After eating breakfast at the hotel, we left Upper Sandusky, Ohio. On the way out of town, my mother complained that the bed linen in her hotel room had been dirty, making it the third time on the trip where there was an issue with one of our rooms.
Instead of continuing west, we instead headed east 240 miles along U.S. Route 30, Interstate 71, Interstate 76, and U.S. Route 30 again until we arrived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Greensburg was in western Pennsylvania, and just slightly over two weeks earlier we had been in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Philadelphia.
Greensburg is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and the county seat of Westmoreland County, where my maternal 3rd-great-grandfather William David Kelley was born to Irish immigrant parents in 1828.
We arrived in the early afternoon, making our way to our reserved rooms at the Knights Inn, a motel chain notable for its Tudor era-themed properties.
After moving our luggage from the car to our rooms, we went to the courthouse and then the local library so I could research the Kelley family. Unfortunately, I came up empty handed. There were several Kelley families of the correct time period in the records, but I couldn't tie him to them.
After failing in my research, we returned to the motel and ate dinner at the Bob's Big Boy restaurant next door. I recall eating one of their famous Big Boy cheeseburgers, which was delicious.
Total Travel Distance: 240 miles (386 km)
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