I probably should not write at a time when I am sick but here goes...... I want to tell a little about my fishing trip where I also got to ride the horse.
It is really weird being able to go out on my own. I haven't taken any far away trips and have yet to leave this State. Well except for this and one other trip. I always get this feeling of trepidation and don't like to travel long distances by myself, until I am on my way that is. Then it is an adventure and I find that I like going down the road with my music playing on the stereo.
So I am sitting around the house with my girlfriend when I get a call from an old boss of mine who lives on the Roanoke River in Halifax county N.C.. Now if you don't know where that is you can at least imagine that it is in the boonies, or boondocks as some say. So far back in the sticks they have to pump the sunshine in and where moonshine is something in a jar not the sky. It is quite a beautiful landscape. Mostly all old farm houses and what is now mostly soybean and corn used to be corn and cotton, a lot of cotton.
My friend wants me to come go rock fishing on the river and all I have to do is show up. He is providing food and lodging at no cost to me and we will spend the weekend with the boat in the water. I get there and it is a great place that overlooks the rivers. ( I have published the photos of my trip on my facebook page called Turning Leaf Photography.) I will also post a couple on here. Let me say right now that my girlfriend was most welcome to come and was in fact invited also. I even felt bad that she couldn't but believe me, it did not stop me from guiltily having a lot of fun.
I have to say it felt really good to just get away and leave everything behind. It was every bit as good as a two week vacation somewhere distant. My friend came to the wind-streamer I was sleeping in around 5:30 am to tell me it would be a good time to start fishing. The funny thing is I was already dressed and gathering my fishing gear. I fished all day Saturday and well into the night. We started catching shad two at a time around 10 am and not much else the rest of the day. I just had fun trying to catch that next fish. We ended the evening with grilled steak and,baked potatoes, and oven warmed rolls. It was darn right good! I headed off to bed feeling somewhat satisfied yet for me it was about to get even better. My friend David came in to let me know that a friend had an Appaloosa horse that needed desperate riding. I was being given special permission to ride for someone who normally doesn't allow others to ride her horses.
I must say she was real skeptical about my riding abilities and warned me that the horse loved to jump sideways and could be real stubborn. She was right on all accounts but true to my word I got on her and rode her like she was any other horse. I rode for about and hour and had to cut it shorter than I wanted to by the phone call telling me I needed to come on and get some of the best pot roast I have ever eaten. I did and it was!!! An hour later and I was on the 2 1/2 hour trip back home where my wonderful girlfriend was waiting. 
I had lots of fun and really appreciated my friend's invitation. I hope one day to be able to travel a greater distance and maybe even on a motorcycle.
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