Pioneers now and then

Oregon was beautiful to look at but we didn't have too much time to go off the beaten path(too many hills) but Idaho has a different landscape and appeal. It seems we have been following the Oregon/Mormon/California trail backwards. We stopped in Glenns Ferry were the famos crossings of Three islands occurred. Every year there is a reinactment but I guess horses have drowned so that stopped that event. The next day we biked to Declo and took a side trip to City of Rocks where the immigrants signed their names in axel grease. Next stop on the trail for us was Massacre Rock where we actually saw the wagon ruts in the ground and from there we biked to Blackfoot. While biking to Blackfoot I realized that I was visiting my parents past.
This is were my father met my mother. We found the house that my mom lived in with her sister, Dea, very cool. They bought a trailer after they were married and lived in Blackfoot for a while before they pulled it all the way to New Hamphire, where Wayne was born. Two weeks after I was born, my Uncle Benny(Ben's namesake) and cousin Anthony drove my mom back to Idaho where I spent my first several months with mom's family while my father was stationed in Hawaii. In our last week of biking we will be biking through West Point, NY where I was born. It is just something that I thought was cool as we follow these trails of pioneering history as well as Butler/Berardi/Buehler history.