Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018 – First Ride For Me on the Road with Flash

This very busy campground had lots of people tacking up and riding out early, as the weather is scheduled to turn bad tomorrow afternoon, but today is absolutely gorgeous! It didn't take me long to get Flash saddled up either, having fruit for breakfast before hitting the trail. Flash did brilliantly! Despite being in a totally new environment, he behaved himself very well, even staying on a relaxed rein for quite a ways at the beginning. Once we were warmed up, though, we started ticking it up a bit, and then he started to get excited again, as seems to be his style. We did a gentle gait, and a faster gait for quite a while, until we finally did a lovely nice long canter, which is so smooth, it's just wonderful! We spent about two hours on the trail, which ended up being over 9 miles on this speed demon! Got back to camp in plenty of time, chatted for a while with our neighbors Joanne and Mike, who live only 20 minutes away and so come here regularly (and who bought a copy my book :-), before going in and making a nice brunch for Hubby before we started his dialysis session. A fabulous way to start our latest road trip!

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