This one was on my original list but I had to abbreviate it a little. This one was to eat a sandwich at Donner Pass. Cold cuts was what I was thinking. On our trip to CA we stayed the night in Reno and unfortunately ate a buffet breakfast. Donner Pass is like an hour out of Reno so there what no way I could eat a sandwich. We stopped and I bit Danielle and had to be happy with that. I feel a little bad about the irreverence of this 40 for 40 but it is funny. The reason I feel bad is I have never been there and didn't really understand how horrible that would have been. The Sierra Nevadas are a huge mountain range that as soon as you think you are out of them another range appears. It is literally up and down. I have a new respect for the Donner Party as well as any of the early pioneers and 49ers that went across the Sierra Nevadas. Then when I taught 8th grade history we also covered the subject of the Chinese building the Railroad through the mountains and again a huge respect for that feat of building the railroad from Sacramento to Promontory Point. The Irish really had it easy coming from Omaha. Check off Number 29......Donner Pass.
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