Personal Narrative: The Journey To Go To Fort Vancouver

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Last night our train had a huge arguement. The Black’s, Smith’s and Mr. Richards all wanted to go to Fort Vancouver. The rest of us thought we could make it without the extra work. Mrs. Black ended up convincing her husband to skip going to Fort Vancouver. We ended up voting and it ended up being 4-2 in the end. Everybody was upset because of all the arguing but I was happy that we were going to get there a little bit earlier.

When we woke up, Mr. Richards was gone. He had gone without us. Even Mr. Black who also wanted to go to Fort Vancouver was supersized. No sane person would go alone. I hope he makes it, even though it's almost impossible. He seemed to be a really nice person, even though he didn’t talk very much.

I was very happy we didn’t have to go to Fort Vancouver but I almost wish we would have. We didn’t have enough money to use the path so we had to give all of our silverware along with the rest of our money to the toll man.
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We are on Barlow Road going around Mt. Hood. Our eyes are on the verge of closing and we have to watch every step or we’ll end up sliding all the way down to the bottom of this path. Surprisingly we all agreed we should go on the path in the mountains instead of going around, we only have enough food to go through the mountains. Everybody is really struggling right now. I am struggling to keep our oxen on the track, Jay was one step away from taking our whole wagon down the mountain. One of Mr. Long's mules took one wrong step and fell off of the path all the way down the mountain. Some of the Smith’s food fell out of their wagon and was ruined because it is so bumpy. I just hope it’s over very

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