We Made it to Palmyra

This morning at 9:00 a.m. we left Augusta, Maine and drove to the New Hampshire border and cut across the corner of the state into Massachusetts.  After crossing Massachusetts we drove across New York to Palmyra arriving by 6:00 p.m.  We spent over $20 in tolls to travel on these highways.

The leaves were not as spectacular as those in New Brunswick, but they were some pretty (spoken like a true maritimer although I think in Nova Scotia some pretty means extremely pretty while I just mean somewhat pretty or quite pretty or something like that).

As we drove through New York state we were fairly close to the place where my Shewfelt ancestors settled in the early 1700s when they came from Germany.  The county was covered with rolling hills and looked like a nice place to live so I was wondering why some of them left.  I decided it was either because the land wasn't good enough to farm or because there was no land for the younger children and they had to go off into the wilderness to find land.