Quote Originally Posted by Jason Bowden View Post
Cool! Thanks for shaing. It looks like lots of fun. Iowa looks wide open like parts of Montana.
The only riding I have ever done was as a child on a very well mannered horse.
Oh I love it! Iowa is very wide open. Mostly corn and soy bean fields everywhere you look! The pictures that you can see far in, that's actually a pretty big "hill" that obstructs your view from seeing farther. My cousin from Virgina makes fun of me for calling that a hill, he calls them bumps of dirt. I live in Williamsburg and Cedar Rapids, a large city, is about 40 miles from me. If I stand in just the right place in town I can see smoke and the smoke stacks from a factory in that town!!!!!

Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive View Post
Well, it looks like your filly is an old pro As for improper riding position; I cannot complain, because I do it too.
I recently drove through Iowa; on the way back from Cali, we went off the road due to ice. Everyone who we encountered, from the police officer who stopped and gave us a ride into town, to the clerks at the store, were extremely polite and helpful. Go Iowa!
She does look like an old pro doesn't she! I'm glad I'm not the only one who rides all cockeyed I don't show so I suppose it doesn't really matter for me! Well, I take that back, I show for fun at small shows, but I'm just there so no one else has to get last place

I've never noticed how nice everyone in Iowa is until I went to the East coast, people are much less willing to go out of their way to help. I live right on I80, I'm guessing that's the road you took? Maybe I saw your car I drive I80 every day to class. I usually stop to help people, but my fiance forbids me from giving people rides. I figure as long as my Dobie is in the car with me, I ought to be alright