July 3, 2014 Part One On the Trails

This blog has hit a milestone – this is the 1000th blog since I started this – WOW!!!  Thanks to all my followers and encouragers throughout the years.  It is fun –

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Another road trip day – YEA!

We packed our lunches and took the back roads to Guernsey:

One of the Pony Express Stops:

Less than a mile away from the stop is Register Cliff.  The Cliff is behind this sign and rises 100 feet from the Platte River:

There were many signatures.  Sadly, many were graffiti.  But we did find many that were real:

So sad when folks desecrate historic areas – I do not understand their thought process!!!!!

And this is sad too:

The cemetery:

The area where they camped:

The Platte River:

And lots of “Muddappers” (not sure of their real name).  If you look real close, you can see the babies peaking out:

From there we went to:

Here is the trail:

Wow!!!  What hardy folks – I am so spoiled traveling in a motorhome!  Many of these folks walked that journey.  The wagons were mostly for carrying supplies.  Wow again!

We continued on to Guernsey State Park to see some of the work of the CCC.

See Part Two.