Bird-in-Hand

Today we arrived in Amish country for a long weekend of bike riding. For November, the weather was perfect- sunny and cool enough to ride without getting hot and sticky. As we were leaving Plainfield at 7:30 this morning, we stopped at a gas station to put air in the bike tires but then couldn't start the car- dead battery. So Carolyn came down and gave us a jump and we drove to Wal Mart to get a battery, which we installed ourselves there in the parking lot to save time. The delay was only about an hour.

We got to New Holland about two, parked and unloaded the bikes. We biked through Amish farmland- white farmhouses and barns, fields, one-room schoolhouses, Mennonite church buildings, waving to people in grey Amish buggies, and Amish kids on roller skates- all with beautiful autumn late afternoon weather. At about 4:30 we loaded the bikes and we drove down to check into our room at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn on route 340.

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