You Have Chosen to Ford the River
No, the photo at left isn’t a scene from Big Love.
It’s actually a shot of two college students in Utah who serve as tour guides for This Is The Place Heritage Park, a large woodland sanctuary in Salt Lake City that the New York Times compares to a pioneer Colonial Williamsburg.
But anyone born between 1978 - 1998 knows better.
Really, this is the living, breathing version of our favorite video game, Oregon Trail.
You can throw tomohawks at this place.
You can trade stuff at the local general store.
But sadly, you can’t hunt buffalo, deer, and squirrels - the only reason most of us played that game in the first place…
