O Pioneers!
{a rather fitting Pioneer Day image}
So I brought my "real" camera on our epic road trip...and quickly realized that it was going to be more hassle than it was worth to lug it out and take pictures, while keeping tabs on kids and hauling around all of our stuff. There were less than a handful of places that I actually whipped the Rebel out, and Nauvoo was one of them. {Spoiler alert -- by Day 3 of our "journey," I officially packed the camera away and stuck with my cell phone for the rest of the trip.}
I don't usually blog on Sundays these days, but with it being the 24th of July {"Pioneer Day" -- a state holiday in Utah, because it's the day the first group of pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley}, I thought putting up the rest of my Nauvoo pictures was apropos.
As we set off on our own trek across the plains, I couldn't help thinking time and time again about those early church members and pioneers (some of whom were my own ancestors and some of whom were Scott's) and what it must have been like for them as they left their homes, possessions, and in some cases other family members, to escape persecution and seek a place of refuge and rest.
The trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake was approximately 1300 miles long, and ultimately led 70,000 people across the plains between 1846-1868 in search of religious freedom. We took a more northerly route to get to Utah and broke it up with other stops along the way, but it still took only a fraction of the time it took the pioneers. In five days of driving, we covered roughly the same distance as 95 days of traveling for the covered wagons.
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