We found a lovely RV park off the beaten path in Intercourse Pennsylvania. Rush hour consisted of an occasional horse drawn buggy.The park overlooks Amish farmland with the farmer bringing in the last of his crop with a team of 6 horses.We have an area to sit and enjoy  the viewWhen we arrived on Tuesday I was tired, really tired, and by Wednesday morning I awoke just plain exhausted. We haven’t stopped a single day since we left on Sept 2, except for an occasional day that we stayed in a camp to do housekeeping and laundry. I slept a lot and just stayed in camp all day .
Luckily it was just a one day event and today we were out visiting the town

There is a large shopping area where 8 very large tour buses were parked, as well as 3 smaller ones.
We found a business that offered horse drawn buggie rides for 55 minutes through the countryside. Our host was John. He had grown up in this area, married an Amish woman and at the age of 34 decided he did not want to be Amish anymore. He was excommunicated from the Amish and he and his family went to New Mexico to live. At the age of 76 he and his wife returned and they are practicing Menninite. Poor guy was guiding our trip ( with 2 other patrons) and I peppered him with questions. We have seen Amish in Ohio, Indiana and now Pennesvania. Customs seem so different in each area and he was very kind and generous in answering all my questions honestly.One of the sites we saw was a covered bridge

  1. I never understood that these bridges were built covered to have a place to rest your horse when sudden foul weather arose.
    When we returned to where we had started there was a rebuilt, renewed, covered wagon as those used to settle America. I remarked that if we traveling across the country 200+ years ago that would have been our mode of transportation.

    We are very grateful we are in Gladys instead.