Manheim, PA

After a relaxing day in Easton, PA, we are continuing our journey south. We passed some nice tourist towns along Delaware River in New Jersey and entered Pennsylvania. For the last two days, we’ve been riding mostly through farmland, in sunny weather and not much traffic to slow us. We need to keep up the pace also because the campgrounds are very scarce around here. Tomorrow, for example, there will be no campgrounds for us to stay at at all, so we will have to improvise. We’ll try to sneak our tent in on some farm or camp on a church lawn, which should be very easy to find.

All morning today we’ve been going through Amish villages, which is a novelty to me. We saw men working the horse-drawn ploughs, women in long, funny dresses and children, curiously staring at us passing by. It looked like a scene from John Steinbeck’s book I am reading right now. We couldn’t find any coffee shops or even gas stations to take a break from the road for the longest time. The only institutions around seem to be churches and gun clubs, which are plenty indeed. It’s a very interesting lifestyle these people are living here. I kind of wish I understood a little more about it.

From here, we have two and a half days of riding left. By Wednesday afternoon, we will reach Washington DC, where our journey will end. If the weather and the road stays as it is, the last of our miles will surely be enjoyable.