Category Archives: Travel

As Kermit the frog once lamented, it’s not easy being green. But it's really not that hard, either. Taken on balance, equestrian facilities are not considered by experts to be...

I’ve always suspected my trip to the UK was possibly leaning more toward a parental pilgrimage than it was embracing my freedom as I explore part of this great world...

Falling in love, I’m told, often happens unexpectedly. I’m here to report that I have unexpectedly fallen in love with the Shetland Islands. It’s hard to pinpoint what turned my...

Glamis Castle is a handsome 14th-century castle in the Angus region of Scotland. A perfect way to spend the day. Early on in this adventure, I made a rule. No...

If the last month has shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change in just a few days.  That’s certainly what the pioneers of the inaugural Gaucho Derby discovered....

In 2005, I took a trip that changed my outlook on everything for the rest of my life. It was set up an as "innocent" semester abroad called Semester At...

I still cannot believe that my trip to Gerti and Philip Kusseler's Wait a Little Horse Safari was so many months ago (like maybe 12 of them). But in all...

Imagine exploring Argentina’s gorgeous mountainsides or the superb grassland vistas around the ancient, pristine Lake Khövsgöl from the back of a Mongolian pony.  The Experiment in International Living offers 32...

Life in France's Camargue region is not for the fragile. Surviving in these vast, salted wetlands where the mighty Rhône meets the sea is a test of endurance and adaptation....

The elephants lumber toward us up the hill. They come ever so slowly, swinging their heads from side to side, their ears flapping occasionally at flies. Behind them, their mahouts...

Earlier this week, while you were sleeping, 43 of the world’s most athletic horses competing in the Longines Masters of Los Angeles, landed at LAX on an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing...

After jostling for the leading position for over 620 miles, three riders agreed to cross the finish line of the Mongol Derby together, holding hands. Canadian Heidi Telstad, Australian William...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9hXEBxJA8c This week, half a world away on a primitive slice of Mongolian Steppe, 41 ambitious, adventure-starved equestrians are saddling up and heading out for a week of torture on horseback....

The young teen with a feathered mustache shuffled over to me, his eyes slightly down cast as he tried to shove the lead rope in my hands. Reflexively, I sighed...

Great fiction is made of grand adventures, but in real life, they're far less common. Not for Meredith Cherry. This fall, Cherry will embark on The Centauride, an epic quest...

Almost everything about summer vacations is wonderful: new places, new people, amazing landscapes—except that part when you start to miss your horse at the end. But what if you didn't have to leave him behind?...

If you happen to be touring historic estates in the U.K. this summer, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is a good place to start. In addition to its sprawling 18th century Baroque...

After stumbling across this video for High Country Horses, a horse trek operator based in Glenorchy, New Zealand, we’re pretty sure we’ll never ever want to ride horses Down Under....

While perusing the internet in search of a delicious slice of horse news to feed you fine people, I came across a tantalizing headline: "Horse Breeding and Human Rights in Turkmenistan". Click. If...

Hundreds of miles of untouched, virgin land, speckled with a myriad of horses, goats, sheep, cattle, yak and little running ground squirrels lie before me. Falcons fly overhead, as scavenging...