Horses, ranchers, tracks

The ride continues through the high prairie, and at one level a person could be thinking that this is country to pass through as quickly as possible.   If you did think that is you would miss a great deal. The reason, well the scenery is one, and one good reason to linger but the other  reason is the people that you wouldn't meet if you passed through without pause.

You would also miss an experience.    And yes those are bullet holes under the 'A'

The roads, well they are mostly black top, but not all.

Sometimes they go to dirt track without notice....like this...

And then you come onto stuff you cannot predict, a falling down house, a memorial for a tragedy on the road.

And the  we have the people we've met, take Dale, Dale served within the military for a number of years, he was a crop duster, (crop sprayer in English parlance), a pilot in Alaska for a number of years, and now flies the Emergency Hospital Flights in his local town.  As school boy tells me that he rode the six miles to school, and this was a single room school house.  He also was saying that, when working on the ranch a day in the saddle would mean up to 75 miles of ground covered by man and horse.

When I met him he offered to take to his ranch to see his stock mainly his horses and stock bulls

But here's the thing; the relationship these men have with the stock is very special. they seem to be able to talk the horses, sounds crazy but, I have say true.

But its not all looking at horses, riding on dirt tracks and having a good time, Alvon and Tom need to do the serious stuff, which way?