Category: On the loose

Adventures, camping, road trips, ride, anything other than boring home chores & cubicle life!

A Shoeless Turtle: Nevada Derby Ride Report

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Let us set a peaceful albeit dusty scene: I’m typing this up on my laptop in my cozy trailer bed, Bernard passed out next to me, and the reassuring sounds of Tarma slurping up her wet alfalfa pellets coming through the screen door, as it’s not yet cold enough to have to close it. I […]

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Endurance: Where are the ribbons?

.Reading time 20 minutes.

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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The road to Tevis: Actual Tevis!

.Reading time 20 minutes.

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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The road to Tevis, Part 2

.Reading time 9 minutes.

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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The road to Tevis

.Reading time 8 minutes.

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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Community

.Reading time 14 minutes.

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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Four Years Strong

.Reading time 10 minutes.

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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