Everyone is slowly arriving for
our departure in the morning. We are camped in St. Joseph, Missouri,
at the Riverfront Park that sits on the Missouri River.
Our wagonmaster is Ben Kern, from
Evansville, Wyoming. He is 73, but you wouldn't even think age so
much when you see him for he seems to be quite up to the task and
responsibility. He will have completed his third wagon train
across the country when we arrive in Sacramento, a feat rather
awesome to the average and not so average Joe. He also headed
up the Oregon Trail in 1993 and the Mormon Trail in 1997.
Our trail boss, Donny Marincic,
has also experienced these re-enactments with having done the Mormon
Trail and part of the Oregon Trail. He's a soft spoken man who
seems to be the type who would keep his head when all about him
chaos could erupt. These two fellas are good hands
and we'll have a great experience because of them.
