Another gorgeous day, and we had decided that this was our last chance to ride to lunch, so we headed out about mid-day straight down Maple Lane, passing the Road Closed sign meant for motorized vehicles, and made a beeline for the restaurant. It was more of a road than a trail, but much less of a road than what we've been riding on the past week, so we were quite happy. Debated whether to take the dogs along with us, and did bring them in the end. They were brilliant the whole way! Even though it was over 10.5 miles total, with a lunch break in between, little Billy managed to keep up and everyone enjoyed themselves tremendously! When we arrived, we found several other horses tied on the property, so we tied the horses to a couple of posts at the back of the property, and the dogs as well, and went in. We chatted with both the help and the other three riders that were there, and enjoyed a nice lunch before heading back to camp. The only thing about being on Sugar Hill is that it's always a long climb to get back home, and this route had several long slogs, but we had been gradually working up to this long ride all week, and it went without a hitch. Had a wonderfully relaxing evening, as most of the campers had left by the time we got back, so it was much quieter than it has been, to be expected, of course. Chatted again with the folks we met at lunch for a while, then settled in for the evening.
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