Cheese Road Trip Day 3

Friday we started off and went to look at the cheese vat.  We gleamed some really good nuggets of information from him, which I won't bore you with.  However, we then headed to Bellefontaine, OH to another cheesemaking shop.  We bought a little bit of cheese, learned a little more, and headed up state to more Amish country.

This is a fantastic barn that we saw driving through the Ohio country side.

We stopped in some little town that had this fantastic courthouse, and the first concrete street in America.

 We traveled on up to Millerburg, Ohio, which is primarily Amish country.  We went to a huge cheese manufacturing facility.  They had everything from jerky to cheese, to fudge and ice cream.  The coolest this about this facility is that they make approximately 6600 pounds of cheese-six days a week, and all of it comes from Amish farmers that still hand milk their cows.

When Shorty and I heard the tour guide tell us that all the milk was from hand milked cows, we looked at each other and thought bullshit.  But then when we went to leave we saw the milk truck bringing in the milk.  In the hand milk jugs.  Each one of these jugs holds 10 to 15 gallons of milk-depending on the size which we couldn't see.  It takes 1.25 gallons of milk to make one pound of most cheese.  You do the math on how many of these jugs had to be filled by hand milking in order to make all of their cheese........I think we'll stick to electricity.

 We then stopped at a little Amish run market there in Millersburg.  They had a huge Clydesdale that you could ride, but our favorite sight was the goats on the roof.

 Beautiful sight in Amish country.  The horses seemed like they had to stand forever for their owners to come back.  Although it was really cool on this day in Ohio, I was glad we got to get in an air conditioned car and head on down the road.

We hit the road headed to New York state via Pennsylvania.  This is the only picture I got in Pennsylvania before it got dark.  I snapped it at a rest stop.  This is a hand carved monument to the Native Americans in the area.