Alright yall, this will be our third ride to Texas. It will be our longest ride yet its around 250 miles we will start from the Kansas border and go to Vernon Texas on horse back.
We do this trip every year to attend the Abernathy celebration in Fredrick Oklahoma. Fredrick is about 15 miles from Texas so we go ahead and ride all the way just to say we did it. The two boys named Bud and Temple Abernathy rode their horses to see president Teddy Roosevelt. they were 6 and 10 years old and they lived in Fredrick so the hold a celebration every year in honor of these boys.
A little bit of history,the first year we started from our home in Blanchard Oklahoma, myself my brother and our dad made the 150 mile trip only taking what we could carry on our horses which included bed rolls, canteens,pistol,5 pounds of beef jerky, and some sardines( i refused to eat them btw). every night we would just ask to sleep in overgrown pastures behind peoples houses or on the side of the road.The first night of our trip we slept in a overgrown cow pasture and we shared our bedrolls with what felt like a million spiders. the next morning our dad woke up and found out he had been bitten on the leg we didn't pay much attention to it at first but about the third night his leg was swollen totally black and it had huge blisters on it. He decided to keep going without seeing a doctor so we pushed on. The seventh night of our trip and our last night we stopped in a town called Snyder we got there just before a huge storm hit we hadn't been there for more than thirty minutes when a police officer pulled up and told us that there where three tornado's coming our way and we should get to shelter. But we where so tired and our dad couldn't really walk plus the rain was coming down so hard that we couldn't really see so we decided that we would stay and if the tornado's really did come we would jump in the cattle chute and hope for the best. They never did but i tell you what none of us slept a wink that night.
We arrived without any more trouble but as soon as we got to Fredrick they rushed my dad off to the emergency room and they said that if he had waited two more days he would have lost his leg.
The second trip, Ok we thought this would be a breeze i mean we just about covered everything in the book on our last trip, i mean come on what else could happen? This trip we started from our country store in Mustang Oklahoma we had a big send off and we where pumped. We made good miles that day we had about 45 compared to our usual 35 and it was only 4 o'clock. We where just riding along laughing and having a good timewhen we saw a man out in a field to our right he was chasing three draft mules (now let me tell you what these things are, they are a cross between a donkey and a draft horse they are alot bigger than horses they are very territorial and have big temper problems) so these mules see us and come charging over the so called fence (it was only about 3 feet high) and we immediately jump off our horses and as soon as we get off this mule attacks us. I grabbed my horse by the reins and use the poor guy as a shield we had a pistol on my dads horse he was trying to get it when the mule jumps on top of his horse all the mules feet where off the ground then he sinks his teeth into the horses neck and starts ripping away his skin. By this time we are all in shock and not thinking we just run up to the mule and start beating him with whatever we could get ahold of trying to get him off our horse. finally dad ripped the pistol out while the mule was still on the horse and fired three shots into his neck he got off the horse but came back for more then my dad unloaded the gun in the mules chest and that was it he died right in the middle of the highway with cars lined up for about a mile. other than that the rest of the trip went well we had to exchange horses my dads horse had to get about 40 stitches and the other where just kicked and scratched.
So this trip we don't know what to expect we just know we are ready for more adventure and we will be updating this blog while we are on our trip every chance we get.
Will
