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Re: [RC] Teeny Weeny Budget - Rides 2 FarYou can ride in tights from Wal-Mart (in the ladies undergarment / sports underwear section ) Minor seam, but for your first LD, would work fine. I've done 100's in Hanes $10 tights. Just broke down and started buying riding tights when I started wearing out several Hane's a year and realized the real ones were cheaper in my situation. The seam never bothered me, ever. Not even a little. :-) As long as I've already broken down and posted again...you don't *have* to tie to the trailer. If you own 30 feet of rope, tie it between two trees for an overhead line. An old snaffle bit works fine for the ring, a couple of knots, or a 6" stick duct taped to the rope 6' or so from each tree will keep them from getting at the bark. If you don't have a camper top, pack your stuff in garbage bags in back of the truck. Don't buy expensive horse blankets, just a wool blanket from the army store. If it rains you can lay a poncho on top. (I've tried shower curtains, they're too crackly) That stand that's holding your mom's bird feeder up is a perfect lantern stand. Peanut butter & Jelly sandwiches taste GOOD at a ride. You can live on them till the ride meal. If you'll travel with someone faster than you (or slower) you can use *their* saddle rack at the vet checks. Make your own electrolytes. 2 parts salt. 2 parts lite salt. 1 pt. ground up Tums. 1 dose =1 35mm film cannister. Mentally justify all expenses. Take the entry fee. Subtract what a shirt would cost. Subtract what the meal would cost. Subtract what 2 days camping at a campground would cost. If you're *really* poor like I was, subtract the electricity you saved when you cut the heat off when you left home...and the unused water, what this amount of exercise would have cost you at a gym...etc. What's *left* is the entry fee. :-) Feels better doesn't it? Give me long enough to justify it and I can convince myself I *make* money by leaving. Angie ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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