Our *other* itinerary

[rivka]

Saturday July 24

Drive about two hours to Lancaster County, PA.

Check into the Greystone Manor B&B in Bird-in-Hand, where we have reserved adjoining double and single rooms with air conditioning.

Take a tour of Amish farm country by horse and buggy, visiting working farms on back roads where cars are not permitted. Then tour one house and farm in close-up detail. Inflict upon our poor, unsuspecting Spanish student the unique American cultural experience of the "corn maze."

Go back to the B&B to swim and change before dinner.

Eat Pennsylvania Dutch food.

Lounge about in the B&B for a quiet evening, possibly to include hot tubbing, games, reading, watching the sunset. Alternatively, try to inveigle fellow travelers into playing miniature golf.

Sunday July 25

Eat a big, indulgent German-American breakfast.

Visit the Lancaster County Quilt and Textile Museum.

Possibly wind up Sunday by renting kayaks and paddling around the Susquehanna. Alternatively, poke around in shops for a while and then head home.

Should provide an interesting contrast to the New York trip.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It would be hard to enforce the taxpayers paying for the roads and then not allowed to drive on them. Much as I admire and respect the Amish (there's a large community near here, and one of my sisters trades with them rides to the dentist or doctor for handmade goods), I don't think that the rest of society should finance roads that only they will use.

Your visit to the quiet countryside sounds lovely. I hope you are out in the evening, when they light their oil lamps after it's gotten quite dark. That's the most welcoming thing I have ever seen, even though the houses were owned by people I didn't know, who weren't actually welcoming anybody, let alone me.

K.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Your visit to the quiet countryside sounds lovely. I hope you are out in the evening, when they light their oil lamps after it's gotten quite dark. That's the most welcoming thing I have ever seen, even though the houses were owned by people I didn't know, who weren't actually welcoming anybody, let alone me.

We passed up the option to stay at a bed-and-breakfast on an actual working Amish farm, with no electricity and all the rest of it. I'm intrigued, though. I think that some other time, I'd like to do it - maybe when we could stay longer, and actually get into the rhythm of their lives for a bit.