One in the saddle, one on the ground
Adventures, camping, road trips, ride, anything other than boring home chores & cubicle life!
Let’s turn our pens towards the annual signs of autumn: The ponies start getting their soft winter fuzzies on, the sun ditches us before 8pm, you have to return to keeping an extra layer in the truck, and…the AERC page starts to get rambunctious again. All ride season long, most folks are busy clearing trails, […]
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I’m writing this up after a full day of work while Tom whips up hand made chicken alfredo, and fighting through the inevitable gut gurgling aftereffects of any good trip. I’m well and truly bitten by the Tevis bug, but before I dive into our summary I wanted to give a shoutout to the VIP […]
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I’m typing this up and enjoying being clean for the first time in four days. Showers are so underrated until you give them up for a bit then go on some sweaty, dusty, bug bitten adventures! It’s the Friday before Tevis and we have a packed day ahead, so I’ll get a few words down […]
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Update since I typed this up: I’m posting this from the Point S in Klamath Falls, as my front driver side wheel was making an absolutely awful, metal on metal sound when we were driving out of camp. It disappeared once we made it over 30mph and was quite all the way into town, but […]
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Tis the soggiest time of year, when I have ample time to ride…and the winds are gusting and the sky is dumping and the heated blankets sing a siren’s song. I’m reading plenty of books, selling off spare tack, and pondering the upcoming year. Several of my friends like to choose words for the year, […]
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This week it’s been four years since I went to see Tarma, handed over a decent sized check and hauled her home to my friend’s place and started inflicting my love and efforts and dreams upon her. While I was trying to sum up where we’re at for my dressage trainer at our last lesson, […]
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I was finally able to cross a bucket list ride off a few weeks ago in epic style with a friend I don’t get to hang out with much. As I pointed out to her while we stuffed ribs in our faces in her camper after a gorgeous 22 mile ride, it’s not like there’s […]
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Whew, what a week! I feel I got the mild version of a trip to the AERC National Championships, not that it’s a bad thing. A heck of a lot happened, but folks are healing and horses look fantastic from all accounts, so it was a successful trip for many including us. Packing for this […]
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The transition back to the home front after an endurance ride is often the bumpiest part, life narrows to the essentials at ride camp and opens back up to the pressing needs of every day life once the rig is parked in the driveway again. The lure of a long, hot shower and the comfortable […]
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Well, for a ride that wasn’t even on my radar until about mid-April, our first expedition to Still Prineville definitely qualified as endurance! I’m super happy with where Tarma and I are at, in how well we’re flowing together. We’re at the spot where I can decide two weeks before a ride to enter, and […]
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On the loose 