By Traci Suppa ( September 16, 2011 at 4:33 am) · Filed under Bigg-ish, Family travel, Food and beverage, Northeast, Pennsylvania, Road trip, Cow, Ice cream
This big, beautiful bovine isn’t the world’s largest, and she doesn’t even have a name. But we still love her, because she welcomed us to the Turkey Hill Experience in Colombia, PA!
They’re not excited at ALL.
Where we went, and who was coerced into going?
Heading to Pennsylvania Dutch Country was a “last hurrah” getaway before school started. I told the kids, “we’re going to learn how ice cream and potato chips are made, and then we get to eat them.” Not a tough sell.
WHY did you go there, exactly?
The Turkey Hill Experience was the last stop on a three-day tour of the “snack food corridor” connecting York, Lancaster, and Chester counties. We toured potato chip and pretzel factories, visited chocolate makers, and searched for whoopie pies. Both York and Lancaster counties have their own “sweet and salty” tour itineraries listing all the companies offering public tours and/or outlet shopping. We visited nine of them!
Even after gorging ourselves on all that, there was still room for ice cream!
Okay, what was so cool about it?
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By Traci Suppa ( August 31, 2011 at 11:04 am) · Filed under Bigg-ish, Family travel, Food and beverage, Free, Northeast, Pennsylvania, Road trip, Cow
We’re headed to Pennsylvania this weekend for one last getaway before school starts next week. As giddy as I am for the return to school days (cue angelic harp music), I’m sad that our traveling will be curtailed for the next several months. The Boy begins middle school, so it’s even tougher on him now to miss days and make up all the work.
So we’re going out with a bang and a BIG cow (or two)! The focus of our trip is the new Turkey Hill Experience in Lancaster County, an interactive, museum-ish tour that the ice cream company opened this summer. The kids will get to milk some (not real) cows, and we’ll all get to stuff our faces with ice cream.
Credit: TurkeyHillExperience.com
Speaking of face-stuffing, we’re also going to visit several other food factories in the area. York, Lancaster, and Chester counties are full of them; the area is known as the “snack food corridor.” So, Points Plus be (temporarily) damned, here’s the calorific countdown for the next several days:
Revonah Pretzel Bakery, Inc.
Snyder’s of Hanover
UTZ
Herr’s
Martin’s Chips
Wolfgang Candy
Turkey Hill Experience
Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery
Wilbur Chocolate Co.
Hey, on an unrelated but exciting note, have you seen us profiled on SecondAct.com? Please take a look at our Florida trip on the “My Vacation” page! Our photos of Splitsville and the Columbia Restaurant in Tampa, the Mirror Lake Shuffleboard Club in St. Pete, and the Sea Screamer speedboat in Clearwater live on in this article on our road trip over the holidays. We were thrilled to be included, despite the fact that it’s a site for “Boomers.” I guess at 41, I’m encroaching on that phase, huh?
Remember our freezefest on the world's largest speed boat?
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