Posted on 04/01/2015 4:50:45 AM PDT by tioga
Had a two-week job up in Mountain Home ID 2 years ago. The Oregon Trail goes through that valley, and there is a beautiful Snake River crossing museum a few east that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The back gravel-”paved” roads behind the power plant were marked with OT markers, so I got a “Driving the Trail” guidebook for that county of ID and went looking. Bland, very bleak and forbidding landscapes! I am surpirsed that as many survived as they did in the open trail for 9 months.
Then again ....
Can you imagine two 6 year old kids sitting in the back of the wagon crossing the sagebrush?
“He's looking at me!”
“She's sitting on my side of the seat!”
“Stop that or I'll tell!”
“Moooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmy! She's touching me!”
“I'll tell!”
And the infinite “Are we there yet?”
LOL They could make the kids get out and walk the trail, kept them to tired to whine.
You forgot the all important, “MOMMY! I have to go to the bathroom!”
They could make the kids look for buffalo chips for fuel “or there won’t be any supper!”
and no cell phone or game boys
Robert Menendez, venal politician. Even the NYT is pointing it out.
Did you love how he disarmed the blowhard?
LOL When the NYTimes slams you, you are toast. A+++
Yep.
Still don’t believe he was unarmed.
My first official night back on duty. New shift, new crew. We shall see. Been a long time.
“get out and walk”
My 1st husband threatened to do just that to the cub once when we were on the way to NM to visit his family over the holidays-she was 12 and had a friend staying with us whose parents were out of town also. After listening to a Donna Summer tape, they kept chanting beep beep, toot toot until somewhere in the empty area between Ft. Stockton and Orla, my husband pulled off the road and threatened to make them walk-it was snowing and just after midnight, so they shut up-but we were in a Suburban, not a wagon...
I hope you have a quiet first night back, Ti...
I’m picturing the mother trudging along ahead of the wagon.
Getting more and more frustrated. Hungry. Tired. Thirsty. Nervous about going west in the first place. Worried about supper, Indians, snakes, her feet, and her knees.
So the father listens to this bickering and comes back exactly that: “If you kids don’t just shut up and behave I’ll this wagon around right here and we’ll go home!!!”
Kids shut up. Mother is thinking “Please, yes, please, just give him an excuse to turn around....”
We saw a special on The Oregon Trail recently - I agree - hard to imagine anyone surviving a trip like that without food available along the way.... we are definitely spoiled these days!
Nicely done
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