We’re heading out, hitting the road, high tailing it across the West. Slowly. Me and three horses. From a ranch in northern California. To, well, we’ll see. I don’t know how far we’ll get. I don’t know how long we’ll be. But sometime soon, we’re heading out. Out there, on an inward journey. An adventure Read more

Maybe it’s a pilgrimage, a spiritual quest, or an inner journey, out there. Maybe it’s a little crazy. The greatest adventures often are. Maybe it’s a midlife thing. Maybe it will be all of those. Or none. Maybe it will just be a long quiet ride. And maybe that will be enough. ~ Rather than Read more

When I first started planning this trip in earnest, I had no specific destination in mind. I was just going to go. Time with my horses, in the saddle, on the road, in this big wide beautiful world. How hard can it be, I wondered, riding from somewhere in California to somewhere in Colorado? Hard. Read more

A friend once told me: In the absence of communications, hairy monsters grow. We all know how that happens. And really, no one likes hairy monsters. So we try to communicate, with others, and with ourselves, in hopes of preventing those monsters from getting out of control. Well, I’ll tell you what. Right now. Those Read more

Hairy Monsters? That was a few days ago. Today is something new. New fears. Old ones springing back to life. All in all, a lot. The fear of finding my way. Finding ample food and water for the horses each day. The fear of figuring out everything we’ll need for months on end, knowing I Read more

I read once that if you’re planning on heading out on a long ride, you should chose your horses wisely. They should be good size, not too big, step out well, have a good pace, be calm of character and broke to, well, to everything, because basically that’s what you’ll encounter if you’re out there Read more