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As a birthday present to myself\u2014which also coincided with this month’s California Wild Adventure<\/em> (working title)\u2014I decided to book myself a trail ride up in the Sierra National Forest! I\u2019ve been riding regularly for a month now and I got the itch to ride out in nature which led me to Shaver Stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last time I went on a trail ride I was barely a tween, and my family took a summer road trip down to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon. I really wanted to ride a horse, and we ended up finding an hour-long trail ride tour in the area. I remember riding an all business, no non-sense palomino named Dillon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this trip, I got to ride a Mustang mare named Dusty. She was actually my favourite out of all of the horses because she reminded me so much of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. So I was surprised and delighted when I was told I was going to ride her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I left my phone at the stables so I didn\u2019t get any pictures of the scenery. But it was a beautiful ride that took us through a small section of forest and past the lake. I ended up seeing a few birds including a Raven, possibly a woodpecker, and a gorgeous Red Tailed Hawk that flew at eye-level into the trees. It\u2019s such a different, unique way to experience the outdoors on horseback and I think it\u2019d be fun to try a horseback camping tour sometime in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I missed Eden and I felt a little sad that she wasn\u2019t there with me. But there are so many dog-friendly trails up in the Sierra National Forest we can explore together, so I\u2019ll be back next month with my best girl by my side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love being in my 30\u2019s. I feel like I\u2019ve really grown into myself and that my life is starting to gain momentum. Things were a little bumpy when I first hit 30 (hello, Saturn Return), but they\u2019re now really coming into their own and I\u2019m falling more and more in love with my life.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope for big, beautiful, positive changes in our world during my lifetime. Happy birthday, to me. My birthday snuck up on me this year, and I feel like that speaks to how much my day-to-day life has changed over the past few months. Time feels like it\u2019s moving so quickly, and so strangely, that I haven\u2019t even registered that it\u2019s September despite it being my favourite month of the year\u2014it\u2019s Virgo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,27,65],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures","category-brain-dump-2","category-wild-california","tag-brain-dump","tag-for-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I hope for a better future where we can all thrive and live our best lives.
I hope for True Love to finally find me.
I hope for even more blessings, success, and moments of magic both big and small.
I hope to continue being my ancestors\u2019 wildest dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s to 33 more revolutions around the Sun.
Here\u2019s to 33 more years on our beloved Pale Blue Dot we all call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"