It is really a different trip for us this time as we head out for our tenth journey as Writers on the Road. For the first time since our darling Will was born we will head for the West coast! Time for some adventure. We also have somehow been following a rainy patch of the country this week as we have not had a sunny day since we left home at 10:30PM on Halloween night! We have made the most of it by going to more museums and historic homes than we usually manage on those beautiful sunny days when no one wants to go indoors. Our first stop was just in time for the 2PM tour at the Oneida Community Mansion in Oneida New York. This was a find of synchronicity as I searched for our silverware pattern and up popped this Mansion. Now Oneida happens to be exactly halfway to our first destination of our dear buddies, Irene and George. I was fascinated by this discovery that our very own silverware had been made by a commune started in the 1840;s .What made this community rather spicy was ...