OT - this is one long horse ride.

[BenT]

Check out the map on how far this guy is planning on riding his horse. Local paper just had a write up on him as he passed through . He has emphysema and traveling America on most of the routes he drove while truck driving. http://www.liferide-wayne.com/

[DBW]

Interesting. I'm surprised that he isn't planning on going through Oklahoma City where Feed the Children is headquartered. They are a good charity and even have a Canadian division based in Guelph, Ontario where they provide items to First Nation folks.

I've got slightly less than a million miles under my belt. Doubtful that I'll ever mount a broomtail and ride around seeing the country at a slower pace.

[RIHMFIRE]

I have always dreamed about doing that very same thing...
In my younger years I had planned to join a group
that rode their horses from Dallas to Miles City
Montana..
I would jump at that chance now...
I hope he does it!

[20cows]

I remember a feller tryin' this about 15 years ago or so. He got about halfway through the country and was arrested around Houston, I think, for cruelty to animals. He was just bar-ditch grass feeding his mount and stayed on the move too much for the horse to keep up nutritionally.

There's more to it than just puttin' on the saddle and hittin' the trail. In the old days, you could count on facilities and feed everywhere. Not now, though. Travel was slow not just because of the speed of a horse. It took a lot of time to allow for resting the animal.

[ndcowboy]

There's more to it than just puttin' on the saddle and hittin' the trail. In the old days, you could count on facilities and feed everywhere. Not now, though. Travel was slow not just because of the speed of a horse. It took a lot of time to allow for resting the animal.

You've got that right. That's also why a lot of the old timers who used horses for farming took a couple hour break every afternoon. It wasn't that the men were tired, it was that the horses needed a rest.