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| Posted: Wed Jan 13th, 2010 11:16 pm |
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ranchoelpalmar Member
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Everybodys always looking for something new and adventurous to do, but just don't know what it is! Try taking the family or yourself on a horseback tour with the guys out at rancho el palmar. They offer everything from a riding lesson and a beginner ride on gentle horses for the small kids and first time riders. To an all day excursion into the canyons and mountains outside of San Carlos. Its not just a trail ride,it's an adventure you wont soon forget! Great group rates going on now. Call em @ 622-120-5569 usa 502-413-8177 ranchoelpalmar@yahoo.com http://www.ranchoelpalmar.net Last edited on Tue Jan 4th, 2011 08:17 pm by ranchoelpalmar |
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| Posted: Sat May 22nd, 2010 06:42 am |
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Astrid Member
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We also offer trail rides for all ages and riding experience on guided tours trough the desert and back on the beach. It the perfect temperature right now for the riders and the horses. For little kids we have body seats so that they can ride with their parents. El Rancho del Desierto (by the Paradiso hotel, same entrance than the Soggy Peso Bar) tel : 227.0267 cell : 622-855.5930 e-mail : astridranch@hotmail.com website : http://www.astridranch.com
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| Posted: Sat May 22nd, 2010 07:00 am |
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Astrid Member
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Astrid wrote: We also offer trail rides for all ages and riding experience on guided tours trough the desert and back on the beach.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19th, 2010 11:42 pm |
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carol38 Member
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I took my granddaughter with Ranchoelpalmar in March in the Mountains and on the beach they had a great time, I would suggest this to everyone interested.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20th, 2010 03:58 am |
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Last time I was on a horse I was tossed off . I was adjusting the boys that had been tamped down into a very uncomfortable position during the ride so one hand was occupied and basically tied up, therefore I put the head things toget...her and was holding them together on the horses neck with my left hand, which I found out right then means go faster in horse language, so, with one hand instinctively refusing to UN protect the boys and the other pulling back hard on the head things and me yelling STOP (city guy talk for whoa) I also managed to squeeze the horses neck with my knees in order to stay on the beast. I found out at that moment that squeezing the horses neck with my knees means go really fast- apearantly anything to do with the horses neck seems to mean go faster in horse language. This all happened in a matter of 3-4 seconds. So now the horse is galloping as fast as it can gallop ( I thought) and I'm screaming stop, pulling back on the head things, and squeezing the horses neck with my knees. But the horse keeps galloping. Then suddenly the boys are rearranged to an acceptable spot- cause I was standing up in the footy things cause it was kicking my ass to sit on the seat- mission accomplished boys-- and then it was clear that the perceived age old bond between horse and man was being sorely tested and the the horse was trying to completely break it- along with my neck. But the boys are comfy now. So we gallop for a bit like that with me screaming stop and the horse not stopping so I decided to get off the horsy cause in my mind it occured to me I'm gonna die. At this point in my story I can hear folks that ride horses and probably even some that don't saying to themselves "why didn't he just wait until the horse slowed down or stopped and then get off"? I even thought of that myself later. Answer is two parts really- A) I'd used all my horse stopping tricks up at this point and they hadn't worked and B) when you think your gonna die you do some strange shit. So just like in the old cowboy movies when the cowboy uses the horse to hide from the bad guys I keep my left foot in the left foot thing and throw my right leg over the animals back so now I'm standing up on a galloping horse with one foot in the foot thing and I'm trying to stay on by pulling on the head things across the horses neck so guess what happened next. The horse reached down deep, went to his afterburner, and actually started galloping even faster- must have been the neck thing again. So-at this point instinctively I knew something bad was gonna happen to me if I stayed like that so simulteaneously I let go of the head things and pushed myself up and out of the foot thing at full hyper-gallop with my left leg as hard as I could. I managed to find a really hard patch of rocks and packed earth to land on and then the coolest thing about the whole ordeal just happened and it went in slow motion just like in the movies again! I tucked in my left shoulder toward the middle of my body and put chin down onto chest and as I hit the ground I rolled with the fall just like a freaking Ninja! I skidded to a dusty stop on my back totally uninjured looking up at the sky .And I was alive! After taking a brief physcial inventory and deciding nothing was squished or broken (the boys come first- city or country guy thats universal and automatic) I actually did a yeeha! and started to laugh the best laugh I'd had in quite a while. Dang that was fun!! Again!! NO. I guess at that point I briefly became kind of part country boy. After all - I 'm now in the "i'd been throwed by a horse club" and I'd done spontaneous yeeha. The horsy ran on a bit, made a circle, came back, walked up to me, we looked each other in the eye, and we were buddies again. I got back on and we rode off into the sunset together- well okay- we walked back to the barn. Head things and knees far away from neck and no other sudden or unnecessary moves by me. Boys adjusted BEFORE getting on. So if you've taken the time to read this remember- if you're gonna climb up on back of a beast that can kill you with no intended provocation of your own- take care of the boys prior to mounting up and know this- as I learned on this outing - just about every horsy out there has his/her own little quirk that really pisses him/her off and it might come out at the most in-opportune moment. Happy trails. I guess in fisherman comparability never THINK the large fish is not going to move right when you have your hand near the treble hook attempting to get the lure out of the fishes mouth because you're too lazy to get the pliers out of the tackle box. Cause then the fish jumps and the hook goes completely through your pointer finger from the bottom and comes out the top- AND the fish decides to keep jumping and thrashing as vigorously as it can with you attatched to it via hook through the finger. . At this point there are words coming out of your mouth that didn't even know that you knew and your children and wife will never let you forget that you said them. Somewhere in the melange of profanity I managed to scream " wire cutters"!! and one of my trusty mates retrieved them and handed them to me- since I then was wrestling the fish in the bottom of the boat trying to get it to stop thrashing and there was no room for anyone else to get involved with our pax de deux. So lesson for fishing to be filed with lesson for riding a horse. Use pliers to remove hook when possible. I did end up making a good friend with Werner the town Doctor. After his fifth attempt to pull the hook out he fessed up he did indeed have some lidocaine but, that he was saving it for someone that really needed it. haha. After he shot it up and did a cut with a scalpel we were on our way.
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