Friday, December 29, 2017

Lady Long Rider

When old Kadizzle gets bored he takes a short ride on his one cylinder steed.  The trip often starts by visiting the horse camp down below our encampment.  Today as Kadizzle rode through he met Bernice.  Bernice did an 8,000 mile ride across the country last year and is working on another this year. Bernice lives out of a tent and packs her stuff on two horses.  Right away Kadizzle knew Mrs. Kadizzle would have to cackle Bernice.  So the cackling started.
So Kadizzle hauled the Mrs. down to the horse camp.  Bernice's friend another adventure lady shared stories with us.  If you want the full story you can go to Bernice's facebook page or check out her story at www.endofthetrail.com.  Strangely Bernice was formerly a classical ballet instructor.  Ironically she knew the woman that taught our children ballet in Hazen.  Little did we know the woman who taught our kids was a very well know dancer.  Bernice will soon be riding and camping alone on the Mexican border.  All the brave gun totting hombres should take a lesson from this woman. 

Strangely some of the most famous long distance riders by horse come through our horse camp.  The people who made the movie Unbroken stopped at the horse camp.  That was the guys who rode  from Mexico to Canada.  

Talking to Bernice it was interesting to note that the horse culture is like the RV culture.  Some well to do horse people stop and fiddle with their horses, combing and pruning and then go for a 45 minute ride.  Returning to their elaborate horse trailer and motor home that was the day.  You see this with the RV crowd.  Old willy pulls up in his half million dollar mother home and immediately gets out and starts to polish.  On the other end of the spectrum you meet hikers with nothing buy what they can carry on their back.  In Bernice,s case she has nothing but what she can carry on two horses.  Apparently the horses only food is what they can forage.  The horses of the rich get taken to a McDonalds at the end of the day for straw and hay burgers. 

Well Mrs Kadizzle and Bernice are out riding each with a can of beer, so Kadizzle will just have to live on peanuts till they get back. 


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