It's 9:00am in the Slovenian countryside.  Our group is standing around, chatting with the owners of this beautiful, hand-built barn, where we had left the horses and the bikes the evening before. Huge hay rounds are stacked to the ceiling and the smell is fresh and pleasant.  The bikers are getting ready to start peddling for the day and us [...]

It's been a long, hot summer. I feel like I've been at the barn most of the time, sweating and shooing away flies. But some morning, most mornings, as I watch the horses in the field grazing and I'm pushing the wheelbarrow full of manure to the pile, and I'm watering my veggies, and putting fly spray on the horses, I [...]

The moors are covered in wildflowers and about 1,000 different types of grasses.  The mist hangs low this morning and it makes me think of werewolves and hobbits and talking trees.  It makes my group of women think about Jamie from Outlander riding his fiery steed to sweep them off of their feet and rescue them from peril (complete the [...]

The sound of bells is everywhere. Mostly they come from the collars of the goats who roam freely through these hills.  As we wind up through the ancient olive groves along abandoned dirt roads, we catch glimpses of them meandering through the rocky fields looking for the best blades of grass.  Our horses are well-used to the sounds and sights [...]

I don't know about you, but I'm fascinated by the past.  Not so much by history, like dates and wars and whom was president when, but more in the regular lives of people whose feet have walked in the same places where mine now do.  They built a life here and raised their families.  They grew their crops, planted flowers, [...]

Joy Riding in Spain ~ Heaven on Earth I wake up in the morning to a sore butt and a stiff back.  My body groans a little bit as I roust myself out of my cozy, little bed in the 1000-year old farmhouse where we’ve been staying.  The owner greets us on the veranda with homemade pastries, fruit from the [...]