http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Pennsylvania , Lancaster en-us Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:17:43 BST Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:17:43 BST Yesterday I went for a motorcycle ride on some of the local roads. This is probably one of the nicest areas I have seen since I left home. The scenery is green and lush and the terrain is rolling hills. But from what I hear the local people are not very nice. I drove through a lot of farm land and even saw a few Amish horse and buggies. I had never seen one in action so that was cool. The http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-313235.html Dear AllI have logged nearly 600 miles of road time and boy does it feel nice to settle into my hotel tonight Lancaster Arts Hotel a national landmark courtesy of Franklin and Marshall. I regret no pictures will accompany my postings until I return home. Until then I will try to paint a word picture for you in the form of notes I create for myself as well.For a visual aid to my travels cli http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-296745.html Vi sidder i det fantastisk smukke Pennsylvania og oplever det man kan kalde posttraumatiskafstressning. Sommerregn trommer p taget af vores mobile hotelvrelse og vi har netop kontateret at der er trlst netvrk herude midt i skoven. Julie jublede og kastede sig over Facebook medens Sigbjrns fingre kribler for at fastholde de seneste dages hndelser.Vi har nu vret afsted i en uge og det f http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-275457.html Hey everyoneHow has your day gone todayMine was kinda quiet as I enjoy the surroundings of our motel room. Well not quite the folks took me with them when they went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.Then they met Sharon's friend Carrie Taylor at Wycliffe northeast regional offices. After Carrie gave them a tour they were off to a place called Intercourse Sorry but that is what the place is ca http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-260145.html Howdy y'allWell we had quite a day of driving today We left Waxhaw NC at 830 am and arrived here in Lancaster PA at 730 pm with a one hour stop in Hillsville Virginia. Now follow this closely we went from North Carolina through South Carolina back into North Carolina then into Virginia then into West Virginia then into Maryland and finally into Pennsylvania We were going through sta http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-259819.html I bet the heading of this blog entry got your attention This will be explained a little bit later on.....Fi and I recently visited Washington DC for 'Navy Week'. Each year the embassy pays for members posted to the US to visit the embassy to be informed of changes happening in the Defence Force and to receive those mandatory riveting briefs like 'Equity and Diversity' and 'Occupational Health and http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-215889.html On Saturday we went to the Bronx zoo it was cool we saw some crazy animals. I have never seen a giraffe before so i liked watching them haha the craziest though was watching the gorillas.We are so similar it messes with you. I got some good pics of them we also saw rhinos and a red panda bear. tigers lionselephantsdear x1000haha so many animals...... really cool but above the animals th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-209779.html I now have a little over a week left until I leave for Perugia. It hasn't hit me yet but it is starting to. People keep asking me when I'm leaving and it feels so weird to say next week. I've been overly busy with Football camp and have put in nearly 70 hours over the last week and 2 or 3 days. It is the most tiring 2 weeks of the school year for me and I'm not one of the football players run http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-194892.html Hello AgainThere are only 6 more days until I leave for Nantes. I am flying out on Tuesday the 21 at around 8 at night. I am still packing and trying to figure out what I even want to take I hope that I can get enough in my suitcase for the whole 4 months but we will see. Well I just wanted to give a quick update. I'll write again in France http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-192788.html A Day Of Great anticipation. I waited over a year for this trip. Sheila my Step Mom invited me to go no kidding an honor. we moved into our home over a yr ago and I was in need of some yard beautifiers. still alittle premature I wanted to go so bad. I got out my gardening books and tried to plan for the shade wich we get mostly due to the large canopy of trees we have around our home great for k http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-166341.html Lancaster PA was our next destination. We stayed for two weeks and explored the farms villages and bounty that Lancaster has to offer. This area sometimes called Pennsylvania Dutch country is home to many Old Order Amish Mennonite and various related sects. Many of them still practice the old ways farming with muledrawn plows and driving horsedrawn buggies. Their lifestyle is plain b http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-164677.html In order to reserve my spot here on travelblog I need to make any entry. I guess I'll just share howwhen I'm getting from PA to New Zealand...Sunday 211...fly out of Philadelphia to San Diego meet up with Uncle Bob and Aunt JuneTuesday 213...drive with Bob and June from San Diego to Los Angeles group flight with Arcadia from LA to AucklandThursday 215 NZ time...arrive early morning and http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-125749.html After a few weeks at home going stir crazy to get on the road again the South East Route began on November 2 2006 with a visit to Emma Watts in Lancaster PA. Arriving in the evening I became reacquainted with her parents and acquainted with her beautiful home and two contrasting dogs. Going out to a local pub in Lancaster we ordered an appletini and a tall dark and handsometini and used t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-103365.html Hershey PA was more than chocolate. Rolling farmlands with prestine farms owned by the Amish. We toured the Cornwall Iron Furnace which was active from 17421972 when a hurricane flooded the iron mine.We visited the Ephrata Cloister which was started by German Conrad Beissel in 1691. He was the original Kool Aid Prophet settling in a Mennonite area of Hershey he inspired sisters and brothers http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-85417.html I recently spent time within the Amish community and found their way of life very refreshing. They are an extremely hardworking people who teach their children the values and morals which I beleive are slowing being lost within other areas of the eastern part of the United States. Until our class last week I believed that the Amish people were a rarity in the United States but I am coming to th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-77018.html I wanted to get one entry in before I left to make sure it would work. I am about to leave for Newark in an hour and I'll be in Dublin by 9 am thier time tomorrow. I hope everyone has a great month and Ill update this as much as I can. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-59600.html The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. William ShenstoneMy mind feels heavy. It feels like I am carrying all of my aspirations of an entire year on my brain. I suppose most of my aspirations arenrsquot really too important in terms of what most people would coin as success. Irsquod rather keep my plans to myself but find th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Lancaster/blog-6577.html