We arrived swiftly and incident free yesterday in Philadelphia to continue our travels. I say incident free lightly, we were almost sent back home!
Apparently, as the Customs man explained, we are spending too long in the USA on our visa. He let us through this time but was real helpful in explaining how the system works, well he almost made it clear to us. We have tried to ask before but seems to me they are not crystal clear themselves. But he was a sweetie and let us in. Phew!
Our beautiful Dodge started first time and we sped away into Amish Farmlands area in Lancaster County, Philadelphia and stayed in a motel in Ronks.Today we will have a look around the Amish area and visit a place called Intercourse! On that note I will leave you till next time.
We tried Shoo Fly Pie in this place - Roy liked it, I was not keen, made of molasses and other fattening stuff!
So Thursday dawned hot and humid and we toured round the Amish area and saw a little of their way of life. Tried to take photos for my daughter in law in an unobtrusive way. I think Roy quite liked the idea of their lifestyle!
In Intercourse we spent a yummy hour in the Kitchen Kettle Village, watching the Amish in the cannin' and jammin' kitchen where they make over 80 different products from jams and jellies to relishes, salsas, salad dressings and grilling sauces. Every item can be sampled and we did our best to test them. It's the first time I've actually see Roy buy something, he was busy selecting 6 little pots of jams and some apple butter.
We moved towards York and the slight leak Roy had found on the Dodge worsened and then the water pump broke, then the fan belt broke, then we couldn't move anywhere. But how lucky were we when it broke - parked in the Dodge garage. So the nice man let us leave it there and because they could not repair it till Wednesday Roy is going to fix it tomorrow morning when the part arrives. Super 8 motel for the night then and fingers crossed my man can fix it. He went back and removed broken pump ready for new one tomorrow then came back on his bike. We have had massive thunderstorm this evening, fortunately we were in Friendlys restaurant!
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| Amish buggy with girl and boy in back |
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Life on the Amish farm |
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| Amish barn |
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| Covered bridge |
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a different type of Amish buggy |
Great pics Amish country looks idiylic, Angie packing her bags! dont know if she could cope without the hairstraitners though!! Hope the Dodge fixing went ok.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dodge fine now. Dont think I could live the Amish way of life but tell Angie she wont have to learn to drive a car just the buggy and horse!
DeleteGood start guys.
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