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Trip Dispatch #41: Tuesday, July 28: Taylor Trading Post Corral: Hurry Up and Wait

We spent two days in the place I dubbed the It’s Really Okay Corral, and waited for Chad to appear. I did body work on the horses and read back issues of the New Yorker that I’d found in the laundry room. In the afternoon, Pete and I turned our musings to when Chad might appear into a guessing game of sorts. We presumed that he’d be driving an older truck, and traveling at a reasonable rate of speed. This was counter to many, who were driving new trucks and traveling at a fast rate of speed.

Chad arrived at 4 p.m. He’d been injured by a horse the day before; the youngster moved unexpectedly while being shod, and the nail sticking out of his hoof tore a hole in Chad’s thigh. His injury caused him to get off to a later start the next day.

He first shoed Raudi, who stood quietly, dozing in the heat of the afternoon sun, then he shod Siggi, who was a bit jumpy. Tourists appeared from seemingly out of nowhere, leaned on the corral fence and chatted. Afterwards, Chad took us out to dinner. And he gave us a plastic bag with six Brook trout before we parted company.

Tourists asked if we led trail rides
Tourists asked if we led trail rides

 

Chad shoeing Siggi in the Taylor Park corral
Chad shoeing Siggi in the Taylor Park corral

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