Well, here we are in Amish country. In the heart of it. We are staying at an Inn in Charm OH. It's a beautiful Inn called Guggisberg Swiss Inn. It's a Swiss inn in the heart of Amish country. The parents of the Inn own the local cheese factory and the local Swiss Restaurant that also serves Amish food! So funny.
We toured the real back roads of Amish country today and saw many buggies go by. Buggies and kids on bikes, people walking, it's so cool. The pace is soooo much slower here. You hardly hear traffic and most of the time only hear the hoof beats of the horse on the cement as the Amish tour by. It's amazing the homes of the Amish, barns, large houses, houses with garages that park buggies, small barns which house horses etc. We have really enjoyed the Amish country so far.
After talking to the hotel clerk here at the Inn, we learned that the recession has hit the craft shops hard and some are suffering. She said they are a bit nervous coming into the summer with the recession as it is.
Today was a more relaxed day and we only focused on seeing the Amish country. We actually were done traveling at 6:15pm today. It's nice to just sit back. The roads in this area are very hilly and my stomach was doing flip flops on some of the hills while Julia and Chris were laughing at me. Did I mention that I don't even like roller coasters? The truck is doing very well on the hills and we are still happy with how it handles. We are so happy to have the cover on the truck box to make sure our stuff stays dry (or dryish, there are a few leaks in the cracks of the wood) and to put our stuff. The temperature here hovers around 10-18 degrees C. Amazing! In fact, when it now goes down to 9 we get cold now! What we will be like when we come? :)
We have to be very careful with the Amish buggies around here, we decided to stop touring around before it got too dark as some of the Amish don't have lights on their buggies. We made this decision after hearing there are quite a few buggy/car accidents in the area. We will stay in the hotel and wait till morning to get going. Early to be, early to rise, and we're in the perfect area to do this!
As we look out from our room, we only see lightly flickering lights in the houses of the small town as the lanterns are lit in some homes for light. There are regular folks living among the Amish, but the majority is Amish. Some Amish have solar lights, some have generators and some have gas lanterns. It all depends on how strict their sect is. (I read a lot of Amish books)
Tomorrow we are off to tour just a bit more of the country and then off to the Crystal Caverns by West Liberty OH. Then to Columbus again.
We haven't shopped much, just here and there.
Well, here's to an early night for us.
Jacklyn
March 31
6 comments:
Well, Well!! Jacklyn, your dream come true to see Amish Country!!!
I'm so happy for you! I hope Chris & Julia are enjoying it as well.
Luv ya!!
doesn't it make you want to embrace the simpler side of life?
Yes ... I'm more and more attracted to keeping it simple. I think it's got to be a ton of work ... but still, like you said, slower.
wm-yes totally taking on the simpler life would be awesome, although I could list a lot of things I think I would miss.
monica- I am attracted to the simpler life more and more too. Although I don't think I would become Amish myself, I would think that even living amongst them would make life slower and more enjoyable.
Thanks mom! we love it in Amish country and it was definitely a dream come true, now all the books I read about Amish will be somehow more real.
Glad to hear you are having a good time, drive safe. I could never move to Amish country, not enough tractors......hahahaha. Have a good time at Equine affair. From Earl
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