Memorial Day
Have spent the last couple of days wandering south central Pennsylvania marking time before going to Washington D.C. area.
Yesterday we drove to Pottstown to shop for a mattress. Long way to go for a mattress but we were not far away and the factory has a showroom where you can try out everything (I know most mattress stores have that but they do not then custom make your mattress to your specs). Ordered mattress, will have to go back after D.C. to get it. We then headed south to the heart of Amish country. Middle of holiday weekend so had a little difficulty locating a camp spot. Finally did find spot in a nice but pricy RV resort. On the good side, they had an ice cream social that night.
Today we did some sightseeing and shopping in Intercourse, PA (Don’t ask how it got its’ name. Even the locals aren’t sure)
Large Amish population. Most of the surrounding farms are Amish and many of the homes in town are Amish.
It must have been wash day. We saw lots of full laundry lines everywhere.
When we drove we shared the road with many horse drawn buggies.
Many Amish communities are forbidden to ride bicycles. They do ride these. Pretty cool.
Wandered through several quilt stores and one quilt/fabric/souvenir store. Quilts are machine pieced and hand quilted. The stitches are so regular they look like they are done on a machine. Bed sized quilts range from $1500 to $3000 or more. Would turn your bed into a display piece never to be used again.
the RV park we are in tonight is surrounded by Amish farms. Our site is on the road and about half the traffic is buggies.
Tourist
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