I have a confession to make and it’s painful and embarrassing. I used to make fun of those women who wore equestrian riding apparel as a fashion statement. You know who I’m talking about – the pretty girls wearing the tight riding breeches and tall boots. It was obvious that they’d never been horseback riding […]
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My first visit to Door County, Wisconsin & it is the dead of winter. No horse back riding vacation this trip, but I did manage to fit in a sleigh ride, make a new horse friend and find my knight in shining armor. In no particular order, I give you the horses of Door County,
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During my travels I always hope to fit in a horseback riding vacation or at least a horse sighting. Sometimes, this is not always possible, especially when visiting large metropolitan cities. It wasn’t until I walked into the lobby of the extravagant Bellagio Las Vegas that I spotted this fabulous mosaic glass horse. Captured from
This past January, the Budweiser Clydesdales came to town to visit the Fairfield Anheuser-Busch plant. They were in town for a good two weeks where the public were invited to come in and visit. On the weekends the full “Hitch” were shown in person from the moment the Clydesdales got groomed to being attached to
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Budweiser is at it again. They pulled at our heart strings with a Lost Dog television commercial for the 2015 Super Bowl. If you read my 2014 blog post about Puppy Love and Horses, you know that I am a sucker for Labrador retriever puppies and horses – I’ve owned my share of both of
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When I first met Deborah McCormick, PhD, co-author of Horse Sense and the Human Heart (HCI, 1997) and Horses and the Mystical Path (New World Library, 2004), I had no idea what to expect of the “Celtic Warrior Woman” weekend retreat I had signed up for on a whim. I guess you might say I
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What’s the difference between a charro and a cowboy? A charro is a horseman from Mexican, while vaquero is the Mexican term for cowboy. A charro wears clothing unique to this equestrian sport, including boots, riding pants, shirt and sombrero. His saddle has a much larger horn than the traditional Western saddle and he carries
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One of the thrills of foreign travel for me is stepping out of my comfort zone and exploring new places. Ideally, I like horseback riding vacations where I am able to go riding in the country. On a recent river boat cruise to the Christmas Markets of Europe I enjoyed a brief overnight in Vienna,
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What makes a true western town? Is it the cowboys that populate the town, the western-inspired architecture or rodeos that draw folks in? In my youth, our small Northern California town had a hitching post for our horses outside the Taco Bell. While the hitching post is long gone, I thought that was pretty cool.
