Just when you think you’ve explored every corner of the Show-Me State, along comes a place that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder how you missed it all this time.
Nestled in the rolling Ozark hills about 20 miles east of Springfield lies Seymour, Missouri – a community where horse-drawn buggies share the road with cars and the pace of life moves to a different rhythm than the rest of our hurried world.
The moment you spot that first Amish buggy with its distinctive orange safety triangle, you realize you’ve stumbled upon something authentic in a world increasingly filled with artificial experiences.
Driving into Seymour feels like crossing an invisible boundary between centuries – not in a manufactured, theme-park way, but in the genuine sense of entering a place where different values and traditions have shaped the landscape…