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Meeting Captain Bonneville
Hunter’s small frame has meant off-road rides have been less enjoyable than he expected. On rough ground, he’s a pebble in a paint mixer. But he’s put on some weight the last year and I think we should try again. The Oregon Trail passed just a few blocks from our home. Today Hunter and I are going to follow that ancestral line east back along the Boise River and out of town. “Hang on tight,” I warn as we turn off pavement to face a rocky climb. It will be wagon trail the rest of the way. “Shall we stop there and have a rest?” I ask in jest, turning my head in the direction of an abandoned pull-out bed along the trail, less than a mile on. “No,” he protests. He’s been wary of whimsy in recent years. It may be the natural course of his personality but I worry that pressure to conform—counseling, medication, check-lists—is robbing him of something.
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