One of our Christmas presents to ourselves was a horseback ride in the desert outside of Terlingua. We headed out on a beautiful, sunny afternoon past an old Cinnabar Mine site, through a wild looking canyon and into a lonely part of the desert.
This was Jasper's first horse ride and our third (the first two were
VERY wild experiences in Colorado!) Our horses were well trained, but
they still needed us to tell them what to do...and what NOT to do.
Jasper caught on quickly and was able to pull the reins and issue a well
placed heel. Susanna's horse started acting up halfway through (it had
lulled her into complacency!) and eventually she decided to just let it
stop to eat whenever it wanted, rather than get her shoulder yanked out
of its socket trying to pull the 200 pound head up with the reins.
The whole ride was great fun, but we were glad we hadn't signed up for a day-long tour...we wouldn't have been able to walk the next day for all our soreness!
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