19th June 2010

After a wonderful few days, first in New York and then Connecticut with my daughters, my sister and my nephews, I flew up to Salt Lake City early this morning to meet up with my very dear friend Barbara Owens.  I met Barbara on my first TTEAM training at Bitterroot over sixteen years ago and we have remained close friends.  I haven’t seen Barbara for a couple of years as both of us are ridiculously busy and it was great to spend six hours together on the drive through Utah to Jackson, Wyoming. Robyn’s son in law, Walt, was also with us and I haven’t seen him for a few years either so it was great catching up with them both. Of course there was much laughter along the way and I am so ridiculously excited at the thought of spending a week at the Bitterroot Ranch, the journey seemed remarkably short.  Walt should actually be renamed Tom Tom as he has an uncanny knack of being able to find his way across whatever country he is in without the need for a map and we arrived in Jackson in good time and in very good spirits.

We met up with Robyn, her daughter Mandy and another wonderful friend Andy who is visiting from Australia and had the most fantastic supper in a wonderful restaurant in Jackson.  I have an article to write and pictures to email to an equestrian magazine back in England so will take advantage of the slight jet lag (am now two hours behind NY time) and get up early to make sure I meet the deadline before we all meet up for breakfast in town tomorrow morning prior to our two hour journey up to the Ranch.

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