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...feel like playing cowboy for a day, you can go horseback riding at an equestrian center right outside of Boston that is accessible by public transportation. Called Boston Equestrian Center, it offers trail-rides on conservation land. Trail rides are $25 for one hour and are given for beginners through advanced riders. Boston Equestrian center also offers a $99 inclusive five week beginners program that teaches things like tacking and all the other basics of riding. That program takes place for an hour-and-a-half every Sunday and is offered every five weeks...
...Raspets are convinced that their daughter has missed nothing. "Sunny has lots of other interests--horseback riding, volunteer work, the piano. She recently built a phone for her uncle. There are so many more rewarding things to do than watch...
...road. "If Neil Young can go out with a truck full of Harleys, I can have a horse trailer. I'm sure country acts do." She pauses at that last sentence, as if caught in an indiscretion. But she goes on and on, about horses and many other things. "Horseback riding is the most natural thing in my blood--that and singing," she says. She first rode a horse when she was two or three while growing up in Alaska, before the hard years--her parents divorcing, life with father in and out of bars, life with mother living...
...campgrounds are in the wilderness, either. Las Vegas' Circus Circus casino has a campground, and Disney World has Fort Wilderness, where if visitors tire of Fantasyland, they can go canoeing and horseback riding. For some people this may be too much of a good thing. Much to the chagrin of folks like the Sutherlands, many campgrounds now have something they never had before: NO VACANCY signs...
Texas authorities were ecstatic at the bloodless finale. Of the seven people who held out through the week, five were in custody while two who had fled into the countryside seemed likely to be run to ground by bloodhounds and Rangers on horseback. Midway through the almost comic siege, reporters joked that Governor George W. Bush might have to turn into Governor Fujimori--a reference to the Peruvian President who had to use force to end the four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place...