#the hunting minigame is actually broken but it's funnier to imagine that John is just a terrible shot

[good-to-drive]

Well, we made it to the Sierra Nevadas, but things are looking grim. The actual Donner-Reed Party was here by November, which wasn't necessarily a death sentence, but an early snow delayed them by several weeks. With all the commotion, we didn’t get here until January and we’re currently low on food, completely out of meat, and snowbound.

John went hunting and heroically managed to bag 3 pounds of game, averaging 0.15 lbs of game per bullet. For context, we started this trip with four hundred pounds of bacon alone.

Unfortunately, he was also heroically mauled by a mountain lion. In lieu of salt to rub into the wound (?!) I treated it with an antiseptic.

Meanwhile, Paul has caught 234 pounds of fish without incident. Truly, John is the alpha male of The Beatles.

SO I managed to get the iconic millennial PC game The Oregon Trail 5 (a la “you have died of dysentery”) working on my laptop, and for obvious reasons* I'm fascinated by both The Beatles and the Donner Party so naturally I've decided to take The Beatles on the Donner Party route. *I'm a big fan of suffering.

They're leaving Independence, Missouri in June 1846 just like the Donner-Reed Party, and are headed for what is now California. John is in charge (I imagine he wouldn't go otherwise) so if/when he dies it's game over.

(btw I don't want to clog up anyone's dashboard so you might want to block the tag 'the beatles oregon trail 5' bc I'll tag everything with that.)