Arriving at Lancaster Caunty

Hi all,

I bet you wonder how did we make our way to the Amish country. Well, there are some interesting bits on our way to Lancaster Caunty.

The story starts with the 3 of us comming from different places, so we were supposed to meet up at JFK International Airport, NY, on July the 1st. Antonio arrived safely on June the 29th and planned a nice 2 days around the city in the meantime. Although Paloma and Estefania were flying from Miami International Airport to JFK on July the 1st. All of a sudden our plans were changed by a flight cancellation, it seems like it was a weather condition in NYC, so the air space was closed and no planes could make its way there.

After so many hours at MIA airport Paloma and Estefania managed to get a new flight arriving at JFK the day after by noon. Now, the 3 of us rent a car our Delorian, for the time travel project. We wanted to get a Hyundai or Kia but no options, so we end up getting a 4x4 Jeep instead, pretty american style.

For all this time we spent on our way, we pretty much run out of battery, so mobile GPS wasn't an option by the time we arrived in Lancaster, 7 pm with no directions rather than: " We are looking for the Amish, could you please help us find the way?" At this point we stoped by a gas station with a very nice and interesting employee. His speaking was hard to understand with an Indian accent, but he really made the effort to help us: "At the light turn left till you see Rutary, take Rutary west..." We could not understand what Rutary meant untill we saw the signal I am sharing with you.


Even so, we managed to hit 30 RD and down to the countryside. Our next stop was at a small village, almost everything closed and no lights. We came across this 2 Amish girls, so we decided to ask them for some help in finding a place to stay. It was very shoocking seeing them walk to their car, but ever more when they reply: "Do you have internet? You can Google it."

Yes, that was a bit confusing for us, but we didn't gave up, so we kept driving and we arrived at the Amishview Hotel with a vacancy signal on it, checked in, dropp our staff and went to find a place to have dinner somewhere around. Funny enough we found out people at this area normally have dinner from 3-6pm and not many places to choose from. We got lost a couple of times running around a beautiful landscape with no lights on it, so we decided to go bed and start on better shape in the morning.

At the end we made it safely, but lots of fun on the way as you can imagine!
Stay tunned for what is to come :)
Antonio, Paloma and Estef