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I would like to thank my patron saint, Our Lady of Perpetual LD, for 
her blessings at the Wyoming Wild Horse Challenge last weekend.

It's always wonderful to get out to Wyoming, of course.  The people 
were great, everybody pulling along to get everyone through safely. 
Ride secretary Marlynn keeping us amused, ride organizers and all 
having worked their butts off to mark the trail and have ample water 
in a parched land.  Thank you for all those efforts.

Since I live in the very urbanized SF peninsula, it was quite a treat 
to ride in truly wide open spaces.  Since we started at the end of 
the pack both days, this was like riding all alone through wonderful 
vistas and past amazing rock formations (with ribbons, of course). 
Just a few antelope and jack rabbits for company.  A special treat 
for our driver while he was volunteering was that he found some 
absolutely beautiful arrowheads.  Someone else found what appeared to 
be an old musket ball.  That and the stallion piles and the 
footprints of the resident mustangs (they didn't make an appearance 
for us this year) gave us some feeling for the sense of the place.

I feel fortunate to have experienced this ride; both the horses and I 
were happy at the finish, glad for our respective cooling rinses and 
yummies to eat.  And I was able to get both horses a massage, thanks 
to the presence of an equine massage therapist, who was there doing 
her first LD ride.  I hope as good a time was had by all.

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