Welcome to the home page for  My Amish Indiana! For information on our private tours, click here. For social media, see Facebook or Instagram. For information on my book in 3 color formats, click here. For information on the black & white paperback, click here ..read more

My husband loves pie!  And he's one of those annoying people (mostly men) who can eat just about whatever he wants without worrying about calories.  (We hate him.) Used to be he liked just about any pie, but since we moved to Amish Country, he's gotten quite spoiled.  When he can manage it, he loves to get his hands on some pie made by our friend Ruth—but the rest of the time, he haunts the local bakeries, and he's got some definite opinions.   I finally asked him to put his mouth where his money is, and write a few guest opinions for me!...  So this is the first ..read more

Things have been a little slow as of late, so the husband and I decided to do something I’ve had on my back burner for years:  Drive the Elkhart County Visitor Center’s “Heritage Trail.”  I had a copy of the map and 2-CD set, so why not give it a spin? We drove from our new home in Middlebury to the Elkhart County Visitor Center (ECVC) near the tollway, and started from the beginning, driving clockwise through Elkhart, Bristol, Middlebury, Shipshewana, Goshen, Nappanee, Wakarusa, and back to Elkhart.  Three hours and 95 miles later, we were back around to the beginning. One ..read more

Happy New Year!  Here are a dozen of my favorite photos from the last year, taken and posted on my Amish Indiana facebook page during 2019.   Happy New Year from My Amish Indiana ..read more

Recently my husband Gary drove half a dozen Amish young people to a wedding in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  This is an unusual occurrence; not much intermarriage happens between the Amish here in northeastern Indiana and the Amish in Lancaster County. He had a few hours to wander around, and he found himself at the Weavertown Coach Shop, where Amish buggies have been made for almost fifty years.  Notice, you can take your horse through the “horse wash”!  (Gary looked around to try and get some photos, but the horse wash was closed.) Gary took the photo below of the bug ..read more

Wandering around Amish Indiana can be confusing...  There are women dressed ‘plain,’ but with clearly not-Amish head coverings (the local Amish all wear the same large, white, square head covering, shown below); there are women dressed in Amish-style dresses but in print fabrics.  There are the Mennonite women, who generally dress in t-shirts, long denim skirts, and tennis shoes and wear a “doily” on their heads...  How do these groups fit into the overall scheme of things? I’m going to oversimplify, because most of my readers don’t want a theological treatise!—just a few h ..read more

Took my first ride in a cruiser the other day - an open buggy - kind of a new thing around here in the last ten years...  It is the best way in the world to see the countryside!  Drove down to Topeka-town with my best friend Ruth, had pizza, and drove back. I recently wrote about cruisers here ..read more

I’ve been meaning to write about an event I attended at Shipshewana’s Mayfest last month, but I lost my notes!  So here’s the post, but it’ll be shorter than I planned... After the annual Shipshe Mayfest parade on Saturday morning, an event is held on Morton Street called “The Shipshewana 500.”  This involves teams of four people—two inside a buggy and two pulling it.  They pull the buggy 250 feet down the street, around a traffic cone, switch places (pullers and riders), and race back down across the starting/finish line.  All teams use the same buggy, to keep a level pl ..read more

I saw this "porch" on the edge of an Amish garden patch the other day... It's actually just the plain metal side of a barn, but a false porch was created! The false door says, "He who plants a garden works hand in hand with God ..read more

 A lot has changed for Gary and me lately... For the last ten years, we've had a bookselling business on Amazon which we are now in the process of closing.  Gary also did quite a bit of Amish taxi work the first five years we lived here in Indiana, but he's retired from that in year six. Our focus lately has been on the tour guide business (both private tours and step-on bus tour services).  It has been a lot of fun, and we're expanding that business next year. Between marketing the tour business and doing social media (see links below), I've got quite enough irons in the f ..read more