While we were in New Holland, PA, we quickly realized we’d landed in the middle of Amish/Mennonite country – so I went to Mr. Google and found that yes, we are in the heart of Amish/Mennonite country!
According to the Mennonite Information Center website (Mennoniteinfocenter.org):
“The Mennonite Information Center is located in the heart of the Amish and Mennonite communities of Lancaster County, home of the oldest existing Amish settlement in the world.”
New Holland is a quaint little town with gorgeous scenery! But more interesting to me is how two totally different cultures live and work together.
We were being cautious of the buggies. I said to Trapper, “I wonder if they are as intrigued by us as we are by them?” His reply, “Probably not.”
Harvesting corn… looked like this…
Observing life happening, in many different ways, in this small community was a very nice take-away for me.
Today we left New Holland, PA and headed south to Colonial Beach, VA. It was a fairly long travel day (182 miles/4 hours) but you can bet traveling in an RV takes much longer!!
We’re en-route, I’m comfortable and then I look out the windshield! Holy Moly! No one told me about this!!! Are you kiddin’ me?! A tunnel? An underwater tunnel?!
I check my phone GPS and oh yea…. it’s an underwater tunnel. I hate these things! Hate them!!!! Now, I’m not having such a good time!
The approach to this crazy tunnel (which this isn’t the first one I’ve been through and I dislike all of them the same!) Just sayin’… it let’s you know if you’re overweight or too tall and the arrows you see would be red. We were GREEN. Really? I wanted to take the detour!
If we’d been RED – we would have been getting off here…. but we were GREEN!
And then it happened…. underwater we go!
And we go… the temperature was probably 15 degrees cooler and although you can’t see it in the photo we were descending!
If you want to read about this tunnel here’s a link: Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and yes, both of these lanes are actually going in the same direction.
I was glad to see the light at the end of the tunnel and get us out of there.
We finally arrive at Harbor View Campground and call it a day!
The next couple of weeks we’re only spending four nights (each) at different campgrounds working our way back south for Thanksgiving. I’m just going to throw a map up here to show you where we’ve been and where we landed.
We’re using our Thousand Trails membership so we have no out-of-pocket expense for camping. Camping on the east coast is totally different than the west…. it’s expensive! I’m glad we purchased the Thousand Trails package that we purchased in Arizona.
Here we go…
1151 miles later (from leaving our spot just south of Detroit)… here we are!
There was a ton of historical things to do along our route, but like I said before, History was my least fav and in my years of growing-up in the south… I’ve already seen most of them – through my younger years growing up. We were moving fairly quickly trying to utilize the parks available to us.
Stay tuned as we tackle a project I’ve wanted to do for a while and we fix the cabinet door!