Kualoa Ranch – Ahupua’a Hawaiian Land As I drove west along Kahekili Highway, the skyscrapers of Waikiki faded away, and the lush Hawaiian lanscape began to make its presence known. With the Chinaman’s hat as a landmark to my right, I turned left into Kualoa Ranch for my horseback riding vacation. The Kualoa Ranch land is […]
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North Texas Hill Country I could feel John Wayne settle in my bones as I rode horseback along side the Brazos River at the Wildcatter Ranch outside of Graham, Texas. My mount, Wildfire, an 11 year old quarter horse, was an old hand at horseback riding vacations in North Texas Hill Country. Wildcatter Ranch
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Carousel Horseback Riding Vacation While I’ve always preferred riding live horses to carousel horses, not everyone can afford or wants to go on a horseback riding vacation. Perhaps you have little children who love horses, yet simply aren’t ready for a horseback riding vacation. Maybe merry-go-round horses fit your horseback riding vacation budget better than
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As we ride toward the Ventura River into the Los Padres National Forest, our guide spots a red tail hawk scanning its surroundings. Silently, the hawk takes flight as quail scurry in the background. We are on a horseback riding vacation in Ojai, California. My mount for today’s horseback riding vacation is Willing Spirit, a gentle, 18
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Hidden Meadow Ranch guest post by Vera Marie Badertscher On our way to this Arizona horseback riding vacation, we drive through some towns crowded with fast food joints and motels, then through smaller towns where the places to stay tend toward cabins instead of modern motels, then we turn off onto a Forest Service Road
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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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Where did the horses go in Alaska? I was recently in Fairbanks, Alaska to see the World Ice Art Championships and visit the Chena Hot Spring Resort. Obviously, I was there in the winter, so no chance for a horseback riding vacation in Alaska. While I wasn’t able to go on a horseback riding holiday,
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Take Your Horse on a Winter Luxury Adventure How often do you think about taking your horse along on a snowy horseback riding vacation? Somehow, sitting by the fire in a luxury cabin, after finishing a gourmet meal, seems more like an experience for the ski slopes than a winter ranch visit. At
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It was a cold December morning in Marin County as I pulled on my long johns, jeans and winter riding boots for a day of horseback riding. Not ideal horseback riding conditions, to be sure, but a day of riding is better than no riding at all. I was on assignment for Diablo magazine to
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