Another day in Amish Country

Bill and I took the dogs to a local dog park where they ran and played their hearts out. We brought them back to the RV and had lunch and then hopped in the Jeep and made our way to Strasburg, PA, with the intent of visiting a toy train museum but when we got there it was closed. We were pleasantly surprised when we discovered that next door was a motel made from train cabooses. It was neat.

From there we went to The Pennsylvania Railroad Museum also in Strasburg, PA. It was an amazing place. It was huge and housed a "brazillion" old trains. They had been completely restored and had complete descriptions of their use, construction and fate. There was a timeline describing the life and near demise of trains. After a 1/2 hour I wondered off to the gift shop but Bill went through the entire thing. He took pics from a catwalk overhead. It was fascinating. At the entrance they had a HO scale train that was great. I love small things.

ALL ABOARD!

When we finished at the museum we rode around the countryside once again marveling at the Amish farms. They work so hard. They harvest the tobacco by hand, one row at a time.  They also harvest the corn one row at a time. For the most part there isn't a weed to be found. They plant in small patches instead of acres and acres of corn or beans like we see in our area. We stopped at a small Amish restaurant and had a traditional meal. We got home and walked the dogs and kicked back but with limited TV Bill read and I worked on the blog.  Busy and interesting day. Didn't make it to the potter's because he never called back. You can only visit his gallery by appointment. Maybe tomorrow. We have to leave here tomorrow because the park is booked so we will head east in hopes of staying somewhere out of the reach of Earl.