Today we rode 24 miles through a gorgeous ranch. We started off by going through a small city called Guernsey or as my mom says “a one horse town”, that had a military base somewhere in it. We rode down all the main roads and up along the side of the highway to get to the ranch that had the pioneer trails on it. When we got to the ranch we took a dirt road for some miles then we got onto a small wagon road that the water van couldn’t come on. We road through beautiful valleys where cattle and horses stayed and went through some rough terrain for the wagons and up through the mountains. We didn’t always stay on the trail and sometimes took detours. Near the end I was walking Maggie over a little hill in front of the wagons when I heard a LOUD rattling about 3 feet in front of Mags and I. I screamed VERY loud. Both Mags and I jumped and I looked down seeing a rattle snake getting all coiled up to strike at us. I kicked Mags and both of us were out of there before my new horse would get bit by that sucker. I have never seen a rattler before. Besides the snake incident it was a fabulous site and a fun ride! We saw many antelope but unfortunately no elk! I was really hoping to see some! Dad got dehydrated during it and didn’t feel very good so we told him to get in a wagon and he said no. Susie stepped on a cactus and got mad at everyone and Uno likes to be in the front to lead the train. Once again Maggie doesn’t care about much…. But the snake.
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