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FW: St. Joseph, Missouri!(from Karen)





> -----Original Message-----
> From: imgoneriding@earthlink.net [mailto:imgoneriding@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:30 PM
> To: ridecamp
> Subject: St. Joseph, Missouri!
>
>
> Finally!  Yippeeeeee, we made it, complete with sound horses and
> all!  Woohoooo.   Today is Saturday, June 2, 2001.  In three more days we
> finally get to start the 2001 XP.
>
> We are camped in a really beautiful spot right on the Missouri
> River right
> in St. Joseph.  Contrary Lake is on the other side, and we are
> right in the
> middle. There are big trees and we are in a lush green field.
>
> This morning we started out with walking the horses, then eating
> breakfast
> and getting situated a bit more then tacked up and went for a ride on the
> levy.  We can ride for miles from here, and the weather is absolutely
> gorgeous!  The horses only problem is that there is so much green grass
> it's hard to keep them both going (we were ponying extra horses)......I
> think we are all happy to be thru with the long days of travel to
> get here.
>
> We arrived Friday night and unloaded in the middle of a
> thunderstorm.  There were tornado warnings in two counties and 70 mph
> winds.  So right off the bat the horses got to try out their new rain
> gear--once it stopped raining they got switched into bug suits.  Got them
> fly masked, fly sprayed, fly sheeted, fly collared and they still were
> stomping and swishing around.  It's much better today, the sun
> has been out
> all day and things are drying up.
>
> Later in the day I tried connecting the computer to the internet and was
> going to send some photos.  What fun that turned out to be! <NOT>  I'm so
> totally naive that I just figured I'd go and plug the phone line in and
> tell it to connect to the 800 #, right? Well.......it doesn't
> work that way
> if the phone line has two lines on it!  I finally figured that out, and
> then got wise and used the phone plug from the guys computer and
> then that
> worked.  The only problem is that my 800# was set up for the cell phone
> connection at 9600 baud so since my brain had fried I sent some
> emails that
> had been saved up and decided to change all my settings and come back
> later.  Tomorrow.......
>
> Then we went into town and did some shopping, went to the Pony Express
> (Patee House) Museum, ate in a real restaurant <G>, and then went and
> bought more stuff that we don't have room for!  Tomorrow we are
> supposed to
> be at Old McDonald's Farm at 8:00 a.m. for a GPS lesson.  This probably
> won't get sent until well after that.  We'll get to see everybody else
> tomorrow.
>
> Till later,
>
> Happy XP Trails,
>
> Karen
> http://www.endurohorse.com
>
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