About Us

 

We take small groups on big tours!

New View Tours offers a fresh take on small group travel. With over fifteen years of experience, Ramelle and Michael enjoy planning the tours they have taken on their own with others.  They specialize in focused tours, either hiking, nature, or art tours for practicing artists, writers, photographers and appreciators. The couple enjoy providing adventurers custom designed for the clients’ interests. Each tour is a professionally planned travel itinerary. In some cases, New View Tours will partner with local travel providers who they know through a network of reliable, time tested sources.

New View Tours represents an idea – a commitment to sharing popular travel destinations by tailoring trip itineraries to individual interests and appropriate activity level. Ramelle and Michael often accompany the group to facilitate these new experiences, especially when they are able to introduce travelers to local friends.

While modern travel is more accessible than ever before, our increasingly global society makes unique regional experiences more difficult to find. As the circumstances for travel change, the couple are careful to stay up to date with safety protocols and travel advisories to avoid difficulties.

New View Tours ensures the utmost quality for travelers, including unique local offerings, comprehensive logistic planning, travel tips, preliminary checklists, and the peace-of-mind that comes with leaning into the winds of adventure with the wisdom of comrades.

Who are we?

RAMELLE

Ramelle is a life long traveler, an art enthusiast, a writer; a mother of three children (who are all married now) and the wife of one.

In 2010 Ramelle and Michael moved to a summer family cottage in Stockbridge MA. They welcomed the winter season after being in Winston-Salem NC for 20 years. At the same time, New View Tours to offered opportunities to take winter sojourns with small group tours to friends. The company started as a continuation the work she had done for Associated Artists.

For twelve years, Ramelle worked as a docent at the Norman Rockwell Museum giving tours of the art galleries to visitors from all over the world. It is always fascinating to meet people who go out of their way to find a collection of an artist, particularly the exquisite paintings by the iconic American illustrator.

Ramelle grew up in Milton MA. She attended the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado, and then Pitzer College in Claremont California. After teaching pregnancy, birth and recovery exercise classes for fifteen years in various studios and hospital settings, she earned a MEd. at University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG) in School Health and Community Education.

In her professional roles she taught general art classes at Winston Salem State University, coordinated the Triad Leadership Network in Greensboro, NC, and was the Executive Director of Associated Artists of Winston Salem. She opened Hawthorne Gallery of Art for a good run before the move to the Berkshires.

She serves on Board of the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in Stockbridge and the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, CO.

 

MICHAEL

An avid adventurer, outdoor enthusiast, and yoga practitioner, Michael is committed to melding his passions. Michael has been employing this ability with New View Tours since its conception, using vacation days from his role as a TV executive with WXII-TV in Winston Salem to co-lead tours. After his retirement in 2010, he became a certified yoga instructor through the Kripalu Center, and enjoys leading private classes now and during trips. Michae  serves on the Stockbridge Library Board, He also plays tennis, pickle ball, croquet and enjoys hiking.

Michael studied at Harvard, class of ’75, earned his MFA in Film Production from the American Film Institute, and MBA from Wake Forest University.

Michael and Ramelle have three grown children, eight grand children, and a new poodle puppy that make every day an adventure at home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.