{"id":825,"date":"2010-06-12T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=825"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:32:10","slug":"the-road-to-berrigan-was-cold-and-windy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Berrigan was cold and windy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the<\/a>It has been so cold and windy for the three days\u00a0 and 120kms of riding between Boree Creek and Berrigan that the horses and I have just accomplished. I rode into Berrigan late yesterday arvo at about 4.30 which was awesome as we left Oaklands at 8am.\u00a0 I’d stayed\u00a0Friday night\u00a0 at the Oaklands Hotel and had a great nights rest. Lisa and Kev are the publicans at Oaklands and provided me with accommodation and a meal.\u00a0\u00a0A very lively Friday night was going on at the pub with pizza’s being churned out of the kitchen at incredible pace by Lisa and her crew\u00a0(eat your heart out Eagle Boys!) to feed the crew in the bar. The locals were very generous in their donating to ride4acure and very interested in the ride. A big thank you to Shane and Kate for providing a great paddock for the night and ferrying my gear from Oaklands to Berrigan for me. And most especially dropping off a hot curry pie for my lunch yesterday, in the cold and wind it was delicious!\u00a0 I’d just pulled up about 15kms from Berrigan for a late lunch and put the nosebags on the horses when Shane and Kate pulled up.\"the<\/a>Had an interesting time with a solo, pshyco emu about 10kms out of Berrigan and for a brief moment wasn’t sure I was going to make it as the horses went ballistic when they saw this crazy emu running flat out toward them! all three horses went racing backwards away from the bird. I finally got them over the highway on the other side of the road and hard against the other fence and managed to get them past it JUST!! Of course all the way into town they were jumping out of their skins as every bush had become a horse eating emu! They didn’t really settle down until we got to town, but they walked that fast we covered the last ten kms in record time! So there was a bonus out of the experience.<\/p>\n

I met some wonderful people a few weeks ago when I was riding through Mirool and they’d teed up a paddock and accommodation for me here in Berrigan which is very comfortable. I’m still tucked up in bed now with a warm wood fire going catching up on email. The horses are fetlock deep in good feed in a great paddock. I have a good friend coming to spend a few days with me whom I have known since my teens.<\/p>\n

The exciting thing is I am about to cross the Murray River. Am only a days ride now from Cobram. This feels like a real milestone. I am also very close to Nathalia, in Victoria\u00a0which is where I was born. My family had a farm there back in the 50’s and early 60’s. Also Berrigan where I am today is where my Uncle Ray Luxford lived for a good part of his life with his wife Betty and their family. The first person I met as I rode into town came out to give a donation and it \u00a0turned out he’d worked with Uncle Ray! Good Welcome!<\/p>\n

Today am kicking back and resting up, catching up on emails etc, planning events for the last three weeks-watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been so cold and windy for the three days\u00a0 and 120kms of riding between Boree Creek and Berrigan that the horses and I have just accomplished. I rode into Berrigan late yesterday arvo at about 4.30 which was awesome as we left Oaklands at 8am.\u00a0 I’d stayed\u00a0Friday night\u00a0 at the Oaklands Hotel and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}