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This posting is for yesterday...

Sorry to our regular readers, who catch up with our antics over morning coffee - the hotel that we stayed at last night had a really bad internet connection and we couldn't blog - but we were able to get more or less up to date with our electronic journal, from which we have simply cut and paste!!!

***Miles travelled today: 192

***Total Miles: 2778

***States travelled through: Pennsylvania, a brief part of West Virginia (on the interstate) and Ohio...

So today we got on the road relatively early again, and had already decided that we would not be travelling far as we wanted to go via Holmes County and drive through some of the Amish towns in Ohio... this is the largest Amish community in the world... Anyway, we checked into the hotel in a little town called New Philadelphia, before lunch... picked up maps and a load of leaflets, and off we went!!! We found an Amish Family style dining restaurant where we stopped for lunch, in a town called Walnut Creek!!! Within moments of sitting down, the heavens opened and there was a torrential downpour... there are some serious storms making their way across the States at the moment!!! Luckily by the time we had finished – the storms had dissipated... and the sun was trying to come out!!! We headed out in search of photographic opportunities and we weren’t disappointed. We travelled through towns called Sugar Creek, Berlin and Charm - not realising that this was also the area to the biggest Swiss community in the States. Compared to yesterday, today’s experiences have been stress-free and mild and it was just what we needed.

We’ve decided to have a few relaxing days as the constant ‘being on the move’ takes its toll and besides which, we haven’t yet written nor posted off those postcards from Niagara Falls! So, tomorrow-we're heading for Port Clinton where Linz has just told me, there are ‘lots of things to do’ – perhaps because this is a scenic town on the edge of Lake Erie-one of the American Great lakes.

This evening whilst sitting in the room, there is a major storm outside and the thunder and lightning are phenomenally stunning and scary-which makes us feel very fortunate to be able to ‘hotel-our-trip’ rather than ‘tent-it’.