Travel EQUESTRIAN ADVENTURE Nebraska fine for riding WHEN I was 18 1] was just as horse-crazy as most girls, but luckier. rode every day — bareback, to bother with saddles. grew up. Riding just didn't seem impor- tant any more — the job and the housework took priority. | can on- ly remember riding once since then and thar was an old hack ina riding ring, just te prove to my kids that [ had the wuts. by Barbara McCreadie If you want the laugh of the week, picture me riding off into the sunset across the Nebraska sandhills. Not at age 18 — but two weeks ago. And, again I was doing it just to prove | had the guts. Seriously, | was secured witless. You — see, everyone else had done it and not one of them had ever been on a horse in their lives. And, because I had admitted to riding as a kid 1 ( WATERFRONT | had one of my own. mostly, Then, For two glorious summers | since we were too lazy I did what most of us do — vot a horse that our host deseribed as spunky’ When PE stood beside the beast he appeared just slightly smaller than your average elephant and without aleg-up Vd still be standing there. Once astride, *‘Sundancer™* decided it was time to be moving and he nipped the backside of a patient beast whom my friend Anne was geting to know. Since Anne was rightly nervous about the whole thing, | shoved my feet firmly in the stirrups, clicked twice with my tongue and we moved out of the pasture. Sundancer assumed | had im- mediate business in the next coun- try and broke into a brisk trot. That wouldn't have been half bad except that my feet kept sliding in the stirrups — meaning that my backside got quite u walloping. Sundancer gave me a funny look but cooperated when I reined him in. By this time we were quite a distance from the rest of the crowd. | explained to him in words he should have been able to understand that if he broke my neck, I'd do the same for him. In fact, 1 made a reference to his mother that sobered him and he munched quietly on the alfalfa un- til the rest of the group straggled up. They could straggle — they didn't have Sunny-Boy. He was so glad to see his mates that he went into his vaudeville routine — crow hopping, head tossing and giggling. | had two op- tions -— hang onto the saddle horn and scream for help or dig in with my knees, plant the feet and half VACATION HOME e Two bedrooms ° Fireplace ¢ Fully equipped kitchen ¢ Spectacular view e Sate sandy beach next to Rathtrevor Prov. Park * $85.00 & up per night « As seen on CHEK TV. For reservations call (604) 248-3424 strangle the Son-of-a-egun. Tt must have been quite a sight but fo ref- used to touch that saddle hora and the only noise Poinade was a quiet, clenched-teeth aside to the horse. Unquotable. The rest of the brief ride was uneventful. That) horse unders- tands dock language -- or else it bored him to death. Anyway, when we parted com- pany, Sunny and me, it was peice: 19 - Sunday, duty 5, ful. Meanwhile, one ef niv trends (not one of the localsy remarked, “Hes, you really do know Sow to ride!’ Could have foaled me. a One of the nicest places ve visited in a fone while is a bed- and-allemeals ranch home in Nebraska. Chris and Pato Vinton open their spacious heme to 1987 - North Shore News horses guests, but with a difference. They don’t try to intermingle various groups — if you book in, you'll be the only guests. Depending on your affinity for each other they can handle up to twelve at one time. 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