OT35 Ap25 Trail markers (for us)

April 25--Independence, MO to Kansas border

May 1st 2011
April 25, 2011 We started our day hopeful that the Frontier Trails Library would have a complete copy of our great-great (?) aunt’s diary of her family’s passage from Iowa to California in 1852 along the Oregon Trail and perhaps some more on Capt. Mock (our great uncle’s) travels to California in 1849. We had delayed our travels almost 2 days because of Easter weekend and the town of Indep ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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Sharon Mock Whitaker and Valerie Mock

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We are sisters who began our love of travel with our parents when we were in grammar school. We grew up in Northern California and had traveled most of the Western States and Mexico before the 8th grade. Sharon traveled to Europe the first time when she graduated from high school to be a Girl Scout camp counselor and Valerie lived in Europe 7 years teaching the US military community at the graduate level. We rarely take a tour and usually travel on a low budget, by car, plane, and train. We have recently both retired and Sharon bought a Roadtrek RV, that we named Rosie II after our parent's "R... full info

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