Drive to Hickory Hollow CG, Rockwood, PA

Southwest Pennsylvania is hilly!  Very steep uphill, then steep downhill.  Like riding a roller coaster.
But it sure is pretty here, and God has air-conditioned the place for us too!  High of 73 Wednesday and 69 on Thursday.

The following pictures are simply road shots leading to our next campground.

Beautiful farmland:

And finally we arrive at Hickory Hollow campground!  Cool, quiet and peaceful. 

See our mobile condo hiding in the trees?

We can now fly our flag.

It has been very peaceful here, giving us time to catch up on personal business.  Tomorrow we leave for West Virginia and on to our next stop in Ohio.

Flight 93 Memorial

Flight 93 National Memorial has been started and construction continues with a projected completion date of late 2015.  Probably because it is out of the way, not too many visitors have been here.
This was a moving experience. Just think that everyone on this flight knew they were going to die one way or another so they chose to not let the terrorists win.  

There were many acres of new trees planted.  

This picture shows the visitor shelter and memorial and crash site.

Due to the delay of Flight 93 passengers began to learn of the other plan crashes.
 

People on the neighboring farms said they could shiny pieces in the black smoke plume.

The piece of the plane pictured is the largest piece they found.  Imagine the explosion.

These are all the brave souls on board Flight 93.

Every one of their names is listed on this wall.

This boulder marks the final resting place of the plane.  The government decided a boulder was the most politically correct marker to use.  ;-(

This sitting area faces the crash path and wall of names.

AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) Museum

This was our best stop in Hersey, PA.  Tic took tons of pictures but I'm only going to put some of the pictures in the blog.

See the Hershey Kissmobile parked out front?  There will be a close up below.

This car was parked out at the entrance.  Tic is not sure what it is.  Any ideas anyone?

This old bus was also parked at the entrance. 

 

This old plow was in the parking lot.

Here is a closeup of the Kissmobile.

Corvairs are one of Tic's and his friend Ralph's favorite cars. This picture is dedicated to Ralph.

This Indian was in the lobby.  Notice the oil on the floor. 8-(

Here is a restored hearse.  After being restored, it does not carry bodies,

it carries booze!

Aren't these old delivery trucks something?

 

1930 Packard Speedster.  Would do 100 mph.

 

1910 Buick

The staff at this museum were very helpful, informative, and gracious, allowing us to open doors, and examine closely the vehicles on display.  I did not take photos of the Greyhound bus that had a uniformed driver and on-board uniformed hostess.  But we had a full tour.

This museum also has a number of foreign antiques as well.  I will only share one.  A 1936 Datsun!  Today known as Nissan.  Forerunner of the Z-Cars!

Amish in Lancaster County, PA

Today, Monday, we drove to Bird-in-hand, PA near Lancaster.  There are approximately 31,000 Amish in this county. We decided to take a 60 min ride that went to a farm.  We got into a horse drawn buggy to start a tour.  At the driver's farm, we got out and walked around and learned how they work their farm.  We were surprised to learn that they use solar panels, and batteries with LEDs to light their way at night.

As we got out of the Jeep, this farmer was cultivating his field with a 6 horse team.  He moved that team amazingly quick.

This is the carriage we rode in.  Tic and I sat in the front with the driver.  The carriage is parked at the farm we went to.  Our driver was a retired farmer.  Driving this carriage is his retirement job.  We actually went to his farm that one of his son's now runs.  He has 2 sons and 3 daughters.  One of his sons left the Amish lifestyle.  Our driver told us that about 20% of all Amish children leave the Amish lifestyle.  We asked our driver if his son leaving the Amish lifestyle bothered him.  He told us yes it did at first, but his son lives just down the road and he and his family come over frequently.

These are tubes the large round hay bales are pushed into and totally sealed.  We were told this kept the hay fresh for 6-9 months which preserves the moisture content without rotting.

We saw lots of pulley system clothes lines.  The carriage near the white building is their daily personal carriage.  The horses that pull these carriages are usually thoroughbred trotters.  They move along quickly.

This is another touring carriage.  Our driver told us their privately owned carriages are not this large. 

This tree is where the touring carriages are parked. The leaves look sort of like a maple, but the flowers are very different.  See the close-up picture below.

Next we drove around the county side just looking at the different shops and farms.  We saw private carriages all around.

Someone else is driving this cart.  We were not sure why this girl was hanging out the side.  We were told that all the carriages in Lancaster county are gray in color.

This carriage had a little room behind the cab to carry more stuff.

You can see a girl driving and a couple of others inside.  In this area of PA the roads have wide shoulders for the carriages to go without obstructing the automobiles. 

The horse turned its head just as Tic took the picture.  However you can see this "carriage" is like a sports model in that there is only a seat and front area for your feet.
As we were driving around we stopped at one farm that was selling chicken pot pies and bought an 8" pie.  We had it for dinner and it was delicious.  Tomorrow will be another adventure!