Moving On

Wednesday we headed back to Pennsylvania and the hopefully well rested Timmber Wolf. On the way we returned the rental car and then relaxed the rest of the afternoon. Thursday morning we headed west again, driving through the area where a number of my father's natural father's ancestry lived, mostly in Potter County, around Galeton.

We had intended to stop and find the Crippen Cemetery there but between the rain and the difficult roads decided to drop that idea.We do have pictures taken last year by my sister's husband and there is a picture and transcript online on the Painted Hills Genealogy Society website. Several generations of Crippens are buried there including my father's great grandfather Erastus Crippen who was wounded at Gettysburg on July 1st at the McPherson Farm, just yards away from where my father's great grandfather on the adopted line, Chalkley Sears, was also wounded although at that time neither family knew each other or had the slightest inkling that they would join through his adoption some sixty years later. My sister's comment to that was that both sides seemed to be big on strange sounding names!

We meant to go all the way to Ohio through the Pennsylvania hills on the regular highways, decent but one lane each way for the most part, but our Puppy Pad aka the RV GPS decided differently and sent us north to New York and I86 up there. Easier driving anyway.

Thursday afternoon found us in Thompson, Ohio, wine country, where we drove on a back road between the grape fields or whatever they should be called to our next scheduled RV stop at Heritage Hills KOA, also known as the Grand River Valley KOA. We could have driven all the way to west Cleveland to Geoff's sister's but that would have been arriving exhausted late in the day.

It also meant we had some time on Friday to take a detour to General RV in North Canton to have them take care of that little problem with the TV antenna rig that we managed to rip off the roof back in Virginia as mentioned in Time and Distance at the NRA Firearms Museum. They were super at the dealership and managed to squeeze in our repair and check the rest of the rooftop to make sure there was no other damage, climbing up there being a bit beyond our capabilities.

We had a super visit with some of Geoff's family in Bay Village, Ohio, parked in his sister's driveway where his brother-in-law had even provided us with a 30 amp electric hookup! Sunday we headed on to the Dayton area where we had dinner with Geoff's nephew. The next morning we celebrated the Cleveland Cavaliers victory over the Golden State Warriors but were sort of glad we are were out of the huge excitement in Cleveland itself!

Today Geoff is off at the National Museum of the US Air Force after waiting for and finally getting the pick up from Enterprise Car rental. Me? I get to relax here in Timmber Wolf and catch up the blog. The "here" is the Enon Beach campground which is literally just off the interstate and even features a close by train track. Actually it is a fairly nice place and we have already learned days ago to run a fan or something as a masking white noise at night. Tonight we'll take advantage of having the rental and go eat and pick up a few things at the store. Tomorrow Geoff will go back to the museum while I prep for heading west on Wednesday.

Geoff is of course under orders to bring me back a souvenir but you'll have to wait for the next post to find out what was added to our collection!