Ring Riding in Middelburg, Zeeland Hooves pound the sand and nostrils flare as the horses run full speed toward the ring – an oh-so-small ring. This is the age old sport of the equestrian ring rider. A traditional sport from long ago still played out today in Middelburg, Zeeland, a province in Holland. Bareback Rider …
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Horseback Riding Vacation on Chincoteague Island, Virginia Walter Farley’s Black Stallion book series and Margueritte Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague series; if you are a horse lover, you probably read these books growing up in your youth. It’s probably a safe bet that you collected Breyer model horses and perhaps hung a horse shoe over your …
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Horseback Riding Vacation along Paulina Creek, La Pine, Oregon We whoop and holler as the ice cold cascade mountain snow melt hits our bodies at the Paulina natural water slide. Our family of four has been riding mountain bikes and hiking the forest service trail to Oregon’s Paulina Creek for many years. How many years have …
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Horseback Riding Vacation – Staycation Hold your horses! Today we are going on a horseback riding staycation vacation. What’s a horseback riding staycation? I was invited to be a guest on the Stable Scoop Radio Show. This 96th episode of Stable Scoop Radio was a twitter marathon. I was one of 10 guests on the …
PONY EXPRESS – No Horseback Riding Vacation Back in the day, we used to have our mail delivered on horseback via the Pony Express. While I wouldn’t call it a horseback riding vacation, the first pony express rider left for St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3, 1860 and arrived ten days later in Sacramento, California on …
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I could smell the ocean before I could hear it or see it. Like a hunting dog sniffing the air to catch a scent, I took a deep breath of the cold, salt air as we rounded the trees and took in the excitement of the moment. My friend, who was old enough to drive, …
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Equestrian Travel as Eco-Tourism The ride is not only an equestrian adventure, it is a fund raiser for SOS Children orphans and a vehicle for highlighting eco-tourism. Sampson has her Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate (TEFL ) and will be teaching kids in SOS children’s villages along the route. That route will be following in the footsteps, …
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Welcome to my brand new site. Horseback riding has been my passion since early childhood. As a professional travel writer and lodging editor, I’d like to share my equestrian discoveries with you. I hope you’ll book mark this site and come back often to find all of your equestrian lodging reviews and wonderful places to go horseback riding.
