With a Truck This Big, You Can't Be Incognito!

This past weekend, I hooked up with longtime friend and H&R contributor Patty Brumley, for a girls' weekend in Walla Walla, Washington. We picked W2 for the meet-up spot for several reasons, not the least of them being that a Quarter Horse show was taking place at the fairgrounds. This, we figured, would give us a great opportunity to do a little incognito scouting of arena trends, show fashions, training styles, and so forth.

As long as we weren't all starched and hatted up, we figured we'd be basically invisible--as no one pays much attention to the "civilians" who turn up at horse shows.

But then, we blew our cover, by accepting a dinner invitation from Joel Gleason, the proprietor of Avila's Pro Shop. Joel offered to drive us all to a little corner bistro in downtown W2--in the monstrous truck he uses to pull his vendor trailer. (If you think it looks big here, you ought to see it parked next to a BMW.)

Naturally, we had to have our picture taken before we set out in Joel's Big Ride. And then, as we rolled down the streets of W2, it was all we could do not to roll down the windows and practice our queen waves!