Category Archives: Adventure
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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