{"id":787,"date":"2012-10-02T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2012-10-03T06:42:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:42:02","slug":"amish-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/amish-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Amish furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love Amish furniture.\u00a0 Part of it is that we love furniture made from solid wood.\u00a0 Another part is that we appreciated craftsmanship.\u00a0 The third part is that we like a bargain.<\/p>\n

Which is why I drove for 8 hours on Saturday to pick up two oak swivel gliders to replace the very uncomfortable loveseat that came with the RV. We had seen these chairs while browsing furniture shops last week when we were in Gordonville, PA, but didn’t buy them because we weren’t sure that we could get the loveseat through the very narrow (24.5 inches) door. But with the assistance of Jett’s son, we were able to push that particular camel through that particular eye of the needle (it now resides in his screen-in porch) when we got to Lorton.\u00a0 And at the suggestion of Jett’s brilliant sister Sybil, we realized that it was feasible to make the trek from VA back to PA to fetch the chairs. And cheaper than shipping them.<\/p>\n

So on Saturday, after dropping the grandkids off at the gym (they are both on cheer teams), I filled up the diesel tank and headed north.\u00a0 I made the trip in exactly 3 hours, bought the chairs, had them loaded into the truck by two very helpful Amish gentlemen and headed back “home”. But as I wanted to minimize both the chance of any damage to the chairs and any possibility of anything flying out of the bed of the truck, I set the GPS to “avoid highways.” The result was that the 3 hour trip there became a 5 hour trip back.\u00a0 But I saw some things that I never would have seen on the main roads:<\/p>\n