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Our First Historical Park: Fort Kearny (Danger: Dinosaurs along the way!)
(This is the fourth in a series of posts that follows our real-life adventures along The Oregon Trail, Apple ][ version. We arrived here after crossing the Kansas River and driving a few hundred miles across Nebraska.) After crossing the Kansas River, we had a journey through Kansas and part of Nebraska before we’d get [...]
Heaping Amounts of Praise for the aCar Android App
Hello, fellow nerds! Apologies for the long silence, but we’ve been a little preoccupied with the relocation of NT HQ (to Washington DC, if you’re curious). That’s just about finished now, so you can once again look forward to [weekly? regular? yes, at least regular.] posts. Today we’re going to double up on the nerdery [...]
Crossing the Kansas River
(This is the third in a series of posts that follows our real-life adventures along The Oregon Trail, Apple ][ version. We arrived here after crossing what we thought was the Big Blue River.) In the early 1840s, some upstart Canadians—the Pappan brothers (also spelled Papin and Papan)—thought it would be a good idea to [...]
Crossing the Big Blue River (we thought)
(This is the second in a series of posts that follows our real-life adventures along The Oregon Trail, Apple ][ version. We arrived here after the Oregon Trail trailhead.) In the Apple ][ game, the Big Blue River Crossing is the third stop, 185 miles into the adventure. However, as we were meticulously (*cough*) mapping [...]
Road Games
Before addressing the topic of this post, I (Rachel) would like to take a moment to vent: the arduous process of getting screenshots from our beloved Droid RAZRs came damned close to making me root my phone. In fact, I originally caved and forked over $4.99 for an app, but grabbed a refund almost immediately [...]
Here the Oregon Trail Began
(This is the first in a series of posts that follows our real-life adventures along The Oregon Trail, Apple ][ version.) In The Oregon Trail video game, pioneers begin their journey in Independence, Missouri in the year 1848. Thankfully, we did not transport ourselves back in time to 1848—neither of us look all that fetching [...]
First!
Howdy! We are pleased to finally launch this blog, which we hope will be a source of amusement, inspiration, and information about Traveling While Nerdy. We’ve been traveling (nerdily) together for a year now, and besides going to some very cool places (like The Oregon Trail!) we’ve collected a bunch of tips, tricks, and innovations [...]
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