Day 11- Amish Country and Dayton Ohio

First, kudos go out to Rusty for pointing us in the right direction regarding the Amish country and good food.  Also, kudos goes to our daughter-in-law, Angela, who works for Trader Joe’s and helped us shop for our food supplies for the motor home.  Everything we have eaten has been scrumptious.  Thanks Rusty and Angela!

Well, just to let you know there really are people who live as if they are in the 1800’s.  We saw them.  We saw them tilling their soil using a horse drawn plow, traveling along the road in a horse drawn carriage and picking up their cut hay using a horse-drawn wagon with men using pitch forks throwing it up on the wagon.  Way cool.  The men all dress alike and have the Lincolnesque beard, kind of like the beard my son is sporting.  The women all have their hair in buns covered by a little hat.  Of course, the women all wear plain dresses. 

Hand-made quilts made by the Amish were one of my Mom’s wishes for this trip.  Well I have to say she is an over achiever.  She didn’t buy just one quilt….not just two quilts….I am not going to say how many she bought because it might make my Dad have another anxiety attack.  She had a blast.  Vacationing with just adults is a different kind of fun, unlike doing things with your grandkids and seeing things for the first time through their eyes.   Although watching my Mom get to fulfill something that she has wanted to do for a long time was just as fun.  I am glad I get to be here with her and my dad on this trip.

The one on the right is NOT me.

We went to eat at a hole in the wall restaurant that was excellent.  I had chicken noodle dressing casserole with green beans.  It was very country, very comfort-food good.   No Berkeley tofu in Amish country.  We tried the sweet potato fries and didn’t like them too much.  They served them with cinnamon butter.  Too sweet, fries should be salty was the consensus.

We went to a very cool store called Lehmans.  It had 19^th century farming tools throughout the store and also some cool kitchenware, stoves and tools.  Of course, John and I bought some Lehman soda, in the bottle and some homemade fudge.  I can’t remember what Mom and Dad bought.  Anyway, we finally take off to make it to our first KOA campground in Dayton Ohio.

We made it to the campground by 7:30 pm.  John cooked the awesome Trader Joe’s steaks and vegetables.  Mom and I cut up potatoes for fried potatoes and put together an awesome salad.  Our first dinner camping out was delicious.  Another great day on the road to California.

Next:  National Air Force Museum and then destination Wisconsin Dells, Wisconson.