Nate's Excellent Adventure
--> --> GHM recently posted some amusing horsie stories and encouraged the rest of us to do likewise. Since so many of my own embarrassing or funny moments have already been described there, I thought maybe I’d share one of my personal favorites that you probably haven’t heard. It involves my horse Nate while we were training with the British Horse Society in Scotland. As regular readers here may know, our Scotland adventure may not have been all we dreamed it would be, but it did have its moments.... One of my favorites involved trail riding. It’s not a particularly funny or exciting story, but it is just so classically “Nate” that I have to love it. It’s probably my favorite story from that trip. You see, the facility we were at was not just a top equestrian center in the area; it was also an exclusive resort . And many of the hotel’s clients would pay a good deal of money for the privilege of getting on one of the centre’...