Getting Roxy Tired | Part 4
Today I’m going to talk about Roxy and her health 2 and a half years after setting off from Canada. I gave Roxy a nickname back then, in the years before I left for Guatemala:
Cocaine…
Preparation and Persistence
September 4, 2017 | Rockingham, Canada. Chris MacLuckie and purebred Morgan mare OTR She Roxs, b.2008.
This was the first day of my first journey by horse. But it was 3 years after dedicating myself completely to learning what I needed to endure a year long ride.
WEEK 21 | Mexico a Caballo
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.” Christopher Morley.
WEEK 21 | Mexico a Caballo. Colón, Queretaro, to El Milagro, Queretaro | 4 days riding, 80 kms.
WEEK 20 | Mexico a Caballo
“Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don’t do.” Paulo Coelho
WEEK 20 | Mexico a Caballo. Huichapan, Hidalgo to Colón, Queretaro | 3 days riding, 65 kms.
WEEK 19 | México a Caballo
“We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.”
Joel Salatin
The Beginning
I bought my first horse in the summer of 2014, for the trip I just finished last September. I bought Roxy a little over 4 years ago to accompany Jingles.
San Martin Jilotepeque Magno Desfile Hipico
I rode with the Cuadra San Martin in the Zaragoza horse parade in October. And as they invited me to their horse parade 3 weeks later, I HAD to say yes.
Arkansas, Louisiana and East Texas
Near the end of January, we started into Arkansas from Mississippi. After crossing the mighty Mississippi via the Greenville Bridge, we went west for a bit.
From Perth to the States
We left perth on Sunday sept the 15.
I stayed at my friend corals house and got to hang out with her and her partner Eric and two children for 3 days.