River Currents Blog

River Currents is a blog open to many voices that have had a connection with the river and our trips. You’ll hear the voice of veteran river-runner and Holiday founder Dee Holladay, the voice of guides whose lives have been shaped by their time on the river, and guests who bring the perspectives that remind us why we’re still making these trips happen 45 plus years later. You’ll also hear the voice of and stories through our regular blog contributors, Peta Owens-Liston and Julie Trevelyan.

Category Archives: San Juan River Rafting

Women’s Trips: Nature and Self-Reflection

Holiday River Expeditions offers numerous opportunities for women to slip into nature, bond with each other, and the environment. These all-woman retreats are inspired by the belief in women’s innate affinities towards deep and soulful self-reflection, and strong desires to empower each other and empower themselves. By combining the calming and meditative practice of yoga … Read more

Top 5 Exciting Rafting Adventures for Families

By Kenzie Comstock Holiday River Expeditions lists the top 5  family river rafting vacations.  We all know that kids love to go to Disneyland but if they’ll love going on a family rafting trip just as much if not more.  You’ll get to spend all of your time together instead of having to branch off … Read more

Trip of the Week: The Family Friendly, San Juan River 3 & 4 days

by Julie Trevelyan San Juan River Rafting Floating down the San Juan River is a river rafting vacation made from sheer bliss. Family friendly rapids that are perfect for inflatable kayaking. Easy and accessible hiking to natural swimming pools and grottos. Follow the blue heron as you float through the famed Goosenecks. Explore and interpret … Read more

2012 Specialty Trip Line up: One-of-a-kind Rafting Adventures

Specialty, One-of-a-kind Rafting Adventures By Kenzie Comstock Holiday River Expeditions and their expert guides spun their knowledge about the best white water rafting into five specialty expeditions designed to awaken the senses and recharge the body. The Birding Field Trip starts the season off with and extended journey through Dinosuar National Monument down the Yampa … Read more

Family river rafting trips offer parents & children time to bond and experience the simplicity of life in the natural world

A Family-Bonding Experience By Kenzie Comstock Nestled deep in the heart of the western wilderness, lays an untamed magnificent beauty. Impressionable upon visitors and guests, the scenes from Mother Nature play out and unfold before their eyes. Eagles majestically swoop down to stalk their prey, their talons reaching across the landscape to pluck unsuspecting fish, … Read more

Strengthening Family Bonds on Multi-Generational River Trips

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~ Novelist Jane Howard By Peta Owens-Liston Blood is thicker than water, so goes the old adage, and days on the river with family serves to strengthen the ties … Read more

Five great reasons to take a women-only rafting trip:

By Julie Trevelyan Women Only Rafting Trips Sometimes, women just need an adventure trip without guys.  On an all-women river rafting trip, you can relax…perhaps not feel as much pressure to go bigger and bolder…and just be yourself. The truth of it is, sometimes women just need a girlfriend getaway, mother-daughter bonding, or simply time … Read more

Things to Do After or Before a San Juan River Trip

by Julie K. Trevelyan Floating the San Juan River is a fantastic river rafting vacation enjoyed by families looking to share some unique memories as well as those who are a little more mature in life. But what if you have some leeway in your vacation time and want to explore the area more in-depth … Read more

Our Committment to the Environment

Holiday Expeditions from the beginning has been active in promoting environmentally sensitive business practices. We are constantly striving to raise the bar on what we expect from ourselves as expedition operators in the wilderness as well as in our operations at the office and in the warehouse. Our commitment to the environment has been noticed … Read more