My family decided to move to the northwest territory, but I don’t really won’t to move I like my house.I told my mom that and she said that i don’t have an opinion,which made me really angry. Then saw a paper on my dads work desk and it said that there is free land in the west and it said there was gold.The next day i woke up early to start packing. My parents were already loading up the conestoga waggon.We were in the waggon on our way by 3:00pm. now it is 10p.m.. my mom said it was going to be a lot longer than a couple of days. I started to have second thoughts about going west because it was so bumpy and cold at night and really hot during the daytime.I have a little sister and she’s 4 she did not like the ride at all. 2 months later the horses looked tired, our waggon train wheels looked wore out by all the rocks and dust. Over 4,000 people died on my waggon train we were on the oregon trail. I was tired of being in this waggon it has been 6 months. “by this time tomorrow” my dad said “we will be in our new home and new life”. I was happy the ride was almost over.Im excited to move on a farm and have a garden,animals,and a bunch of land. I can’t wait to find gold. We finally made it to California it like boomtown there is a lot of cowboys here. My mom said “we are living on homestead land”, Which means the government is letting us live on this land for free if we keep it healthy.