This One Time, On the Oregon Trail…
photo by justin bugsy sailor
Do you ford the river? Or take a ferry across? Or caulk the wagon and float it? Oh, decisions!
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Today I might break the Great Health Blogger vow I took in October. (Oh, you didn’t know about that vow? When I stared this blog I had to promise not to veer from the topics of health and fitness and nutrition or risk something terrible. Like an electric shock. Or a trip to Taco Bell.)
But this is worth it. And just because I fear Taco Bell almost as much as I fear coming into contact with any part of Snookie’s skin, here’s a health tidbit for you:
The LA Times talks about “pine mouth,” which is a nasty after-effect of eating rancid or otherwise bad pine nuts. I think the Fit Bottomed Girls talked about this at some point, but I’m too lazy to go find the post. Bottom line: Eat bad pine nuts and taste metal in your mouth for a week or more. Gross, I know. This is the reason I haven’t bought pine nuts in eons.
Anyhow…
Does anyone remember spending their elementary school years fording rivers, fixing wagon wheels, and stockpiling wild boar while trying to make it to Oregon? No, just me?
If there’s one thing that made third grade so utterly amazing, it was the Oregon Trail game. Sure, Ma always got yellow fever and my little brother—who I usually named Dweeb Breath or Giant Dufus—was often bartered away for some more ammunition, but all in all it was a memorable, wholesome game. (I never did make it all the way west to Oregon but c’est la vie on the trail.)
Anyone who played the game should watch this video—a trailer for Oregon Trail: The Movie. No, it’s not really going to be a movie. Yes, it’s awesome.
And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sad. I feel so old now.
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HELLS YES! I LOVE THAT GAME! I played Oregon Trail (or Word/Number Muncher) ALL the time in grade school! On those flimsy diskette thingies. I don’t even know what they’re called.
Loved the Snookie reference…I’m such a Jersey Shore sucker.
And pine nuts going bad….hm. I’ll need to consume with caution!
Have a great weekend, Tracey!
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Ahhh… good ole’ Oregon Trail! Love that game!
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I have no idea what’s happening, but in my defense, I’m a teenager and I didn’t grow up in the States!
Oregon Trail sounds fun though 
Wei-Wei
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Tracey Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Haha…I thought of you when I wrote that last line. I knew you’d be thinking I was some kind of crazy. To fill you in: The Oregon Trail was an educational computer game kids played in the ’80s and early ’90s. It was dorky and unintentionally hilarious at times.
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I always got dysentary and died!
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Katie @ Health for the Whole Self Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Haha me too, unfortunately!
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Oh I almost always went for it and decided to ford the river.
I also regularly died and had to start over. Maybe this was a warning that I would never enjoy camping in my later years?
The fact that they decided to make a movie about this is pure awesomeness.
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Amy B @ Second City Randomness Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Totally read that wrong and watched the video. Now I’m disappointed, but the video made me laugh so it’s ok… ha.
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Tracey Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I know, I first thought it was an actual trailer, too. It’d make one funny feature-length movie.
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Ohmygoodness I LOVED that game. We’d do anything so that our teacher would let us go into the computer lab (with green-and-black text only, remember when we had to draw ASCII pictures?? monitors). Oh and pine nuts? I didn’t know that! I eat them all the time and that has never happened to me. Now I’m afraid.
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I laughed my butt off when I saw this! Thanks for the Friday Chuckles! Have you seen the same type of thing for Jane Austin’s Fight Club….it’s pretty humorous.
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I loved playing Oregon Trail! I can’t believe there is a movie now??
Now I’ll have memories of Dot Matrix and dial up. All day long. Thank you Tracey for making me feel even older than I already do!!
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I’d get so competitive with the Oregon Trail…I hated when my family died off or I didn’t kill the biggest moose!
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…okay I’M OLD – but I have no idea what your talking about LOL!!
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Tracey Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Hm, maybe it’s a U.S. thing.
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Woo! I loved Oregon Trail. And what was the other one—Amazon Trail? Totally awesome… haven’t thought about that in years. Oh, good times…
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Okay, you are not that much older than me, but for some reason I sadly have no idea what you’re talking about. It looks like a fun game! My childhood was filled with the usual suspects…tag and hide and seek…not very many computer games though. Anyway, this looks awesome. Maybe it never made it to Canada?
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Crap, I always thought it was some stupid Facebook game, lol. Everyone got dysentery and bailed out early, lol.
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I just am popping in to thank you for your support the past few days
xo
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I loved that game too! You are not old – you just have a good memory.
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