We left Virginia headed for Intercourse, PA. It's one of our favorite places to go and when going north from Chattanooga we always try to stop here for a few days. This time we are staying for 5 nights. The campground is Beacon Hill and as campgrounds go it is far from the best, but the location makes up for it. We are within walking distance of the Country Kettle Village a lttle shopping area and a bunch of quilt shops, although we never walk there. The campground is very tight and you are crammed in there like sardines. It's also not level and there is no cable TV, so we have to use our DISH. We are on the corner of 2 roads that come together in a V shape. On one road (Highway 772) is a main road to Intercourse and the other is Beacon Hill which goes up hill to a very small housing development.Right across the street is Sam's Farm. He is Amish and has a very large family and all of them even the young children help him with the corn crop and tobacco crop and all the other farm chores. The back of our MH faces his farm and we love sitting outside and watching the goings on at the farm.The negative part is there is a ton of cow manure and you can really smell it.
Sam has a lot of corn, This is only one side of the farm. The other side is much, much bigger.
He must have had a great tobacco crop this year as he has added another storage area to dry it
The building on the left is full of tobacco and the one on the right is his regular barn.
And even Sam. the Amish farmer is a Trump supporter. As a matter of fact as we traveled through Virginia and Pennsylvania we saw mostly Trump signs. There were only a few Biden signs. In this area we have only seen 2 Biden's and many Trump signs. That's a good sign.
We love staying in this campground. All day and a good portion of the night we here the clipity clop of the horses and Amish buggies going past our MH. The kitties are a little freaked out due to the smell of the manure. I'm sure they are thinking, "what has a litter box that smells THAT STRONG"?
When we arrived yesterday afternoon a little family of turkeys came walking through the CG making all kinds of noise. Finnegan saw them out the door and was backing up as far as he could go. It's the biggest bird he's ever seen.
They also brought along their chicken friend.
Bentley and Nicholas were amazed at the big birds. They are probably Sam's Thanksgiving dinner.
It's been really cool at night here. about 63 degree and great weather for sleeping with the windows open.
On Friday and Saturday a local Amish family come through the CG selling backed goods, breads, whoopie pies, baked oatmeal, shoofly pie and other items. Usually it's the little kids that come by with a horse and wagon, but this time it was the mom, pulling a wagon full of goodies.She knocked on our door and asked if we wanted anything, so of course we had to buy something for breakfast. Once the other campers saw her they cam running over to buy something too.
We just love this little crowded campground.
Beautiful views.
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