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You and three friends are about to embark on a perilous journey. You will be traveling by wagon from Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley, Oregon. It is going to be a long, long 1,960-mile walk.

You will face wildlife, starvation, disease, thieves, severe weather, accidents, and worst of all, no libraries :)

But you can do it together with your companions. (I promise you will not die of dysentery.)

Team 5
Tori
Janeylou
Nora
Susan A

* miles traveled - 1,610

*Supply Cards available*


*Supply Cards used*

For Week 1 each team member will read for one (1) Supply Card.

Supply Cards
Medicine - read a book with "doctor" found in the text
Spare Parts - read a book that is in a series, but is NOT the first
Clothes - read a book with one fully clothed person on the cover
Clean Water - read a book that is set along a lake, sea, or ocean (50% of the time)
Food - read a book with double letters in a word in the title.

For Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10, you will be traveling. Each team member will read a book that will get you 70 miles along the trail.

To go 70 miles, read a book:
with the numbers 7 and 0 in the publication date - OR -
written by an author whose first, middle, or last initial can be found in MILES - OR -
with a title that begins with a letter found in THE OREGON TRAIL (you can use or ignore 'A', 'An', 'The')

For Weeks 4 and 7, you can read any 140+ page book you'd like.

First of all, pick a name for your family, group, or company.

Second, decide who will read for which Supply Card.

Third, decide who will make the team's Completion Posts. (It can be one person, or you can take turns. The team's Completion Post can be posted as soon as everyone has reported. The latest the team Completion Post can be posted is early Monday morning.)

Fourth, sit back and wait for Day One of the most incredible journey.

Hi team 👋👋
Im Janine from England and looking forward to this one ( sounds nice and easy compared to some of the others ive taken on) 😄

Ive just got up so going to get myself a coffee and watch the squirrels.in the snow for a while and ill think of some team names

Roaming Readers
Bookish Backpackers
Paperback Pilgrims
Thrifty Travellers
Reading Rovers

Hi team! I’m Nora from the Midwest of the United States. I love all genres and I am very much looking forward to this challenge too!

Janeylou wrote: "Roaming Readers
Bookish Backpackers
Paperback Pilgrims
Thrifty Travellers
Reading Rovers"

These are wonderful names, Jane! I’m drawn to Paperback Pilgrims as a team name!

Hi Team. I'm Susan, from NJ.

Thanks for thinking up some names Jane! I like all. Paperback Pilgrims sounds good to me.

Can i just say girls , its Janine not Jane 😄😄😄, thought it best to say now rather than later .
Tbh im called alsorts JJ from some workmates , Jen from others , as long as its not Jan ( which for some reason i do not like and my mother insists on using it all.the time 🙄🙄)

So just waiting for Tori and we all here

Janeylou wrote: "Can i just say girls , its Janine not Jane 😄😄😄, thought it best to say now rather than later .
Tbh im called alsorts JJ from some workmates , Jen from others , as long as its not Jan ( which for so..."

Yikes. We've been on challenge teams before, right? I'm sorry for using the wrong name.





Do you think we should send a message to Tori? Is anyone friends with her? Challenge starts Monday and we have some things to sort.

Susan A wrote: "Janeylou wrote: "Can i just say girls , its Janine not Jane 😄😄😄, thought it best to say now rather than later .
Tbh im called alsorts JJ from some workmates , Jen from others , as long as its not J..."

I think that we should let Lanelle know that we have not heard from Tori yet. I’m unfortunately not friends with Tori.

No probs Susan, i went to message Tori but im not her friend and profile private .

Ill go and submit the name we all like to Lanelle and mention about Tori at same time

Janeylou wrote: "Can i just say girls , its Janine not Jane 😄😄😄, thought it best to say now rather than later .
Tbh im called alsorts JJ from some workmates , Jen from others , as long as its not Jan ( which for so..."

So sorry, Janine. I apologize too for using the wrong name.

It's fine .

Have submitted a name

I've sent a message to Tori. Hopefully she'll check in soon.

Thanks Lanelle 👍

Thanks Lanelle!

Hello, I am checking in. I'm sorry I am just checking this now, we had a rough start to our week.

Tori wrote: "Hello, I am checking in. I'm sorry I am just checking this now, we had a rough start to our week."

Hi Tori!

Well that was a lot of action for the last 10 minutes 😄😄

Hi Tori, glad you here hope you like the name .
Hope things get better in RL

I hope things get better for you too, Tori.

Hi Tori!

So we have step 2 to decide:

Decide who will read for which Supply Card.

I can do any of them. I suppose Spare Parts and Food are the easiest for me, but really any of them works.

I did see in the QA that we can only read 4 of the 5. We have to leave one out.

I vote we decide by seeing which tasks we can complete easiest.

I would be happy to read for Clothing!

Is this game based on a show and if so, would it make a difference which one we left out

Janeylou wrote: "Is this game based on a show and if so, would it make a difference which one we left out"

I do not watch TV much outside of sports and news; I have no idea. Looks like it's a video game

I think our calamity will be based on which task we skip. -- yes, I confirmed that , found that answer in the QA

Does anyone want to volunteer to do the completion posts? I don't mind doing it. However, if someone else wants the job, that's fine with me.

So..as im reading it after rlthe first week we have to read 1 bk for 70 miles each week after ( wk 4 & 7 ..any book ) .
Is that all we need to do or are there other tasks as well

It’s based on a computer game that I used to play back in the day.

We will probably need to do other tasks as well since that was how the computer game is.

Nora wrote: "It’s based on a computer game that I used to play back in the day."

An expert ..great 😄😄

Whats do we think is best to skip then or do we just got qith what weve got this week.

I read several books a week so could probably do any of them

I love the name :) I can read for Spare Parts

Actually, we might want to skip Clothes. I seem to remember things that will require all of the other Supplies.

I can read for Medicine.

Ive got a pirate book coming that works for sea ..and its also got a double letter in title , so take your pick Susan

Susan A wrote: "Does anyone want to volunteer to do the completion posts? I don't mind doing it. However, if someone else wants the job, that's fine with me."

Im easy going also , can play it by ear whos around at the time

I'll do double letter/food

This is Week 1 of your journey West to Oregon. Each team member will read for a Supply Card. You need to decide which Supply Cards you want to begin your journey with, and who will read for which Card.

Supply Cards
Medicine - read a book with "doctor" found in the text
Spare Parts - read a book that is in a series, but is NOT the first
Clothes - read a book with one fully clothed person on the cover
Clean Water - read a book that is set along a lake, sea, or ocean (50% of the time)
Food - read a book with double letters in a word in the title.

Calamities
Broken Arm (needs Medicine card)
Snake Bite (needs Medicine card)
Starvation (needs Food card)
Extreme Cold (needs Clothes card)
Bad Water (needs Clean Water card)
Broken Wheel (needs Spare Parts card)


Rules
You can't begin reading your book until Monday morning, 12:01 a.m. your time.
You must finish and report your book by Sunday night 11:59 p.m. your time.
Books must be 140 pages or more.
Audio books must be at least 3 hours long.
Graphic Novels must be at least 200 pages.

I think I will read for Clothing. I also think that I can read for Medicine.

Calamities
Broken Arm (needs Medicine card)
Snake Bite (needs Medicine card)

Does thus mean we need 2 medicine cards or will 1 card cover the 2 calamities

Janeylou wrote: "Calamities
Broken Arm (needs Medicine card)
Snake Bite (needs Medicine card)

Does thus mean we need 2 medicine cards or will 1 card cover the 2 calamities"

I think that we should ask Lanelle. I’m confused as well.

I just asked Lanelle in the Q and A if we need to read two different Medicine books.

Hi! Just heard back from Lanelle that two different people need to read two different Medicine books.

Ive asked as well as think we just read 4 books and hope we pick the 4 calamities we may get in following weeks ..so pot luck
Will see what she says

Janeylou
....So we only read for 4 calamitie cards and hope that we pick the 4 correct ones for following weeks calamities

Lanelle
....Correct. If you get a Calamity that you don't have a Supply Card, no worries. I have provided several ways for your team to deal with it. You'll see when you get Week 2's instructions

Great teamwork! We will see how it goes.

Good to know!

Ok, so we just need to let each other know what we resding for.
ill stick to Clean Water

I’ll do the food task

Thanks for getting the answers