Judi's Retirement Trip

Retirement Trip April 13 -24th

23 years at ATT and my friend Judi finally retires and we get to take a fabulous trip together with our horses. First we spent a week at Heart of Dixie Trailride located in Troy, Alabama and then 5 days at Roosevelt State Park in Georgia. Dennis and Lisa joined us at Heart of Dixie. What a nice place to stay and ride. But the first few days were very wet and muddy; some trails were closed. Altoona Trail Riders were there too. They had three people on horses go down in the mud in the river and had to be pulled out with ropes.

Dollar is such a begger Cookie please~!

We were very careful after that report. We followed this cowboy across a water hole no problem. On the way back across Judi was about two feet to the left of Lisa and down she and Chico went! It was so scarey. Chico could not get his feet under him. Andy (ATR member) came with a rope but Chico finally got up. He had been lying on his side with he head barely out of the water!! Whats so bad is, this is the third time this sort of thing has happened to Judi.

The next day we went back to see where they went down. The water had gone down about two feet. You could see that there were two seperate bodies of water with a built up trail between the two--with 3 foot drop offs on each side. Any way the rest of the trails were great. We had a really nice trip. We each took a turn at dinner and a night of left overs. Works for me.Dennis made donuts one night. Yum Yum! Dennis also had to fix Lisa's trailer and he had a little help from Faith!

The barn was HUGE...a long row of inside stalls and a long row of outside stalls. The owners were really nice. On Saturday Judi and I rode across the street. It was nice there too.(Lisa and Dennis left for home). Judi and I left on Sunday.

Roosevelt State Park is beautiful. We camped on Lake Delanor. The horse barn was four and a half miles away...we did not like that idea. The barn was not as nice as we would have liked but the owners were really nice; they even invited us to ride with them..but we didnt. The first trail was pretty level but the other trails were very rocky and all up,up, up and down, down, down. Good thing we had shoes put on our horses. Our horses got pretty tired. Dollar did really good. No spooking and did everything I asked. He is a really good horse. The first night we left our feed in containers with tops but the coons got into Judi's feed!! The last day we took the Cowboy Trail and Ifinally got to see deer. We would feed, eat breakfast, ride for two hours, go to town or sight seeing, do lunch and not get back until it was time to feed again!!We were both ready to go home by Thursday. It was a 7 hour trip home. I had a fabulous time.