September 14, 2010 - Tuesday
Appx Return: 7:30 PM

Price: $102 per person

"Simpler Times "

Sherman, NY

Meet our step-on guide in Sherman, New York, to learn of simpler times as we travel the scenic country roads to Amish country. Begin the day with a complete Amish home tour. This is a modern English home converted for simpler times living.

A small gift shop is available for homemade jellies, hand crafted items, and baked goods.

Lunch will be in an Amish home where lunch will be served family-style and includes the main entrée, plus mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetables, homemade bread, and pies with coffee and tea. The food is delicious, very plentiful, and duplicates an Amish wedding feast.

After lunch, shop for hand-woven rugs. Each person will be able to take a horse drawn buggy ride around their farm.

Visit an English 1800’s school house, complete with its original blackboard, double seats, double door entrance, books, and lunch buckets. Your “teacher” will demonstrate the rules of readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmetic. You’ll also learn about some 1800’s children games.

NOTE: Modern bathrooms are not available. Smoking and photo taking is not permitted.

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Akron

6:30 AM
7:15 AM
7:30 AM

Holines is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people.
It is meant for you and for me and for all of us.
It is simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.
- Mother Theresa -

September 15, 2010 - Wednesday
Appx Return: 9:45 PM

Price: $112 per person

"Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride"

Lockport, New York

Board the motorcoach and relax as we make our way to Lockport, New York. We'll arrive at Fieldstone Country Inn for a fulfilling lunch. Begin our day of adventures with a tour through America's past. Explore the historic Erie Canal Locks constructed in 1838 and view ruins from an earlier industrial age. Wear your walking shoes because we'll walk safely through a water tunnel that was blasted out of solid rock in the 1850's while viewing stalactites, flow stone, various geological formations, and artifacts left behind by the men who built the tunnel in the early days of the Erie Canal. If we're lucky we may even find a fossil or two.

The next part of our journey will be a one-of-a-kind underground boat ride. Make sure you have your jacket or sweater as we embark on America's longest underground boat ride through a trip of wonders. View cave formations in their early stages of developments. We will be awestruck as we take a ride that has been described as both "peaceful and eerie" as the boat glides through the lifeless water, illuminated only by small, sporadically placed electric lights. Marvel at artifacts left by the miners over a century ago.

Afterwards, spend some time in beautiful Niagara Falls, New York for some shopping and sightseeing on your own before departing for home with great memories of our adventurous day.

NOTE: This tour requires walking and includes stairs.

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Mentor

7:15 AM
7:30 AM
8:00 AM

September 24, 2010 - Friday
Appx Return: 5:00 PM

Price: $95 per person

"International Tour of Cleveland"

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland's international heritage is tied to the many immigrant groups that came here in search of a better life, while maintaining the rich traditions, legacies and customs of their native lands.

Our tour will take us to visit a number of ethnic and historical sites in this place we call home. Start by seeing the site where Moses Cleveland first landed in 1796, declaring this the capital city of the Western Reserve. We'll see where later immigrants settled like Irishtown Bend and we'll go by an Ohio City Church that had hidden tunnels to help slaves on the Underground Railroad escape to the banks of the Cuyahoga, for boats to take them to Canada. We'll also visit Lorenzo Carter Cabin in the flats.

Then, we're off to stop at a German store that imports specialty items from Germany and middle-European countries. Also, visit a Greek Bakery that specializes in homemade Greek delicacies. A brief visit to the Westside Market is planned with time to take pictures from the balcony overlooking this wonderful Cleveland landmark.

Travel from Public Square to Playhouse Square with a visit to a Lebanese Import house right in the heart of the original Big Italy.

Enjoy lunch at Sterle's Slovenian Restaurant and visit a small bakery where all the bakers worked for Hough Bakery (you will not be disappointed).

We'll travel to Little Italy, and if parking allows, we'll visit on the main street of this great neighborhood. Afterwards, complete the day by stopping at the most unusual store where you'll experience a trip to the Far East, right in our own backyard. Join us as we see many different ethnic cultures and learn the history that makes Cleveland a wonderful mosaic of people and places.

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Akron

8:30 AM
8:15 AM
7:45 AM

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt -