1969912 0 #1 November 13, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311038,00.html QuoteFREDONIA, Kan. — When rancher Bill Inman decided to show there's more to America than what's seen on the nightly news, he hopped on his horse Blackie and started riding. And riding, and riding. Weary of the daily drumbeat over war, crime, poverty and assorted social ills, he and his wife are burning through their life savings to tell the stories of hardworking, honest everyday people in rural America. Inman soaks it all in atop Blackie, a 16-year thoroughbred-quarter horse mix who's averaging 20-25 miles a day along backroads from Oregon to North Carolina. "Unfortunately, the image they are portraying is there's corruption in every politician and there's criminals running everywhere," he said. "I guess guys that rope like me, we wouldn't need to rope steers. You could just sit out there and rope a criminal because they're coming by every 10 minutes."............ "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #2 November 13, 2007 Didn't you get the memo? "Flyover land" doesn't count to the limousine liberalsMike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #3 November 13, 2007 Sounds like a fantastic adventure! "Inman, 48, started June 2 from his hometown of Lebanon, Ore. Halfway through his cross-country trek dubbed Uncovering America by Horseback, he's rolled up 1,700 miles. His wife, Brenda, also 48, drives ahead in a pickup and horse trailer filled with water and provisions for Blackie, three dogs and themselves." Wonder how many of us would love to do something like that ... perhaps not on literal horseback ... but I bet some would tho'. VR/Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #4 November 13, 2007 Quote Sounds like a fantastic adventure! Wonder how many of us would love to do something like that ... perhaps not on literal horseback ... but I bet some would tho'. VR/Marg I have a friend that did something similar... he built a homemade raft and floated the entire length of the Mississippi. Wrote a book about it, too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #5 November 13, 2007 I've done a smaller version of that several times (roughly 120 miles riding over the course of a week) - the first few days are MURDER, but after that you toughen up to it. It can be rough to keep the horses' weight up, though.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
