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Detailed Itinerary
Aug
8 - Sun: Laura Ingalls / Sikeston
Board
our spacious, video and restroom equipped motorcoach
bright and early for your venture to the Quilt Gardens
and Amish Country.
Visit Laura
Ingalls Wilder home in
Mansfield.
Continue eastwards with a visit to a historic
grist mill.
Overnight Sikeston. (Light Dinner
at the hotel included)
Aug
9 - Mon: Paducah, Indianapolis
After
breakfast, we depart to Paducah to visit the National
Quilt Museum.
See more than 100 award-winning quilts on exhibit from
antique to contemporary and peruse their extensive
gift shop with more than 1000 quilt related book
titles as well as handcrafted gifts.
Overnight Indianapolis. (B, Light Dinner
at the hotel included)
Aug
10 - Tue: Quilt Gardens / Amish Country
Following
breakfast, we travel to the heart of Indiana Amish
Country.
Our step
on guide will
provide insight on the Amish way of life with many
interesting shopping and tasting stops along the way.
Our stop will also include viewing
of the many quilt gardens maintained
by local businesses and residents.
Each year, applicants are chosen by their entry
designs.
The Quilt Gardens are an innovative way of
paying tribute to America’s rich past.
Visit Amish
museum and films.
After a hearty thresher’s
dinner,
enjoy a Broadway
type show in
a hand hewn red Round Barn.
Overnight Goshen.
(B, D)
Aug
11 - Wed: Quilt Gardens, Lincoln Presidential
After
breakfast, visit an apple cider mill.
We will continue our stops at quilt gardens.
Lunch
included.
Travel to Springfield for overnight. (B L)
Aug
12 - Thu: Return Home
Following
breakfast, tour Lincoln Presidential Library.
We will travel home with rest stops along the
way arriving home early evening.
(B)
QUILT GARDENS EVENT
This
one-of-a-kind event features 16 large-scale
quilt-patterned gardens and 16 oversized quilt murals.
One
garden is using crops to design their mural.
It’s
the first quilt garden on the tour patterned with
beans, rye, wheat, sunflowers, corn, red geraniums and
grass. Middlebury’s town tree is the sugar maple.
To honor the town’s upcoming 100 year
anniversary, the official quilt garden will be planted
in an intricate, colorful “Maple Leaf” pattern.
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