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Flashback to Day Two on the Road

Flashback to Day Two on the Road

A day of grave hunting; Beach photos, too

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Mar 13, 2025
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Edith Wharton’s The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts.

It rained hard last night. There was minor flooding and strong winds. The forecast for today is partly sunny with more rain showers. Tomorrow, it will rain again. Morro Bay has been stormier this time around, but it matches my mood of late.

It’s a good time to relive some joy. I need to catch you up on some of our previous stops, including the hectic second day of our trip. Those first few days on the road were frantic but fun. That is if you are into chasing after literary (and other creatives) graves. It was a treasure hunt of sorts.

You may remember we woke up in the Berkshires that first morning, where we visited Herman Melville’s Arrowhead Farm, where he wrote Moby Dick. Minutes later, we were at Edith Wharton’s The Mount and then the little red farmhouse where Nathaniel Hawthorne scribbled some of his books.

We stopped in Stockbridge at Norman Rockwell’s old studio on Main Street, which was above the old Alice’s Restaurant, made …

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