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Watching “Organ Trail,” a horror Western movie, with Miss Dolly Cat in our messy playroom. #Scarathlon #bloody #horrormovies #5points #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

In 2011 the author and his brother drove a mule-drawn covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon along the historic Oregon trail. This is the story of their trip with anecdotes about settlers who went before. Buck plays himself and his brother as mismatched personalities who come to respect each other through adversity. Interesting and entertaining, and also leaves me a little jealous. But TBH one night in a wagon would probably be enough for me 😆

Rinker Buck, writing in 2015, about George Washington's side gig as a land developer:

"Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump."

Wow, that line aged badly fast ....

😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor

For my friends bday she chose to have a group of us go to the Denver history museum for their Oregon Trail IRL event! It was super fun! We walked around the museum doing different games or crafts and we‘re given pins from different NPCs that said how we died! A beer at the beginning and a hot toddy at the end. A very neat museum experience! Also got to meet the inventors of the game!

A book on my backlist TBR with #newinthetitle or at least the subtitle. #AuldLangReads

A few items still on the go for me in this week‘s #bookreport

Elderly father finished The Oregon Trail which was excellent. Kid finished Trapped. I read Vol 2 of Giant Days which was delightful and My Sunshine Away which had me engrossed (thanks Cindy!) Still listening to Cinder as an audiobook which is fun - AND - picked up Blackout which is the third in the Oxford Time Travel series and a third of the way into that.

#weeklyforecast

This weeks #libraryhaul and a bit. (The Dickens is from the shelf)

For Dad - The Search for the Sydney - The Oregon Trail
For Kid - Trapped! - the last one in the Framed series

For me - Human Voices - been on my TBR for a dozen years. It won the Booker in 1979. And getting back to Our Mutual Friend which I‘d put aside for more urgent reads. Fingers crossed I can get back into the groove without having to restart 🤞

Rinker Buck and his brother buy a covered wagon and three mules and decide to take the Oregon Trail. And along the way, he teaches us about the trail‘s history and why it‘s so important to American culture. This was a great memoir, travelogue, and history book, with some great mythology and emotion mixed in. I had fun with this.

Best title card ever? 🤣🤣

I read this book in preparation of a roadtrip through the US later this year. I admit I only read the parts set in the states we‘re planning to visit. That may be the reason why I was not captured by the book. It read more like a diary then an edited book.

Two men are travelling the Oregon Trail in the traditional way: in a covered wagon with mules. They cross many states of course of which I choose #Wyoming for my #ReadUSA2019 challenge.

This book details Buck‘s true account of his choice to #takethelongwayhome by traveling all 2000 miles of the Oregon Trail the old fashioned way... by covered wagon pulled by mules 🏜
#anglophileapril

Rinker Buck‘s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules. It's a must-read for any fan of history. The book is by turns hilarious, tragic, and illuminating.

Oh man i really want this box set!! Oregon Trail and its a choose your own adventure! This was one of my favorite games growing up!

An account of the author‘s journey with his brother as they traveled the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way – in a covered wagon with a team of mules. The book juxtaposes the personal story of the siblings‘ relationship with the history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. 4 stars.

Riding out #Florence by playing with fake calamities. #hurricane

Was in the neighborhood of The Book Loft this afternoon so I had to pop in... And found 3 #chunksters on sale 😍
2 were on my tbr already and how could I resist the tagged book for $6?!

I love encountering Little Free Libraries on my walks. Found this one as I was walking to the famous rock in Cannon Beach. #littlefreelibrary #oregon #vacation

Here is the rest of my HPB 20% off haul! When I told the hundred I was gonna go over there even though I have plenty to read already, he said, “Who cares? Books are cheap and they‘re your thing.” Good thing he really has no idea how much I spend! Ignorance is bliss, right? 🤣🤣

The move is over, the boxes are far from done being unpacked, but it's time to get back to my TBR stack.

#JubilantJuly Day 29 - Best Buds

Rinker Buck and his brother Nick didn't start out that way, but by the end of their adventure crossing the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon, they were definitely best buds.

I'm not getting as much reading done during this vacation, but when I do, this is my view. Woke up this morning to the sight of 4 hot air balloons rising over the ridge! 😀

I want to read this book solely based on my love of the old school Oregon Trail game! #travel #sizzlinsummerbooks

Let the adventure begin. Hopefully it's all of the excitement and none of the dysentery.

So my husband and I tried out my new #CupidGoesPostal game on the weekend. This is what happened to me. TWICE. Thank you, @UnidragonFrag (I think). 😂😂

Just look at this Oregon-themed bounty I received from my #CupidGoesPostal match, @UnidragonFrag ! You are SUCH a good Litsy stalker. I've wanted The Oregon Trail book for ages and now I can die of dysentery while playing the game, too. ? Proust and the Squid looks fantastic and will be right at home on my "Books about Books" shelf. I love the (always needed) pretty notebooks and I finally have colouring bookmarks (Jane Austen, too!) ??

Bring on the dysentery! Do I know how to party or what?

#SeasonsReadings2016 Day 10 - Should Be a Movie

This family saga, adventure story, history lesson, and rollicking good time should definitely be adapted into a movie!

This book has me Googling 'Mules for Sale' ads more than I normally do. Yes, that is something I do every so often. If I ever get back into riding, I want a mule this time.

While this doesn't exactly have to do with books, I'm sure many of my fellow Litsians played this game as a kid and would nerd out over this tactile version just as much as I did. 🤓

I listened to this, and I probably should have read it. I really enjoyed the story of the Buck brothers on the trail and all of the Trail information and history. I had to find a pic of Nick and Rinker after I finished, and I have to say that my imagination wasn't too far off base.

Great memoir by Rinker Buck as he attempts to navigate the modern day Oregon Trail.

I grew up playing the Oregon Trail computer game back in the 80s. Loved it. That, plus the fact that I've moved back to my home state of Oregon, compelled this obligatory purchase - The Oregon Trail Card Game 😆 #oregontrail #games

I'd never hear the term "participatory history" before, but still loved this book! The author, his bother, and a little dog ?, traveled the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon drawn by a team of mules. It's #fullofadventure but be forewarned: you may want a pet mule by the end? #booktober

Library and bookstore haul. One for me and one for 8th grader at each place.

Here's my #wildFridaynight...finishing up The Oregon Trail on audiobook while making frozen stuffed Kongs for the spoiled dog crew (basically, you soak the kibble, stuff it into Kongs--being held here by our housemate's old yogurt cups--and pop it into the freezer. Each afternoon we give the two old lady dogs a frozen Kong to eat & give the dumb Golden a freshly stuffed one because he's too dumb to figure out how to unstuff a frozen Kong.)

#SeptPhotoChallenge Day 26 - Unputdownable

I first found Rinker Buck in the very booknerdiest of ways: C-SPAN's BookTV. Buck and his brother acquired a covered wagon, a team of mules, and set out to do a historically accurate recreation of the Oregon Trail. There are adventures aplenty, but also a lot of self-discovery and learning about America. Buck's writing is great - think David McCullough mixed with Dorothy Parker. I couldn't put it down!

Heading home from a wonderful long weekend catching up with friends in Oregon. But OH MY WORD can they talk!! 😆Looking forward to quiet time on the plane & finally getting back to quality reading time.

Snapshots from this morning's walking & audiobook reading session with "The Oregon Trail". #audiobookactivities

How much am I liking my new "walking book" audiobook? *This* much...! I set out for a 1.5 mile walk & I was enjoying the book too much, I couldn't turn it off, so I walked on & listened a bit further. ?? Thankfully, I am walking twice per day now, so I'll get back to my book very soon!

As I am working to increase my stamina for my upcoming Disneyland trip (only 22 days away!), finding a walking book I can't stop listening to is a good thing!

I started a new "walking book" (audiobook I read only during my daily walks) because apparently reading 8 other books (including 3 via @SerialReader ) isn't enough for me. ? This is a long book (over 16 hours), but an interesting one as it combines my lifelong loves of the Oregon Trail, historical recreations/re-enactments of any sort, & my love of feats of endurance all in one challenge documented in this book. Can't wait until my next walk!

An enjoyable book, part travel narrative, part history and part family memoir. The author is a reporter with a mid- sized paper, middle aged, divorced, who has started to drink too much and feels as though he is stuck in in a rut. So he makes the rather extraordinary decision to cross the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon without a support team (apart from his eccentric Brother Nick and Nick‘s dog Olive Oil) .

I REALLY enjoyed this book. It's part adventure, part history, with some family drama and his memoir. There's good humor in it and a few rants. Lots of historical information about The Trail presented as part of the trip. Bonus - no one died of dysentery. Wasn't thrill to hear at the end that it was a book deal before the trip but I already loved it at that point. Makes a great audio, listened at 2x.

I REALLY enjoyed this book. It's part adventure, part history, with some family drama and his memoir. There's good humor in it and a few rants. Lots of historical information about The Trail presented as part of the trip. Bonus - no one died of dysentery. Wasn't thrill to hear at the end that it was a book deal before the trip but I already loved it at that point. Makes a great audio, listened at 2x.

Yay for another #FunPhotoFriday! I love bookmarks as souvenirs, and four of my favorites are from last year's National Book Festival in Washington DC

I can't....I just can't make up my mind. Determination, why have you rent me so asunder?! Please. I'm begging you all. 2 or 3 of your top choices from here. I don't know which to choose. So lost....so very lost...