Join Us On The Journey

Many people have gone on long trips by horse over the ages. Some of these people wrote accounts of their trips. For a comprehensive list of old horse travel journals please follow this link to the long riders guild. https://thelongridersguild.com/Books/books-list1.htm...

Maya Pedal, the Guatemalan builders of bicycle machines, thank you. I as well. We thank you, one of the thousands of people who have heard about them and our solo horse ride fundraiser. You, the reader. You, the trip host. You, the sponsor. You, the donor. You, the...

I have 3 saddles for sale. I need them sold to help me continue my trip and fundraiser. Make me an offer or share with your friends. THANKS!!! English 16” medium-wide tree. $350. Excellent condition. Stubben siegfried replica Japanese made. Aussie 17” medium tree....

We are taking a few days off near Austin and getting ready for our transition into Mexico. We started planning this trip almost 4 years ago. At first I was going to take my Tacoma down to Guatemala, but then after reflection decided it would be better to have horses...

We have just completed ½ a year on the road. We started in Rockingham Ontario, Canada 6 months ago are now in Caldwell Texas, USA. We have travelled 2242 miles averaging 12 miles per day including rest days. About 20 miles per day on the road. What a weird wonderful...

Continued from part 1: https://5000milesofhope.org/hoof-care-and-pr…easyboots-part-1/ Why the grips? My friend told me they lasted longer than the epics. They have a thicker sole, more tread, and the rollover area is less rounded. Why the edges? They were free. Their...

Since my last post on our hoof boots used during our ride, we have covered a lot of miles. Our hoof boot needs are unique to our trip. We are riding a 5000 mile unassisted solo horse ríde. We ride 15-30 miles a day, 20 days a month, in areas I've ever never been...

Continued from part 1 and 2 https://5000milesofhope.org/hoof-care-and-pr…easyboots-part-2/ Thoughts on the grips and edges After riding 3 week on the grips on pavement dirt and gravel, I would say they are better on the last two surfaces, but not on pavement. I got...

I first realized I would need to supplement feeding in October, about a month into the ride. I researched the best concentrates and ended up buying msm, mag oxide and curcumin. This lasted 3 months. I wasn't sure how well it was working, so I the decided to get...

I don't know how many of you ride your horses barefoot. Since I got horses almost 4 years ago, mine have always been unshod. I invested in hoof boots to use occasionally but for the most part, I rode both of them barefoot. As the mileage went up in training pre trip...

We are proud to announce our new trip sponsors. Our sponsors have products that help us with the stresses of travelling 15-30 miles a day by horse, day in day out. Easyboots by Easycare Hoof Armor Hoof Protection Mad Barn Custom Horse Supplements Eli...

We are 6 months and 2000 miles into our 5000 mile solo horse ride. The Maya Pedal Horse Ride Fundraiser on Gofundme has raised $3000 of our $20000 goal. Thank you for your donations! We continue south and should be entering Mexico by mid April....

We left Alvaton on December 26th and quickly entered the cold. We had just taken a week off after blazing thru Kentucky. We were waiting for packages and a sick Roxy to get better. The respiratory infection was addressed quickly and effectively with the excellent help...

So it's been 7 months since I wrote "Getting Roxy Tired". I wrote that post at the beginning of her transformation from wild bush beast into fine road horse. As the summer went on I tried out new saddles and rode her lots, but, rather than fighting her urge to gallop...

We started off our Kentucky adventures at the very east part of the Bluegrass State in Louisa. I had met an endurance rider online a few months previous. Amy Wallace Whelan had offered to have me at her place. You can check out Wallace Hill Farm on FB. As we were...

Eli Miller is a saddle maker and leather worker based out of Kentucky. He started building saddles about 40 years ago, mostly western, when he lived in western New York. After moving to Kentucky, he started repairing a lot of old Buena Vista saddles. They are an old...

This is the story of the modifications done for my solo horse ride. I was humbly gifted a 1st Gen Orthoflex to use as a replacement for the Big Horn Endurance 120 saddle I used on the 1st 1000 miles of my solo horse ride from Canada to Guatemala. I had to do a few...

We entered West Virginia on Nov 9, via the rail trail from Point Marion. Before that, we got stopped in the middle of nowhere by some strange looking people in a crappy looking old T-bird. The scary looking man in the passenger seat opened his door while it was still...