Amish Country PA - Leg 1

06/24/2014 Tuesday  We departed at 8:15AM for the first leg of our trip to the Amish Country of Pennsylvania. We traveled up US17 for most of the way to our first stop at Kiptopeke State Park in Cape Charles VA. It is just a few hundred yards off the coast of the Chesapeake Bay. Most of US17 was in really good shape - only about 15 miles was a little rough. It was our first time ever to ride the 15+ mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The fare one way was $31 for the MH and car. We checked in and unhooked the toad to ride around the CG to select our site. We chose site 53. The CG has 94 sites on three streets in the section that has full hookups. We only paid for water and electricity since we are only going to be here 2 nights - plus they have 3-4 dump stations on the way out. One of the CG streets was not paved and had rough spots. Only a few of the sites on the first street would not be acceptable for a MH. After setting up and relaxing for awhile and eating supper we walked 2.2 miles on some of the many walking/bicycle trails.

Site 53

The CG Host is parked in the site next to us. He told us about the cross country trip he took on his bicycle from Portland Oregon to Annapolis Maryland to celebrate his 2 years of being cancer free and 65 years old. He did the trip in 53 days. I like to ride my bicycle but this guy is one serious rider. Even before he told us about his trip I though he was probably a serious rider when I saw a light on the back of his helmet.


06/25/2014 Wednesday We got up early to walk before it got hot but it was still very humid. After breakfast we drove up the highway to visit the little town of Cape Charles. It sits right on the bank of the bay with several old home overlooking the bay. We stopped to check out an old style hardware store. Not your typical Ace Hardware or Lowes. It was more like stores of 30-40 years ago with somewhat jumble isles but that have about anything you need or what. They were still using a typewriter to prepare their account cards and a cash register that was probably 30 years old. We also drove over to the marina where we saw two large private yachts. On the way back to the CG we stopped at a local restaurant with the idea of getting some local seafood for lunch but did not stay to eat. When we walked in one of the employees was standing on a ladder in the dining room using a vacuum cleaner to vacuum the dust/soot around the air conditioner return and this was at noon when they were probably the busiest. The place did not look very clean and the prices were rather steep we though considering the atmosphere. We returned to the CG and did some reading and relaxed. After supper we walked down to the gift shop/camp store and the fishing pier and boat dock. This walk made 3.2 miles for the day,

06/26/14 Thursday We got up early again and walked another of the trails and then back down to the boat dock for a total of 1.45 miles before breakfast. We packed up went to the dump station and departed app 10AM for Trap Pond State Park in Delaware. It was a nice easy drive of 120 miles. So far on this trip we have seen lots of really nice farm land with soy beans,