Friends Trip

Just returned from a most lovely and amazing 3 day pack trip to Little Cathedral. We drove the 10 ton full of horses down Horse Canyon to our trailhead. Not without getting bogged down in sand or mud or boulders and pulling out the shovels and everyone heave hoeing a bit to get us unstuck. Alas, we made it (almost) to the trailhead and unloaded. The great thing about pack trips is that you can eat like kings since you aren't worried at all about how much weight is on your back in particular. So, we drank up some cold raw milk from the cooler and made fatty sandwiches with Sue's amazing homemade bread slathered with cream cheese, garden pesto, heirloom tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and fresh cucumbers to make one of the most delicious sandwiches I had ever eaten... At least that day. That kind of food is very typical around here, and my greatest fear of working here is that I will be such a fresh garden foodie by the time I leave that I won't survive in the real world. It is a valid fear, I do believe. 

We loaded up the 4 horses and began our adventure! Actually, the drive was quite adventurous. With way, down Horse Canyon and all the way to Escalante River. It really is pointless to try and describe such an area of beauty and loveliness. So I won't. 

We went to Little Cathedral and camped there for the night. 

I kept thinking about how much I would love for everyone I know to be able to experience something so magical and wonderful. It would make our world a perfect place, really. 

The people and the wild and the horses. That's all I need to live on. And fresh Pesto and Sue's bread of course. 

The Lovely Deseret

Hello people!
Wowzer, how much greater can life be? I wish I could bundle up my happiness and excitement and toss it all over all the ridiculous people out there who mistakenly think their life can't be most happy and enjoyable. It's all about what you want.
I left Knox Farm last June and have spent the summer on good ol' West Mountain with the fam! I have spent the days with my little sister Abigail, riding and thus selling my amazing little pony Bindi to a FANTASTIC home, playing with Helga and her puppies (5 boys), going to driving clinics with Chris and Phil, spending time with a cute farm boy in Idaho, and going on some amazing wilderness adventures with the most amazing folks. Overall, a most enjoyable summer. 
A new adventure is beginning! I am moving to Boulder, Utah for the next 3 months to live in a beautiful cave and string pack horses along through the desert of the Escalante National Monument. I will be living on a beautiful farm where they try to be as sustainable and off the grid as possible. Totally dreamy. With a pretty milk cow, gorgeous grass and alfalfa pastures, beautiful horses, some legit cowboys, a fair amount of hippie folks, and of course some of the most amazing people that I will be living with, it makes for a most magical environment just made for Allison Wonder Landes.
I will be learning lots about how to manage a homestead, sun drying tomatoes, making pesto, making cheese, milking cows, slaughtering pigs and turkeys, and of course making my way through desert environments by horseback. How am I the luckiest girl I know? If you think it, it comes true! Be out there, be brave, think about what you really want, and make it happen.