Several posts running on this subject, but for some reason I can't "reply". (could not "post" yesterday, so don't know if it is
me or the forum). I started visiting SE Pa. and Harrisburg area for the car shows in 1970, and then found York Train Meet
in 1985, so have found a few things of interest in the area. The Adamstown antique markets I have in times past walked
through and even set up in, but not lately. (I was unfamiliar with the "Green Dragon") I have long visited the antique malls west on 30 to Gettysburg and beyond, but lately, they have suffered the dwindling, and even closing, that has affected the York train open shows. Since there is always interest in finding good food, on a couple of the last trips we found the "Shady Maple Smorgasbord", a huge, and not inexpensive pig-out sorta out in the boonies north of Lancaster near the intersection
of 23 and 897. We also found that Lancaster has a Golden Corral, which is a daily pig-out, including breakfast on weekends,
on the "main drag" that is the U.S. 30 bypass around Lancaster. There are a number of tourist-trap Amish-themed restaurants around Lancaster, but these two are worth your money. This year, for the spring, I got in practice for walking the halls by hiking the acres at the Longwood Gardens. That was her trip, but she got blisters, so did not walk the York halls. Be prepared for an excursion, as that is not a walk around the block, and go in the spring, when flowers are blooming. Our previous trip was during fall York, and not much was in bloom. Longwood is not far east of Lancaster. The Lancaster area and SE Pa. has a LOT of covered bridges, and when the open shows have little of interest in the morning, I hunt and photograph those in the afternoons. Pa. has some handouts mapping those, but the area is also full of old water mills, but, for some reason, I have not found map for them. There are a lot of other historical sites in this, an early settled area of the country.
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