"On Base", Day 26, Thursday, June 24,1976, Lakehurst Navy Base, Lakehurst, NJ.....24mi

Unknown to us this would be G's last day pulling the wagon

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Journal Entry:  Thursday, June 24, 1976,  Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst,NJ....24mi

       Left at 7 am.  It was a very hot day.  I rode Breezy & Lee drove Thunder & G.  They went very well- for a while.  I was asked to ride out in front with Frank ( Roger Morse and some of the other wagons were not on the road today). As we were coming up to an orchard we could see that there was spraying going on. Frank sent me ahead to go into the field to ask them to stop spraying until we went by. They did stop spraying but there was still a cloud of spray that went over the first few wagons. Later we noticed that G's muzzle was getting bright pink, we thought she might be having a reaction to the spray.

Thunder,G and Lee

 Later Dawn & Curt and Tom K joined us, Leah was already in the wagon. Ranny was our outrider today and most days. Pat did not ride again today. Pat is really feeling the heat and is trucking most days.

Ranny Tuchon,RI Outrider

  In Jackson they had a small ceremony at the school & presented Curt with a Bicentennial Baby Birth Certificate.  

Dawn, Ranny & Curt accepting Bicentennial Birth Certificate

We got in about 5pm and wanted to go to Seaside Heights but we thought G had a fever and her nose was still very pink, so we asked to have the vet look at her .  We waited for the vet to come. He diagnosed her with pneumonia and said she will have to be out of commission for about 5 days and she will need to be treated with Penicillin and be  trucked. This will leave us with only two horses now.

This is Breezy, the vet came and checked all the horses

We are camped at Lakehurst Naval Base, which is where the Hindenburg was housed and crashed. We had a tour of the hangar and got to go up on the roof to take pictures.

View from the roof of Hangar One

 

Wagon Train Circle from the roof

           

Stan Bashura's CT Bicentennial Wagon's Journal for Thursday, June 24th, 1976       Well, we woke this morning to having more "paint"ed horses in our camp than the day before. During the night, someone managed to "paint" some of the saddle horses with various colors of food dye. We had red, blue, yellow and an assortment of other colors! Fortunately it was food dye and eventually washed off. None of the team horses got painted. Also, the flags were stolen out of the Vermont Bicentennial Wagon during the night. We broke camp at 7:15 am, headed for Lakehurst Naval Station some 25 miles away. It's hot and humid again. About noon time the many horses pulling the Wagons stopped sweating, (this is not a good thing), so took a break to rest and water the horses. We got under way again in about an hour, but the horses were very spooky today again. My two (Jack and Colonel) were very jittery and not pulling well. It is very hot and humid and word going around the Wagon Train was that the R.I. Wagon's Team spare horse "G" was possibly sick and our Wagon Master, Roger Morse's team horse dropped from exhaustion so he was not with us. So that worried all of us even more. We got into camp at the Lakehurst Naval Station at 5 pm.