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03.06.08
Indiana
A few hours drive and we were in
Indiana’s Amish country.
Quite
a few hours later, we had managed to
get extremely lost whilst looking for a camping
ground. We drove around in circles
and luckily
managed to get back to where we had originally
started. A Wal-Marts car park.
Thank goodness
‘camping’ in these car parks
is allowed, I experienced my first supermarket
‘sleep-over’. It’s
really quite strange sitting
eating your breakfast and watching people
trundling out with their shopping.
Amish
country - Horse drawn buggies are
a normal sight here. They have their own lane
on the roads and to see one dwarfed
beside
a huge freight truck as they wait at a red light
together is rather strange. I am amazed at how
bombproof
these horses are. Nothing seems
to faze them.
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| Working the field with real horse power |
The supermarkets have purpose built shelters
where horses are hitched whilst the family
is
shopping. For staff doing a trolley (cart) pickup
here, it includes doing a manure pickup
as well!!
The surprise sight of the day was witnessing
the aftermath of a minor accident. I would
have
thought the accident itself would have
been enough of a shock for the poor man
who’s car was hit, without seeing
the driver
of the other vehicle get out with a gun
strapped to his hip!
The most unbelievable sight was at the
beginning
of this trip. We walked past a car
parked in a Wal-Marts car park with bullet
holes in the boot. They had
obviously been
shot from the inside so I hope whoever had
made them was no longer in there!
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