Day 50. Sept 25, 2013. In Amish country!

Hard to believe that we have been on the road for 50 days!  Left Scranton, stopping to shop on our way out of town.  George got me a birthday present..see photo.  They are called pie irons.  You can make all kinds of food in them, and stick in the fire to cook.  Meats, sandwiches, eggs, etc...even pies!

We stopped in a pub where they brew their own beer, and make breads and  artisan cheeses.  yum.

Drove on back roads.  This is really rich farm country.  Our destination was near Lancaster, PA, Amish farmlands.  The Amish have interesting names for their towns....Bird in the Hand, Blue Balls, and Intercourse.  Of course, George wanted to stay in Intercourse.  We drove into town, passing about 50 Amish buggies, as we headed for a campsite advertised as being next to Amish farms.  They didn't have any vacancies, about which we were surprised, but actually it was ok as the campsite  was pretty smelly with the adjoining farm's manure, and the roads were full of the Amish horses' "road apples"!

Drove back into town. It looked like the Amish school was having a fall festival.  The buggies were streaming into town, and the Amish town dwellers were walking to the school.  About 1000 kids and adults

were there. The "English" are definitely the minority.  

By the time we found another campsite, it was late and getting dark.  Supper was thankfully easy to prepare.  I just warmed up the dish I had made in the hotel....beans and rice with leftover porkloin, seasoned with cumin, cayenne and chipotle, plus the leftover spinach/arugula salad.  Beautiful fall evening.  We fell asleep listening to the clippity-clop of the horses' hoofs of the buggies returning to their homes.