As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I had a bit of shopping to do.  Most important . . . found a roaster and bought some coffee beans.  Can’t wait to try them tomorrow morning! Not much to share today.  Took the dogs for a longer walk and discovered that the…

I think I may have to close the book on trying to find any more information on Anthony Murray. I had it all worked out how Anthony Murray fit into William Murray’s family tree, and then I came across these details: There’s an Anthony Murray in Dorchester land records of…

While it’s intriguing digging into my ancestry, it’s way more fun catching up with living relatives.  Last night I had a chance to meet up with Jenny Craig (Lee) who lives with her husband, Mike Lee, in Washington DC.  Hadn’t seen her in at least 30 years.  Lucky me, her…

I spent a good portion of this afternoon at the Maryland State Archives.  My expectations were low, and those expectations were met.  Nothing on Anthony Murray.  What’s interesting is that there is pretty much only one Murray family in Dorchester at that time, descendants of William Vans Murray who immigrated…

It was so nice to have a short drive to my next camp spot.  It gave me time to have my coffee and take off in the truck – without the trailer – to visit an ancestral site here in Lancaster, PA.  Marie Ferree’s grave site was about 20 minutes…

Where to begin?  Today was such an intense but fruitless day. I left my spot in the Boston area early on the chance I could stop by the Wyoming Historical Society.  Wyoming is the valley where my Marvin ancestors lived (Grandmother Hallie Marvin’s folks).  It was iffy whether or not…

No luck in hearing back from the Wellfleet Historical Society.  I would have driven over there if there were a small possibility of finding new information, but with no contact, no specific place to go and it being a nearly 2-hour drive, that just didn’t make sense.  Instead, I focused…

Left beautiful Wompatuck State Park campground (in the rain) to arrive at another campground that I thought would be nicer by having hookups.  Hmm, how to describe this place.  It does have water, electricity and WiFi.  That I do like, but it’s the kind of place where people come to…

Uh, oh, starting to get some bad weather.  It’s been so unbelievably beautiful this whole trip so far (well, except the 84 degree day in Badlands), and now cold rain.  It’s definitely not unbearable, but those beautiful blue skies against the fall foliage are gone. Today the strangest thing happened. …

Today was definitely a down day – a well-deserved down day.  I awoke late, had a leisurely breakfast with delicious coffee, took the pooches for a walk, then decided to head into town to one, replace the broken shower head and two buy the necessary supplies to reattach the medicine…