Seats are Filling Fast!

The June 9th Arts, Amish & Adventures tour will be here before we know it! Reserve your spot NOW! Sign the form and fax it to 1-800-346-0173. You don't have to be a senior to enjoy the factual and theatrical commentary of Rose Szwed, tour guide of more than 10 years.

Enjoy the HIGH-spirited commentary of long-time tour guide Rose Szwed whose knowledge and relationship with the Amish allows for a personalized tour experience unavailable to most other tourists!

Tour includes: • The Amish in their homes • A hearty Amish meal • An authentic Amish Pharmacy • Horse and buggies on the road en route to their destination • Amish grocery stores powered by propane and hand-cranked items • Amish Community Garden and Horse Farm • Horse-shoeing demonstration • A Mennonite Country Market • A small Amish retail business, owned by two sisters • And Much More!!!

Tour the unique world of Michigan’s Southwestern Amish society. JUNE 9, 2011 BUS LEAVES AT 8:30 A.M. AND RETURNS AT 6:30 P.M.

PEER BEHIND THE CURTAIN; EXPERIENCE THE INS-AND-OUTS OF THE AMISH.

COST: $80/person INCLUDES: Roundtrip Motorcoach, meal, goodie bag, beverage, commentary, prizes, some fun, wonderful surprises and an end-of-tour test. Register TODAY, call 248.619.6692 to reserve your seat! Make checks payable to Step On Bus Tours. These trips always offer loads of unique photo opportunities!

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A Book Lover's Paradise

Tales From the Reading Room is one of Step On's tours for book lovers, readers and the curious. There will be plenty of stops on this dynamic bookaholic tour. Expect to purchase printed and electronic reading materials. There will be tours of new and used bookstores, a little known museum showing books made in 700 AD and famous documents under glass at non-typical places. Speakers will delight and astound. Each tour is guided by Rose Szwed and she'll fill each passenger with factual and semi-theatrical knowledge. For the book lover its a non-fiction come to life! Each tour includes lunch, a round-trip motorcoach, goodie bags and an end-of-tour test with possible prizes. If you're a book lover, you'll LOVE this tour! Sign up today at StepOnBusTours@gmail.com or call 248-619-6692.

Students Go On Adventures with SOBT

Do your students yawn during history lessons? Do they ask for more fun ways to learn? Do you want to make learning even more exciting for your home-schooled students? Now you can, with Step On Bus Tours.

These tours are rich in history and facts relayed through interactive commentary and bus stops that allow them to experience hands-on history. Each tour is given by Step On Bus Tour’s Rose Szwed who has more than 10 years of experience as a guide and fosters relationships with each business and property owner to give attendees a thorough and incomparable tour experience.

Step On Bus Tours prides itself on giving personalized, factual and semi-theatrical tours all in an educational and entertaining manner. There are so many tours to choose from that you and your students will love.

Tours Include:
· Arts, Amish and Adventure: Touring the Amish society in Southwestern Michigan with the largest contingency of Amish in the state who are also the most traditional sect

· Quilts, Quakers and Questors: An Underground Railroad Tour through mid to Southwest Michigan. Featuring Underground Railroad Stops, Monuments, Grave of Sojourner Truth, Underground Memorial Highway, Ramptown-the city that vanished and more.

· Michigan’s Southwest Sacred Sites, Shrines and Sanctuaries – Visitors from around the country are coming to the Energy Vortex and you can, too. Feel the energy as you meditate and expand your knowledge. Visit the public retreat centers such as The Hermitage with 62 acres of rolling hills and trails for leisurely walking, or take a 20 mile walking tour. The Dali Lama has come to southwest Michigan to meditate in a barn.

And so many more!

To register for your tour call 248-619-6692 or email us at StepOnBusTours@gmail.com. Make all checks payable to Step On Bus Tour.

Gear Up to Get Out---of Town that Is

June 9 is fastly approaching, have you saved your seat on our Amish, Arts and Adventures Tour? ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!!

Step On Bus Tours is offering a fast-paced one-day tour June 9, 2011 featuring the unique Amish society in Southwestern Michigan. Open to the public, the tour departs and returns from and to the Wixom and Northville Senior Centers where there is plenty of free and safe parking. Enjoy a fun and informative feature presentation on the Amish in Southwest, MI and a hearty, homemade lunch in an Amish home. The $80 tour includes a roundtrip motor coach, goodie bags, an end-of-tour test with prizes and high-spirited commentary.

You’ll also get a few surprises and close encounters you won’t experience on most tours. Gather your friends or sign up for yourself! The tour will depart from the Northville Community Senior Center at 303 W. Main, Northville, MI 48167 at 8 a.m. and the Wixom Senior Center located at 49015 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, MI 48393 at 8:30 a.m.

Tours Include:

· An authentic Amish Pharmacy where old-fashioned remedies are the norm
· Horse and buggies en route to their destination
· Amish grocery stores powered by propane
· Horse-shoeing demonstration
· A Mennonite Country Market
· A small Amish retail business owned by two sisters
· A quaint apple farm of a by-gone era
· And More!

You’ll see the historic landmarks and hear the history, as well as legends of old, while traveling with your tour director who has more than 10 years of experience. She makes sure each tour is personalized with enthusiastic and theatrical commentary.
To register today call 248-619-6692 or email StepOnBusTours@gmail.com.

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Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine a world with no art? No architecture? No sculptures? No history? Well that's no world at all! Don't take for granted the beauty that makes life. Turn every page, lift every rock, smell every flower and read every plaque. There's more "out there" than you can imagine, all you have to do is look.

Step On Bus Tours helps you look for the art, achitecture, sculptures and history that is lost on so many people. Rose Szwed is well acquainted with each location she leads her tourists through and wants to give you the experience of a lifetime.

Life is too short to ignore the mind-expanding, wisdom-giving, and knowledge-bearing information in it.

~I bet you never dreamed that you could be where the Dali Lama has been, Step On Bus Tours can take you there.

~Never dreamed you'd be at an actual Underground Railroad stop? Step On can take you there.

~Never imagined you'd see the largest contingency and most traditional sect of Amish society? Step On can take you there!

If you can dream it, we can beat it! It's what we do - we travel from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois showing you the wonders of the world that many people forget to mention.

Take advantage of our tours today, visit http://www.steponbustours.com/ to find many of our tour choices, email StepOnBusTours@gmail.com for more information or call 269-619-6692 to register and get further details, TODAY!

Take Advantage

The forecast is looking up for this weekend, not too cold and not so dreary-some sunshine is on the menu, so what should you do? Get out and explore your city, town or state. There's always more than meets the eye and you have a responsibility to find it.

You can always start small, walk a mile, in your own shoes of course, from your home or office and observe your surroundings. What do you notice this time that you never did before? Are you intrigued yet? The next time you take a walk, walk a little further, or start from a different location; what did you see?

Was there art work along the way, great architecture that you seen? What about interesting people? There's always something to learn, that's why at Step On, we want you to come along, not just for the ride but to experience something new, get intrigued, peak your interest and then you can take it from there.

Our tours are specialized and personalized because your tour guide takes the time to go for a long walk. Much of what you'll see on our tours is exclusive, you won't see it on many "similar" tours because she gets to know the people on her route, digs a deeper route for you, the passenger, to learn and enjoy.

The theatrical commentary that is still factual is just a bonus to all the sites, landmarks and people you'll get to see. But you don't have to wait on us, get out there! Go exploring!

If you need a little push, that's fine too! Call us to save a seat on the next bus, 248-619-6692 or email us at StepOnBusTours@gmail.com.

YOUR World Awaits!

Oftentimes, when we thing of a vacation or a trip we think of leaving the state. We always want to get away, we think we've seen all there is to see at home...but what if you haven't? Are you a Michigander? If so, have you seen the underground railroad stops and monuments that our state has? We played a pivotal role in escorting slaves to their freedom.

Have you seen our Amish society is Southwest Michigan? It's one of the largest Amish communities in the country.

Have you seen the place where the Dali Lama meditated in a barn? He came all the way to OUR energy vortex to meditate.

Have you seen the old houses, now haunted and guarded by pets that are now dead?

If you answer no to any of these questions, there's so much more to see! And Step On Bus Tours can help you see it all!

There's an adventure around every corner and Step On lets you enjoy it on the bus or you can get out and take a look around. Each tour is accessible to many mobility levels and infused with theatrical and factual commentary. Whether you're a history buff or just looking for a good time, any of these tours can be for you! Your tour guide has built a relationship with owners, Amish and natives along the way to afford you one of the most interesting and indulging tours you'll ever take!

So take advantage, tours are $80 and include a motorcoach, goodie bags, and end-of-tour test wit prizes and more!

To book your tour call 248-619-6692 or email Rose at StepOnBusTours@gmail.com. Tour solo or with a friend but you're bound to have a ball either way!

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Hidden Gems!

It's always fun to learn something new. To play around with the idea and dynamics of a thing in your mind. But what do you do with it once you think of it? Act on it, of course! What' s your big idea? Where do you want to go? What do you want to see? With a world as vast as ours how could you think that there were only 7 wonders in this world?! :) Did you ever think there could be something exotic, amazing and truly worth seeing in your own state, in your own country? Well, there is and just because you may not be able to afford to travel to Paris, Italy, Brazil or Yemen doesn't mean you can't see some of the world's greatest treasures. Every city, state and small town has treasures too. I don't know about you but it might be cooler to see the "hidden gems."

Travel with Step On Bus Tours to some of the best kept secrets of Michigan.

Who says no to that!?! Let us make you an offer you can't refuse (o_O), just kidding. But surely this is an offer you can't refuse! Visit http://www.steponbustours.com/ and click on Tour Choices and Tour Cities to learn more about the great treasures that can be hiding right under your nose!

Travel Time

"I have learned as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seatbelt. The most remarkable things follow." ~Julia Cameron, author, The Artist Companion

Spring is about to be Sprung and now is the time do something! Plan what you'll do for that first glorious getaway. Plan a trip for you and your friends, you and your significant other or the ever-optional, plan a trip just for you!

Get out of your winter-time depression and funk. Explore even your surroundings, there's beauty in everything as long as you look for it. You don't have to blow all your vacation savings in one place either, take a bus trip and open yourself up to the opportunity of a lifetime. With Step On Bus Tours you can see things you wouldn't even have access to if you DID go it alone! It's a great time to sign up for a tour of Amish society, the Underground Railroad, places that used to be churches, haunted towns, and so much more and see it to your heart's content.

Be who you want to be, have what you've always wanted and do what you've always planned! Take that trip, because you deserve it and it doesn't take too much, just a phone call :)

Drop your car off in a safe parking lot that you don't have to pay for and get on the bus. It's easier to learn in a group anyway so tour with us and learn more. Do something for yourself that you may not have done otherwise, do a Step On Bus Tour.

Call 248-619-6692 or email us at steponbustours@gmail.com. Tours include lunch, goodie bags, an after tour test with prizes, factual and theatrical commentary and a round trip motorcoach all for only $80.

Oh, the Sites to Behold!

This is only one of the great monuments you will see on the Quilts, Quakers and Questors tour. This picture was taken just two days ago on our tour through Southwest Michigan.

The paths of freedom were the tracks of the Underground Railroad and many led to Michigan, in particular Battle Creek, Schoolcraft, and Cassopolis as African American slaves sought the best route to Canada.

This Michigan tour visits historic sites of undeniable interest to all who would show solidarity with the brave resistance in our state. The Step On Tour Guide knows about the Underground Railroad and will inform you in a fun and delightful manner of the conductors and travelers along the route.

The tour includes historic sites such as the gravesite of Ms. Sojourner Truth, Kimball House where Ms. Truth lived and hid slaves, sites of the Kentucky Raid, Quaker Historic Homes and so much more.

These trips always offer great photo opportunities (as you can see) so be sure to bring your camera. Each tour includes a roundtrip motorcoach, goodie bags, an end-of-tour test with prizes and lunch and high-spirited commentary.

Visit http://www.steponbustours.com/ to learn more or email steponbustours@gmail.com or even call 248-619-6692.

Art in the Strangest Places!

It's all in how you look at it! That saying means a lot when you try to consider what is art versus what is not. There's art all over and all around. Art is more than a painting or sculpture. It's more than a painting from a paintbrush but instead, its the actual burst of color that makes your mind react.

We took a walk through Ferndale, MI and discovered art in some of the strangest places, from the graffiti art, cinematic art and so much more!

What art have you seen that you overlooked because it was in a strange place?

Take the next few days to recognize art. The structures and architecture, the curve of stone worn from the wind. Art can be found all around us, all we have to do is look. It's all in your you look at it!