Donner Memorial

Tuesday the volunteers took a field trip to the Donner Memorial which is near Truckee.  We viewed the film, strolled around the museum, we listened to a volunteer guide.  He retold the story of the problems that the  Donner party encountered and the mistakes that they made that cost many of them their lives.
   As the group stood out in the rain listening to this fascinating story, in sight of a Chevron gas station and the hum of I - 80 in our ears,  it was hard to imagine that these folks were stranded, starving, and dying at

this exact spot 160 years ago,