Day 2. Our first full day in the Basin., We arrived mid-morning and met up with Cindy of the “Wild Hors eWarrior’ and Kath from “Piceance Mustangs”
Day three of the 2023 Mustang Walkabout™ was our Sixth Annual ‘Meet & Shoot’.
My flight was early, and a lovely car service fetched me at 3:00am. Thankfully, both of my flights were on time, and uneventful. Karen met me at the airport and we began the 4-5 hour drive to Sand Wash Basin.
We made it as far as the huge incline above Steamboat Springs, Colorado but the road was closed. No cars were permitted either direction. We found out a truck driver lost control of his rig (it is a very steep hill), and crashed. The driver did not survive the crash , we were rerouted about two hours to get around the accident. It was very sad, andI have always said, ‘as annoying as traffic may be, I’d rather be in traffic, than the cause of it‘.
We arrived at Craig, Colorado later than expected and so decided to get a hotel room for the night instead of trying to push through. I began my day very early, so it was a nice to relax and rest. The town of Craig is about an hour away from the entrance to Sand Wash Basin,
Another gorgeous hot day in the Basin. We are preparing for a rainy day tomorrow and no solar. We will prepare some snakkies in the solar cooker today to munch on tomorrow. But first, we go to town- Maybell, CO population 74. We get gas, ice and take advantage of the showers ($3). We do shower in the trailer, but there’s something about showering in a real shower that’s positively decadent. (Oh, and real flush toilets!)
We saw Comet Neowise last night It’s getting less bright, but it was amazing to see. We did not get any photos… that we know of since the photos need a lot of post production. Maybe we got lucky.
Who names horses? Well at Sand Wash, who never finds the new foal gets naming rights. Cindy was kind enough to allow us to name a new foal and since Karen and I have named a few already- we passed that on to another horse lover Sarah Broas. She named the new colt in Bronze’s band ‘Argon’ (as in the noble has) and his dam is Reyne. We got tons of pictures on the good camera, but here is a cell phone picture.
Here are some more photos of horses we saw today.
