Over the meadow and through the wood
we rode in a two horse open sleigh....this was a one horse we saw in the same meadow....just a gorgeous sunday and the views were unbelievable
the land near the casinos is owned by the park family, the park cattle family, they used to run cattle here and bought the land over 150 years ago at 2 bucks an acre, we are talking thousands of acres! and in the early 20th century attempted to sell the land at 1 buck an acre......thankfully no takers......and now they lease the land under the casinos to the likes of harrah's and such and this particular parcel is connected to the family house and "grandmother's house" and just this last year was renovated from a bed and breakfast (that mark twain stayed in and wrote part of "roughing it" to a personal residence after being vacant for many decades) while we were on the sleigh we saw a plow service come and plow part of the driveway, so maybe the family will be up this christmas
just spectacular lake tahoe views and mountain vistas and rickety sleigh creaks being pulled by 2 belgian blonde rescue draft horses that were nursed back to health by the borges family that runs and rents the sleigh rides.....another long in the tooth lake tahoe family with all family working the operation, nice to support a local business!
a once in a lifetime special treat for all of us!!!!
we sang jingle bells while the horses ran the flat meadow back to the boarding station! soooo fun! and the horses can pull 6ooo pounds together so our sleigh felt light
kind of cool too how they always stop at the same spots for a rest on their own.....and we got to give them alfalfa treats after we de-sleighed
Over the meadow and through the wood
we rode in a two horse open sleigh....this was a one horse we saw in the same meadow....just a gorgeous sunday and the views were unbelievable
the land near the casinos is owned by the park family, the park cattle family, they used to run cattle here and bought the land over 150 years ago at 2 bucks an acre, we are talking thousands of acres! and in the early 20th century attempted to sell the land at 1 buck an acre......thankfully no takers......and now they lease the land under the casinos to the likes of harrah's and such and this particular parcel is connected to the family house and "grandmother's house" and just this last year was renovated from a bed and breakfast (that mark twain stayed in and wrote part of "roughing it" to a personal residence after being vacant for many decades) while we were on the sleigh we saw a plow service come and plow part of the driveway, so maybe the family will be up this christmas
just spectacular lake tahoe views and mountain vistas and rickety sleigh creaks being pulled by 2 belgian blonde rescue draft horses that were nursed back to health by the borges family that runs and rents the sleigh rides.....another long in the tooth lake tahoe family with all family working the operation, nice to support a local business!
a once in a lifetime special treat for all of us!!!!
we sang jingle bells while the horses ran the flat meadow back to the boarding station! soooo fun! and the horses can pull 6ooo pounds together so our sleigh felt light
kind of cool too how they always stop at the same spots for a rest on their own.....and we got to give them alfalfa treats after we de-sleighed