JoJo doing his school work outside.  We have been hanging out in the heart of Amish country this week.  I am so intrigued by their simplicity, the way they walk in stride with nature and embrace it instead of fight it.  I have a deep desire to photograph the beauty of the simplicity here but also understand their preference to not be photographed.  Oh what an amazing story it’d be to tell through photos.  So I haven’t picked my camera up much this week.  We love it here.  The rolling hills, abundant farmland, healthy fresh food and handmade products everywhere.  Today we took the kids to a knife store, ran a bunch of errands, explored a few Amish shops and spent a really long time looking for beer!  Tomorrow we move to a different campground a bit north.

ps – I really loved all the grass in this site after weeks of mud, dirt, sticker burs, sand and sharp gravel.

We were supposed to be in West Virginia this week seeing the newest national park.  Instead we bolted up to Pennsylvania though an exhausting amount of DC traffic.  We are scheduled to tour an RV that’s already sold later today.  Sounds dumb right?!  RVs are super hard to come by in this market and the layout we are looking for is super scarce right now.  Available ones are either already sold when I call around or on the other side of the country.  If we love it we will likely just order directly from the manufacturer….but I 100% need to stand in the space and make sure it feels like home first!  Fingers crossed!

ps…we love Pennsylvania.  The people are so wonderful and crossing through northern Maryland in to PA, it feels like New England.  Spring time and the rolling green hills, farms everywhere (we are staying at one we love), it is one of my favorite places.  Happy to be jumping around this beautiful state for the rest of May.

This is how I will remember our time here.  We spent two weeks in Williamsburg, one before and one after our time in the Outer Banks.  Jonah made so many friends here and he was so busy playing all day, every day.