Texas Trail Ride

After a great Easter Sunday service, I got on a plane late that afternoon and flew to Dallas, TX where I met up with Tom and Tim Foster, my bros.-in-law, for five days of trail riding. We left early Monday morning to Caprock Canyon State Park. It was great to go through country side of Texas. I got to go through the great cities of Turkey and Quitaque (pronounced "kitty-kway") that were so quaint with their old style downtown areas and rich in history. We got there in the afternoon and had time to take about a four hour trail ride into the canyon. The scenery was incredible. The riding was exceptional, especially for this city boy. We got back that first day and grilled some venison Tom had brought for the trip. It was delicious. The next two days we rode there in Caprock and then on Wednesday drove over to Palo Duro Canyon right outside of Amarillo.

Palo Duro Canyon is twenty miles wide, a hundred and twenty miles long and eight hundred feet deep. It is the second largest canyon in North American right after the Grand Canyon. It has some of the most incredible rock formations. Some of the most popular are the "Lighthouse" and "Castle" rock formations which you can see in the slideshow. It was about a 13 mile round trip from our camp to the "lighthouse." Then on Friday, we rode in another part of the canyon that was a real treat before we headed back to Dallas.

Thank you Tom & Tim for all your preparation and work in putting this together and for letting me join you guys on a great trip! It was a blast!