after a good night's sleep we had a good breakfast and back on the road with the Exchange Director, Robin. We're off to the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center where we had good film on the adventure, Then we met Captain Clark who walked us through the museum explaining how they did the adventure. He was dress perfectly and explained everything as if he were the real Captain Clark. It was great. This adventure was truly coming alive in my mind. Every small aspect of this amazing trip is unbelievable. For example a modern moving van will haul 10 tons, this group hauled 25 tons of stuff for this trip up stream using only human power. They took 45 people on this uncharted trip for two and a half years through Indian territory for eight thousand miles and only one person died - of ruptured appendix (he would have died of that in NYC in 1804). I was so impressed with everything. Then we had a presentation of the medicine of the day - incredible. So then we were off to the falls. Of which there were five, not one as L&C expected.
It took them 30 days to portage around them, not the afternoon they had thought. We had a great picnic lunch and the bird watching was really nice. We were seeing birds we would not see down south. The lunch was very good; make your own sandwiches with great variety and fruit salad. After lunch we went thrift store shopping for a while and really didn't find much of interest.
Next it was dinner with their club and the visitors in the park and Jim and Phylis Reed gave us wonderful stories of details that made the adventure so interesting like when the Grizzly bear ran down Capt. Lewis right where we were sitting. Or when Private Colter came back to trap beaver and was captured by the Blackfeet, stripped, and was chased down as game (presumably to kill him). He killed one Indian and then had to go back to St Louis with only his hands and naked body - 1200 miles. These people were supermen. We had Pasties - a giant empanada with beef and vegetables in a crust, covered with gravy. This is what the copper miners used to eat in the mines. So another fine day. We ended up tired and fell asleep at 10:20. we're sleeping good here in Montana. Just a note that the local club members are just as excited about the event as us because many have never gotten involved with Lewis and Clark frenzies before - like most locals, not knowing whats in their back yard.
It took them 30 days to portage around them, not the afternoon they had thought. We had a great picnic lunch and the bird watching was really nice. We were seeing birds we would not see down south. The lunch was very good; make your own sandwiches with great variety and fruit salad. After lunch we went thrift store shopping for a while and really didn't find much of interest.
Next it was dinner with their club and the visitors in the park and Jim and Phylis Reed gave us wonderful stories of details that made the adventure so interesting like when the Grizzly bear ran down Capt. Lewis right where we were sitting. Or when Private Colter came back to trap beaver and was captured by the Blackfeet, stripped, and was chased down as game (presumably to kill him). He killed one Indian and then had to go back to St Louis with only his hands and naked body - 1200 miles. These people were supermen. We had Pasties - a giant empanada with beef and vegetables in a crust, covered with gravy. This is what the copper miners used to eat in the mines. So another fine day. We ended up tired and fell asleep at 10:20. we're sleeping good here in Montana. Just a note that the local club members are just as excited about the event as us because many have never gotten involved with Lewis and Clark frenzies before - like most locals, not knowing whats in their back yard.
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