Our next stop was at Valley Forge.

Huts that the soldiers lived in, 12 to a house, during that awful winter.		 Statue of General Anthony Wayne, who commanded the Philadelphia troops at Valley Forge.

Covered Bridge along the tour route
General Washington's headquarters.
Washington Memorial Chapel, which is still an active Episcopal parish.

We stayed at a B&B in Ephrata, in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. This is a HUGE farmer's market there. The produce was enormous, and the salespeople often Amish.

After seeing all the horse drawn buggies and the bicycle like scooters the Amish used, we just had to take a ride ourselves.

Our driver was married to an Amish man, and as we drove by fields and farms as she explained about living with Amish inlaws and the Amish beliefs.

We toured an Amish farm, and saw the way they dressed and the implements they used and the way their houses were furnished.


This is a view of the countryside, all neat white farms and tended fields.
The Ephrata Cloister, the site of a sect that emigrated from Germany and headed by a charismatic man who believed in celibacy, among other things. After his death his main deciple carried on the sect, which reached about 300 people. When that man died, the cloistered people gradually drifted away.

As near as we were, of course we visited Hershey! Everything in town has the Hershey name on it in some way. Chocolate World was fun--we saw how chocolate was made, how kisses were dropped (center picture) and there was, naturally, a huge shop where one could spend lots of money on lots of candy and related stuff. A good place to tour when it was raining outside.
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