Monday Aug 27 and 28, 2007 Roamers Retreat Campground, Kinzers, PA
This is a beautiful cool day in the 70’s and a beautiful drive to Kinzers where we will stay 2 nights. We are taking some back roads which are very narrow. Every few miles we go through a small town and most are very clean and have attractive homes. As we get closer to Kinzers we are seeing many small farms and lots of agriculture. There are huge fields of corn. One surprising things we see growing here is tobacco. We see fields where it has been cut and piled up like a corn shock where it drys somewhat before they put it in the barns.
This is a beautiful cool day in the 70’s and a beautiful drive to Kinzers where we will stay 2 nights. We are taking some back roads which are very narrow. Every few miles we go through a small town and most are very clean and have attractive homes. As we get closer to Kinzers we are seeing many small farms and lots of agriculture. There are huge fields of corn. One surprising things we see growing here is tobacco. We see fields where it has been cut and piled up like a corn shock where it drys somewhat before they put it in the barns.
This area has a large population of Amish. Small farms, very close together dot the landscape. It is quite a picturesque view of the countryside. Everything is green and very healthy. They do no irrigating and really do not need to. The Amish in this area do not use any form of powered transportation. They use horses with buggies, wagons, plows and/or other farm equipment....except it is ok to use tractors if they do not have rubber tires and it is ok to use generators and power driven tools.
Nearly every home has clothes hanging on the line and they have their clothes line on a pulley so that they can just real in the clothes. Notice the pulley at the top of the clothesline pole for realing in the clothes. We have not seen that since the olden days.
Roamers Retreat is a very nice campground with lots of shade. We will be here 
only long enough to the Sight and Sound Musical Production in Strasburg. Our friends, Jay and Betty, are coming from Delaware to go with us. Tuesday noon we had a nice soup and salad at home for lunch and then Jay drove us around to see the Amish countryside; we stopped at one Amish store and also saw a short film on the Mennonite and Amish faiths. If you are interested in learning about the Amish people and their faith:
http://www.800padutch.com/amish.shtml
only long enough to the Sight and Sound Musical Production in Strasburg. Our friends, Jay and Betty, are coming from Delaware to go with us. Tuesday noon we had a nice soup and salad at home for lunch and then Jay drove us around to see the Amish countryside; we stopped at one Amish store and also saw a short film on the Mennonite and Amish faiths. If you are interested in learning about the Amish people and their faith:http://www.800padutch.com/amish.shtml
