Stans - Day 10

[girl_on_a_stick]

Comments

[grail76]

The first time I heard of this game was in 1974 on Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. He uses it for (and insists it is) a metaphor of the relation between horsemen and farmers. The one she showed was filmed in Afghanistan.

Sounds like you got the right horse.
The whole trip sounds thrilling.

[atillathehung]

PERFECT photos and descriptions. That's a very beautiful place.

[swerve]

You got to watch buzkashi! I'd never heard the local names for the game. What an amazing day (though probably not for the goat).

[gooroo]

I don't think I'd have much use for a busted-up goat, but you make that game sound pretty cool. Interesting post - to the max.

[c_maxx]

All that unspoiled landscape! As a bill-of-rights environmentalista, I can only say, shazaam!! The trip of a lifetime, I'd say, or at least one of a few.

What a great horse! Would he fit in your lunch box? He looks intelligent as well as spirited.

What riding training have your had, or recommend? We'd like our daughter to learn to ride, not so much in a style, as for a future life skill. She's in some of my posts, but mostly I think friend-only ones.

As a water engineer and earth scientist, I expect we'll see a lot of changes in the next hundred and two hundred years. In the next 5-10 years we expect to move somewhere closer to the land.

With the two biggest aquifers in the US due to deplete in the next 40-80 years [Calif San Joaquin and grain belt Ogallala], SoCal is no place to be. Little native food, or water either... The street wideners tore down all the local walnut trees in the 30's-50's.