Road Trip 2015 Ohio Amish Country

Shirley and I spent several days in Mentor Ohio in order to see the R & R Hall of Fame, check out the Amish (I wanted to eat in an Amish restaurant) and tour some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day early history sites.

This part of Ohio is fairly flat with some rolling low hills. We took a side trip into the area where the Amish religion was more prevalent. We went into a Walmart in one of the communities and found Amish men, women, and children integrated into the community. The area south of Cleveland is home to the largest Amish settlements in the world.

In most of the buggys we saw, there was only one man (the driver). We did see a buggy with a family and thought it interesting that the children were sitting on the floor almost hidden by the dash.

All of the buggys were of the same style.

This is a typical Amish home. It was located in a neighborhood with other similar houses (not all houses were the same just like any other neighborhood. We could tell this was an Amish (maybe Mennonite) because in the next photo which is of the same home with the sheds across the driveway is a buggy. Other homes in this area had cars in the driveways or garages.

You can just barely see the buggy in the first two openings of the shed. We also saw an Amish couple washing their buggy in their driveway but Shirley decided it wouldn't be polite to pull in and take a picture.

We did eat at an Amish restaurant in Middlefield, Oh. We had the buffet dinner. Authentic Amish (German) food was great! No fufu stuff!

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