Tuesday 20th: Leaving Corning (or at least trying to, without getting onto the expressway) we ended up travelling a roundabout route getting a mini-tour of the town. Eventually after around 15 miles of back roads, we linked up with the BDR route. We were on country roads both sealed & gravel through forests and farmland. This area appeared from the architecture (especially Farmhouses & barns) to have a Dutch influence look about it. Looking it up later I found, there has been a Dutch influence here since the 1700s and Pennsylvanian Dutch is still taught as a first language in some communities. The Pennsylvania Dutch (also called Pennsylvania Germans or Pennsylvania Deutsch) are descendants of early German immigrants to Pennsylvania who arrived in droves, mostly before 1800, to escape religious persecution in Europe. Travelling through these
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