Re: RC: Starting from scratch

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

<<This is Marianne's response to a note I wrote her, suggesting her group 
consider paying lodging and offering some riding to one of our more 
experienced ride managers as a way of getting that assistance she was 
seeking.   I mentioned Barbara McCrary as an example of someone w/extensive 
experience  (oops, hope I'm not in hot water w/you, Barbara!  :-)    Anyhow, 
surely some one of you savvy ride managers must be tempted to visit exotic 
lands!>>

This is not impossible!  Lud and I went to Kauai (Hawaiian Islands, for some 
who might not know) several years ago to assist a group of fledgling 
endurance riders in setting up their first ride.  We actually didn't do much 
of anything to help them as they seem to have had everything under control 
before we got there.  Maybe they just needed moral support.  Anyway, they 
provided horses for us and we rode their 25 mile ride.  They offered a 50, 
but no one entered.  They wanted to test the waters on the shorter distance 
first, I think.  We met nice people; it was a lovely ride and we had a lot of 
fun and good memories to last a lifetime.  I probably could not have 
persuaded Lud to go the Kauai as a vacation only, but give him a REASON and 
we're off.....
I DARE you to invite us to Egypt!!  But be sure to contact us well in 
advance.  Our "retirement" years (what retirement?) are so full that we have 
to schedule ahead these days.  We're off on a study tour of China this summer.

Barbara