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Lancaster County, PA
A Travel Blog by jeff1fla
A nice weekend trip to the Pennsylvania Dutch country in Lancaster County, PA. I was treated to a fun weekend with my neice and nephew for my birthday and we stayed in the Red Caboose Motel. When I was a kid we would travel here almost every summer and not ...
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Day 3... exploring the Dutch Country
A Travel Blog entry by travelredgang from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Day 3........exploring the Pennsylvania Dutch Country We started out at the Kitchen Kettle Village in Intercourse, PA We saw beautiful quilts and pottery. We bought some prezel mix and Amish herbal tea that tastes wonderful. Then we drove to Bird ...
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Day 2....drove to Gordonsville, PA
A Travel Blog entry by travelredgang from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Day 2 left Natural Bridge Station, VA starting odometer 49,921 arriving odometer 50,182 We drove 261 miles today arriving in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. We will stay here two ...
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Pennsylvania Dutch...
A Travel Blog entry by crossroadtrip from Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
... and that state has continued. We took some time to drive out of the way and go through Pennsylvania Dutch Country, which is Lancaster County, PA. It was not what we expected, but good. The problem was it is very commercialized, but it ...
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Visiting the Amish area around Lancaster
A Travel Blog entry by dugnjulie from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
... Amish of Lancaster County are America's oldest Amish settlement, where thousands still live a centuries-old "Plain" lifestyle. Arriving in PA Dutch Country allows you to step back in time to enjoy a slower, more peaceful pace – one where the ...
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Thoughts on Europe
A Travel Blog entry by duckdog from Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
... in the middle of a field, and the giant windmills were everywhere you looked. I’m kind of inspired to take a trip to a local PA-Dutch market after seeing the Holland countryside. It was a relaxing scene, that is, the entire country- until you got to ...
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Where the smells of nature are never too far
A Travel Blog entry by g7s22 from Strasburg, Pennsylvania, United States
... the cycle of nature, but I don't think it helped erase her initial horror. Strasburg is a quaint town in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The Strasburg Railroad is an old steam train, that was beautifully refurbished. We bought combination tickets ...
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A forum and a park
A Travel Blog entry by burtonll from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
... called "Italian Renaissance" and it has 651 rooms and a 272-foot dome, imitating St Peter's in Rome. Harrisburg is in "Pennsylvania Dutch" country. There are many farms and big red barns around the town. Hershey -- where all that candy is made -- is a ...
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Platte-i-tudes
A Travel Blog entry by thsmith1 from Kearney, Nebraska, United States
... the theme, I'm a water nut). I read James Michener's "Centennial" years back about the westward migration from Pennsylvania Dutch Country to Colorado, roughly the trek I'm on now and was fascinated with the discussion of the Platte and how it ...
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Deciding on a vacation
A Travel Blog entry by laorfamily from Edison, New Jersey, United States
... for pre-school starting in ... you guessed it .... September! In the middle of July we found ourselves trying to find rooms in Dutch Country, PA to no avail, the whole county is booked. Good, who wants to go there anyway when every family from the ...
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Chillin' in Charlottesville
A Travel Blog entry by kimandjeff from Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Hi there! The day started in Lancaster, PA in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. We headed out from there and quickly hit the Maryland state line. We drove through Cacoctin Mountain Park where Camp David is located. However, it was raining when ...
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Fall Weekend in Vermont
A Travel Blog entry by globetrekker from Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States
... , I crossed the Connecticut River, which formed the fluvial border between New Hampshire and Vermont, and found myself driving on a shaded country road contouring along a meandering river. I was now in Vermont, and deep in the woods which so many American ...
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Athens Olympics
A Travel Blog entry by kantors_abroad from Athens, Greece
... that I was almost involved in a '6 bike pile-up on the way to work!' *** Man our country is messed up. I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a Dutch friend about why we don't have electronic voting in the US like they do in the Netherlands. I ...
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Arrive in chaos-2
A Travel Blog entry by lialai from Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
... was our pass for the mass transportation such as “trein,” “tram,” metro and bus throughout the whole country. The OV-chipkaart was so convenient that the old ticket had been taken place in most of the cities in the Netherlands. ...
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Queens Day, Paris w/ Julie's parents (guest entry)
A Travel Blog entry by kantors_abroad from Paris, France
... ' with Parliament, Mabel denied having a relationship with the county's largest known drug dealer. She lied. Remember, this is a country that is very lenient towards drugs and sex. But lying? Because she lied, Parliament refused to approve the wedding ...
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Tuscany and Umbria - Part I
A Travel Blog entry by kantors_abroad from Tuscany and Umbria, Italy
... we were only 50 KMs or so from Florence that we realized that we were going the wrong way. Basically, while driving through the country roads, we had somehow worked our way north of Siena so when we found the highway, we thought we were still south of ...
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Madison KOA to Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
A Travel Blog entry by jgsreh from Estes Park, Colorado, United States
... you from?" "A little town called New Kensington" was their reply. What do you suppose the odds are of traveling across the country, finding a camp host job in the middle of nowhere, and your co-hosts live about five miles from where we lived. ...
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When shit goes pear-shaped
A Travel Blog entry by andreoz from Sapa, Vietnam
... Being vegetarian is actually a good way of life and I really appreciate it, but I reminded them that we were in Vietnam, a country where people used to eat almost everything bar human flesh. To make matters worse, the ice hockey final of the winter ...
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the lost post - should be between #4 and #5
A Travel Blog entry by sjourdai from Amsterdam, Netherlands
... cannibus/coffee houses and Franz estalled the virtues of Holland's sociliast society - low crime, diminishing drug use, surveyed as 'the happiest country on the planet'. OH! I wanted to ask him about the taxes SO BAD. I held off. One ...
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Howard Johnson Lancaster
2100 US Hwy 30 East, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
... space for lots of suitcases. I wish this hotel had wireless internet access-- it is really hard to come by in Lancaster, PA hotel. Even just a wireless device in the lobby would really be of great value. It has a pool and breakfast, although breakfast is ...
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