[senior citizen]

For those snowbirds in Pennsylvania now, we'd appreciate suggestions for a road trip through Lancaster County this upcoming autumn period and again next May with the grandchildren............we'd be driving, coming down from Binghamton New York area (not through New Jersey) and would probably end up on what they call the "Old Philadelphia Pike" someplace out of Philadelphia.......really want to avoid the city.

We'd have a week or more so we'd like to leisurely see the Amish Countryside.

Online searches show that it's really GROWN UP since the early 1960's when we were last there. I was surprised at how many covered bridges there were in Lancaster Co alone..........appears to be 25 of them....and no doubt more in surrounding areas.....we don't want to stay on a FARM B&B but neither do we want to stay in a high rise hotel........any suggestions?

Some of the first towns would be Bird in a Hand, Intercourse, Stroudsberg, etc. but there are dozens of other interesting villages such as Mount Joy, etc.......and many others..........all the way to Hershey.

It all looks like one big tourist trap now........but we'd like to get "off the beaten track" and see the farmlands..........that's what we like coming from Vermont ourselves. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. I sent for the Pennsylvania Travel and Tourism folder and maps but not sure how long they will take to arrive.

We remember taking our parents to the real old fashioned Amish cooking type restaurants which were served family style........so any names stand out in particular?