Loaded up and trucking!

John and I went on a trip for our 2 year anniversary this past weekend. The dogs went to a boarding kennel and we loaded up 2 horses in The Mothership v. 2.0 (our big trailer) and headed to The Fork farm in Norwood, NC. This is the farm that hosts The Fork horse trials and they have a lodge for overnight visitors and stabling for horses as well as a sporting clays course.

The Mothership v. 2.0!

The plan was to leave on Friday after dropping the dogs off. We got approximately 1.5 hours away when my truck started having wheel bearing problems. We turned around and thought about canceling the trip but ended up deciding to pick up John's truck and leave early on Saturday instead. I went to visit my parents on Friday night and came home to see that a new toy had been delivered to our property for John. 

More detailed post about this coming soon! 

Four AM on Saturday came WAY sooner than I wanted and we departed for the second time (I'm sure the horses were like WTF at this point). It took forever to get through the I95 traffic but the horses traveled very well despite the stop and start traffic. When we finally arrived it was over 100 degrees! John went to shoot sporting clays and I got the horses settled in. The stabling was beautiful and there was a nice breeze in the barns, plus we had it all to ourselves! We went to dinner in town (and John drank a $12.00 beer!) and then went riding around the cross country course and a small section of the property. The jumps for the horse trials were HUGE and the property was so nice.

A huge jump shaped like a shotgun!

Sunday morning we went for a ride before packing up and heading out. The drive home was also very long, one of the trailer tires blew off from the heat of the pavement and the heat shield on the truck rotor started coming off (John fixed this with hay string and a zip tie..somehow). At this point the horses were pretty much over being in the trailer and we were all very relieved to get home around 10pm.

I'm glad we went on this trip and that Chester (retired race horse) is such a pro at going to new places. He settled right in and was a champ for all of our riding, he ate all his feed and drank really well in the heat! I am so thankful that John has the mechanical knowledge he does and that we were able to get the truck down the road, also that he can drive The Mothership because it is huge.

After all that...we will be staying much closer to home for a while!! :)