Barto, Barto, Barto!!

July 8, 2006
Tara, Rory, Eli, Jason, Michael & Kathy



If you ever get the urge to visit Barto, Pennsylvania, I wish you the best of luck. The tiny town an hour and a half outside of Philly isn’t even listed on the official state map, but as fate would have it, our travels from the Jersey shore led us to the tiny hamlet to visit our friends Elizabeth & Jason Pezzuti. If you do visit Barto, you couldn’t find better hosts than them. I know Eli from our shared love of the Counting Crows website and we have spent way too much time on-line on the message boards known until recently as Cloudkookooland. Kathy refers to us as kookoobirds.

MrsReefy & Eli

http://www.countingcrows.com

We drove from Jersey, stopping briefly in Philadelphia at the wonderful Wilma Theatre where another of Kathy’s good friends, Ann Holmes works as the Education Director. We will be staying with them Saturday night and we wanted to touch base and see the Theatre, then it was on to Barto where we met Eli & Jason and got a tour of their beautiful farmhouse, massive barn, and their awesome petting zoo full of animals, including their adorable goat Daisy May, their dog Trio, cats, ducks and their beautiful horses, Mo & Angel, which they rescued from the slaughter house.

Ann & Kathy



Soon we were off to meet two more kookoos, Tara & Rory at this amazing restaurant & pub, Union Jack’s Inn on the Manatawny. This incredible pub serves literally hundreds of varieties of beer from around the world, both on tap and in bottles. It was amazing…and somewhat dangerous, but we had a great time.

Tara, Amber & Rory

This morning after a visit to the GolfPort (combination golf course & airport) for breakfast, we visited the Manatawny Creek Winery where Tara works for some delicious wine tasting. Located in Douglasville, PA, the winery offers a wonderful selection of wines and Tara was way too kind to treat us to a fantastic collection of wine. This area of Pennsylvania is really nice, rolling hills, beautiful farms and quaint little towns and is worth a visit, especially if you have the sort of wonderful local insight that Eli, Jason, Rory & Tara provided. Thanks guys, we hope to return.

*T

http://www.manatawnycreekwinery.com
http://www.wilmatheater.org