.

Meals

Most meals are included in this purposeful journey. Dining in Europe tends to be as much of a leisurely event as a means of taking sustenance. Meals provide time for us to relax, taken in the culture, and discuss all that we have seen and experienced as fellow travelers that day. See the current, tentative itinerary for details.

Sightseeing and Events

This purposeful journey includes entrance fees to attractions as specified in the final itinerary.

Price

Land Only Cost—$3,550 (Please be sure to check for current discounts and incentives!)

Current Discounts and Incentives:

  • Ask about the host discount of up to $300
  • Settle your balance in full by the due date of your first payment and receive a discount of $150
  • Make payments by check instead of credit card and receive a discount of $150.
  • Deposits through December 31, 2024 are just $150. Your deposit will only become non-refundable with your first payment. Until then, you can cancel at any time.
  • NO PAYMENTS UNTIL 2025: Your first payment will not be due until January 2025.

Your journey includes:

  • Deluxe coach transportation throughout your itinerary
  • Double occupancy hotel room ($xxx single supplement)
  • Meals as specified in the final itinerary
  • Admission fees as specified in the final itinerary
  • Only goods, services, or activities as explicitly included in the General Terms and Conditions.

Your journey does not include:

  • Gratuities for service staff, coach driver(s) and guides
  • Alcoholic beverages, bottled water, after dinner drinks
  • Travel insurance
  • Any goods, services, or activities expressly excluded in the General Terms and Conditions.

Remittance Schedule:

  • Deposit of $150 is due with your application.
  • Payments due as specified in your remittance schedule.
  • Final payment must be received no later than the date specified on your invoice and remittance schedule.

When approved as a fellow traveler…

…you will receive an invoice and a remittance schedule from Malone Clan Expeditions, LLC along with a link to a password protected page on our website that will offer details and updates about your journey.

General Terms and Conditions

Malone Clan Expeditions, LLC will administer your journey. You must accept the General Terms and Conditions at the time you submit your application. Please refer to the General Terms and Conditions for any applicable additional fees that may apply in certain situations and circumstances such as any deviation from the group flight itinerary or your requirement of a single room.

We cordially invite you to apply to join us as a fellow traveler

Please complete the application form. You will be prompted to submit a payment deposit of $150 (regularly $300) with your application once your form is complete with all required fields. We are delighted you are taking the step of submitting your application to become a member of a journey with us. We look forward to notifying you of your acceptance as a fellow traveler.

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