Lancaster County, PA (Road Trip Day 1)

by Lauren

The time is finally here - we're on our road trip! We left on Wednesday morning and headed for our first stop in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We had hoped to interview an Amish person, but discovered that being filmed is against their beliefs, so instead we interviewed the owner of Good 'n Plenty, a fantastic restaurant in Lancaster.

First, though, we headed over to Intercourse, PA (what a name, right?) where we took in some of the local culture. The land out there was so different from what we're used to at home. There were farms everywhere and Amish people riding in horse-drawn buggies.

We stopped at one little village where we got our picture taken with a couple of big horses:

This one even smiled for the camera:

After roaming around for a little bit, we went to Good 'n Plenty, which is owned by Sarah's friend Jenn's grandparents. Good 'n Plenty is such a fantastic restaurant and Jenn's grandparents are so sweet. Right when we arrived, Jenn's grandmother served us a huge meal of mashed potatoes, fried chicken, pork & sauerkraut, homemade vanilla ice cream, and shoo fly pie:

After filling ourselves with as much food as we could handle, we interviewed Jenn's grandfather about his restaurant. He had lots of great advice for young people, but I don't want to spoil the interview so I won't say anything more.

We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around Lancaster County, where we saw lots of adorable farm animals and beautiful landscapes:

As we were driving around trying to figure out what to do next, we stumbled upon an abandoned corn maze with little tricycles and of course we had to get out to play. I love this picture of Sarah rounding a corner on her tricycle in front of a field that says "FIELD":

Some other random shots I really liked:

Finally, we put the corn fields of Lancaster behind us and headed on towards Ohio:

If you want to see all of my photos from Day 1, check out my slideshow here:


Sarah and Nicole took a lot of fantastic pictures too that they'll hopefully be uploading soon!

Anyway, right now we're in Odessa, Missouri and we have lots more to blog about but it's getting late, so that will have to wait for tomorrow. Keep checking back for more!