<p>Marite...great idea. I almost signed up for the Stanford Amazon trip this spring, but finally realized I was living in a dream world--leave the girls for 10 days with all of their activities and logistical challenges and just daily needs?--wouldn't work. </p>
<p>I would love to do a walking or biking tour of Italy or Spain with all of you! (We could report back on European colleges or high school students or something, perhaps?)</p>
<p>However, I am not aware of any grounds upon which such trips are deductible. Travel expenses which are deductible are those related to your business, so you would have to go somewhere and somehow tie it in with your business. I used to know an English professor who deducted his trips abroad to visit, e.g., English gardens or Spanish historical places on the grounds that he then wove those into his lectures and reading lists. It seems just a tiny bit of a stretch, to me, but in truth he really did become a student on those trips. So professors perhaps could do so but I'd have to go sit in the family law courts or something to have a prayer of deducting.</p>
<p>NOT to get too political but maybe when Bush overhauls the tax system he'll give us a new tax break on this.....</p>