May 12, 1843
Today we finished packing up all of our supplies in our wagons. I realize now that we will probably not survive. I mean what chance do we have against the ravaging dust, and we are at the back of the wagon train. All of our stuff will be full of dust, and we don’t have like any protection at all. Almost everything is going wrong, first of our travel guide isn’t coming with us. Next we see everyone else putting on stuff to block the Sun and we don’t have any. We are doomed!!! Another awful thing is, we are the only ones in our whole wagon train who have Conestogas - we have two! - so that must mean that we shouldn’t have gotten any. Everything is going wrong, and we just started. If I had it my way we would have left on the 15th because now we can’t change any of our inventory and we were really rushed at the end and we just shoved everything in the wagons and ran after the wagon train. Although we do have a lot of the stuff we need like food, tools and clothes we could have packed a lot of other stuff. As you can see we are in a big predicament. -Cecile Dupuy |