Bluffton to Las Vegas and Everywhere in Between

We headed out first thing in the morning, just after 6:00am, on Friday so that we could get to the Coutts/Sweetgrass border corssing before the veterinarian left for the long weekend. The trip was uneventful to the border and once we got to the border things went slowly, but smoothly. The border crossing was insanely busy because of the long weekend. We were lucky because we got to go in the "big truck lane" otherwise we would have been waiting in line for at least an hour. We then had to see the veterinarian at the border crossing who had to inspect the horses and sign our papers. The time spent at the border set our arrival time into Idaho Falls back by two hours and we had a really long day, not arriving to the barn in Idaho Falls until just after 10:00pm. Music on my lap top was the only thing that kept us going! The horses all settled in right away thankfully and we all had a much needed nights rest.

Today was a much more exciting drive since we got to drive Utah, Arizona, and ended in Nevada for the night. Southern Utah along with Arizona are beautiful because of the many canyons and dark red hills. Salt Lake City is a bit terrifying to drive through with the truck and trailer, but dad always does a great job driving within 6 lanes of busy traffic. Vegas is a similar story and by the time we pulled off the Interstate and stopped at the barn for the night, dad was fairly exhausted from the stress of the traffic. The barn we are at for the night is so cute and it is only minutes from the strip if you can believe that!!!

The horses have all been travelling quite well and they were very eager to drink today since the temperature started to rise once we hit southern Utah. By the time we crossed into the Arizona border it was 30 degrees. The horses are super spoiled at the barn tonight and have turnouts attached to their stalls, along with fans that are running continuously. Oslo seems to be very "chill" on this trip thus far (knock on wood), Skippy wasn't eating much the first day, which for anyone who knows Skippy, knows that is VERY strange. He seems to have settled in today though and is back to his "pigish self". Cashew, the newest member of the gang is doing terrific for only being 4 years old and not having hauled very much before. She has been really good loading everytime after a rest stop and seems to be keeping her nerves in check as well. She is a little superstar!

Goodnight from Vegas and I will update the blog once we arrive in San Diego!