The first time I went horseback riding I was eight years old and a Girl Scout-in-training (a Brownie, to be specific) who would never quite make it to the Girl Scouts. It was a surprise, too, because as a child I liked uniforms and codes of conduct and members-only salutes. But the wilderness skills, the large group socializing games, the requirement that we become door-to-door saleswomen who didn鈥檛 get to keep even a little of the money we raked in鈥攊t wasn鈥檛 for me. I earned three or four badges over two months, and then I quit. One of these鈥攊roned onto my tiny brown vest by my mother鈥攚as the Horse Rider Badge.聽
Get Me Out of Here
鈬 Paddleboarding
鈬 Hiking Bass Lake
鈬 Archery
鈬 Caving
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