Comment on My top five Amish settlements by Erik/Amish America.
Tom, Al, agree with both of you on Daviess County. Glad to hear things haven’t changed since I was there. And a few of those gravel roads are more like dirt. One time I actually had to get an Amish farmer to yank my car out of the ditch with his tractor. Turns out you shouldn’t try to drive on fresh mud right after a rainstorm. Who would have thought?
Glad to see this post is still getting some responses. It was a lot of fun to do…now that it is going on four years later, maybe I need to come up with an expanded list, perhaps a top 10?
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