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  1. So that is the latest. Don't know when we will get internet again, we may end up in Seattle before we have another connection. LFA 12:48 PM Sep 13th from web
  2. Umatilla, where we will break off the Oregon Trail & head home through Prosser and Yakima. We should be back in Seattle by Tuesday Evening. 12:47 PM Sep 13th from web
  3. So, we are spending a couple days in Boise, we will leave Monday & stop at the Interpretive Center in Baker City, OR, then head on up till 12:46 PM Sep 13th from web
  4. north to Pocatello and then picked up I-86 then I-84, with a side trip on hwy 30 from Heyburn to Twin Falls, then back to I-84 into Boise 12:45 PM Sep 13th from web
  5. we don't like leaving the RV out of our sight, whereas, some beat up old jeep would be perfect. So, from the KOA in Montpilier, we headed 12:42 PM Sep 13th from web
  6. that we can tow behind the RV & use to drive around on the back roads & dirt roads. Plus, when we have to leave a vehicle and travel on foot 12:41 PM Sep 13th from web
  7. So, we spent the night in the KOA & decided we had to come back to this area to spend more time. But what we really need is a vehicle that 12:40 PM Sep 13th from web
  8. as a future base camp. Loomis Families of America 10:18 AM Sep 13th from web
  9. the trail landmarks. We ended up in Montpilier, Idaho for the night at a KOA. It's a great little campsite & we plan to return & use this 10:18 AM Sep 13th from web
  10. at this point to take the trip easy & not take time for stops along the way. Instead, we will come back at a later time & more fully take in 10:17 AM Sep 13th from web
  11. spend the time we wanted to in several of the more important landmarks of the trail & the weariness we are now experiencing we have decided 10:16 AM Sep 13th from web
  12. worthwhile to spend hours trying to locate it. So we continued back to the main trail and headed west. Since we haven't really been able to 10:14 AM Sep 13th from web
  13. & only by chance did I read about it at Fort Larimie, but since the location was only generally described, we decided it wouldn't be 10:14 AM Sep 13th from web
  14. his name into a rock, as did several other members of the Train including Rebecca Ebey. This particular rock is hardly mentioned anywhere 10:08 AM Sep 13th from web
  15. trains were using Sublett's cutoff from South Pass. So, at a point on the cutoff on Holden Bluff, John Crockett, brother to Samuel, carved 10:07 AM Sep 13th from web
  16. Samuel Crockett who came with my ancestor in 1844 had convinced his parents to leave Missouri & travel out to Oregon. By 1851, some of the 10:04 AM Sep 13th from web
  17. the 1851 train, on which was the Walter Crockett, SR. family and freinds, including Mrs. Rebecca Ebey and her sons, including Winfield Ebey 10:03 AM Sep 13th from web
  18. and down the hiway in this area, we couldn't make out where it might be. The significance of this stone was not to the 1844 train, but to 10:02 AM Sep 13th from web
  19. just about thirty miles north of our course and so I decided to divert to go try and find this rock. Unfortunately, after much driving up 10:02 AM Sep 13th from web
  20. center at Fort Larimie, I discovered a book which showed the carving of emmigrant names on the Hudspeth's cutoff of the trail. This was 10:01 AM Sep 13th from web