They passed through my town a couple days ago.

With only two riding horses along for company, two modern-day adventurers are on their way west from Independence, Missouri, along the original Oregon Trail to the coast.

Oliver McCloskey, an amateur historian from Cedar City, Utah, and his partner, Kelsey Wright from southern Indiana, left Missouri on June 23 and plan to arrive in Oregon City in early November.

The actual Oregon Trail was about 1,900 miles, but when McCloskey and Wright arrive in Oregon, they will have covered some 2,200 to 2,300 miles.

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Couple Retracing the Oregon Trail (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)