Over the Mountains: Fording the Olt River

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We had a nice bridge to cross the Olt, but the ancestors had a much more difficult time. *Quote:* Brother Joseph Kuhr and others made every effort to find a place where we could cross. They discovered a village upstream where a wagon could ford the Olt when the water was low. During the three days we had waited, the water had fallen until it was very low, and we could risk driving through. The brothers arranged to pay a wagoner from the village to take us over. He came with his wagon harnessed to two yoke of oxen, and we loaded the most necessary things on to it. Another man brought a punt to ferry the people over. On October 7 we set out just as darkness was falling and our two wagons safely forded the Olt. The people were ferried across in the punt. When the whole group was on the other side, we praised and thanked God and went forward on our journey in his name.