When I first started traveling, I had the romantic notion that “real” traveling had to be all about having authentic experiences. I also had a specific idea of what “authentic” meant. It meant eschewing pre-packaged tours. It meant immersing in strange lands where there were less “tourists”, where the local folk spoke a different...
Read MoreColombia! The land of Salsa, Coffee and other stimulants. We’d spent a couple weeks in this gorgeous country doing touristy things. But my itch for riding horses had come back. I found a couple small places to be on horseback for a few hours. In Salento, part of Colombia’s coffee triangle where we did the obligatory coffee tour, we could go on a very tame...
Read MoreVilcabamba! The Valley of Longevity as the International Living magazine called it. Arriving here shaken and stirred from crazy taxi drivers, military truck rides and nearly losing my residency card, I quickly set upon the purpose that we came here for- Caballos! A little bit of research led us to this Australian drunk named Gavin. He used to be a really good horse...
Read MoreMy experience on the farm in Slovenia was relegated to the back of my mind just a few short months after. The thing with traveling is that so many peak experiences keep coming your way that it’s very easy to forget something good that happened, to be replaced with some other experience. In time I was traveling through Peru. After having traveled through it’s...
Read MoreGraceful Canters, Airy Trots, Wisps of mane waving in the wind, Steam lightly blown from nostrils, The sheen of sweat glistening across flexing muscles. These are just some of the pictures that conjure up in my mind every time I think of horses. Those magnificent beasts of the plain. So powerful, and yet so gentle. Horses evoke strong emotions. Freedom. Power. Love....
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