We just got back from a 2 days horseback riding adventure. Our guide was Cowboy Gavilan. My horse´s name was Miscal, named after the cactus used to make tequila. Libby was riding Colorado and the guide on Tristan. The horses were big, beautiful and strong. The guide gave us absolutely no directions except to hold on. At first, I wasnt sure how to sit or even command Miscal, but after a few hours of passing through stream beds, crossing pastures, chasing cows out of the way, I found my rhythm with that of the horses´. It was so much fun crossing over mountain ridges by horse and when we´d cross a pasture, the horses would canter full speed. It was one of the funnest days of my life. Gavilan said Colorado, the strongest, cost $350 with saddle and all. Then he bought land in the moutain..15 acres for $3,000 and built himself a cozy lodge. I was thinking to myself during the ride throught mnt ridges that I would like to own a ranch with a few horses. I just need a little bit o´money and a damn good hat. Those horses were so excited to be in the mnts.
We got to his lodge 4 hours later and a few of the horses immediately rolled their backs in the grass to dry off the sweat. They ate green grass all night and an occasional treat of passion fruit. The lodge sat on a ridge in the center looking down into 4 other mnt ridges right below the cloud forest.
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