An idea to help on future tours:
Have the Group Leader take roll call each time the bus leaves to ensure that all clients have boarded. On the recent London trip, the bus had to return on two different times to pick up clients who were left behind - once when the bus left the hotel to go to the game and again when the bus left the stadium to return to the hotel. Each time returning to pick up clients cost us 15-20 minutes needlessly.
As part of my involvement with the Oklahoma Honor Flights, we have taken 50-60 veterans to Washington, DC each time on 8 different occasions. We make 7-8 stops in DC to tour the memorials. At each stop, roll call is taken to ensure that no one is left behind. A very simple step that saves a ton of time and worry.
- Doug Eaton