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COMENTARIOS / ANNOTATIONS
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 5:34 PM
Thanks so very much for our recent horseback
riding adventure. (March 25th, 2009)
We were really happy about how our little girl fared
with the adventure. The horse you guys picked for her
was a superstar, as were those we rode, each very suited
to their rider's experience level.
Your ranch is fantastically beautiful, a real treasure
of this earth !
We've put our GPS track and a few photos from the
trip up here. Let us know if that's ok or if you'd like
to see it changed in any way.
regards and thanks again
Christian Nally, Martine Paulin and little Lili
!
Datum: Montag, 2. März 2009, 19:30
Dear Magnus Rehnberg
My name is Heike Schiele and I was one of the riders on
the Cabalgata you were meant to join in Bariloche. So
I couldn't really help but learn about your misfortune.
I asked Carol to give me your e-mail address so that I
could drop you a line. I hope you don't mind - but I just
felt very sorry for you and our inability to communicate
the hold up, since there is no cell phone reception in
the backcountry. I had a similar experience recently in
Chile, so I can guess what anguish you must have lived
through.
This was my third ride with Carol - I did my first one
three years ago for nine days and was so happy with the
ride that I came back last year and once again this year.
The rides are quite a special experience and I hope that
you might be able to do one in the future.
I love the rugged countryside, the willing and capable
horses and the hospitality one experiences in this country.
It is an experience that I can't compare easily with anything
I have ever experienced in Europe or New Zealand where
I live nowadays.
I hope the incident has not spoilt your trip too much,
Yours sincerely
Heike Schiele
Hi Carol
Just a little message from us to say again what a
fantastic trip we had with you. We felt so fortunate to
be able to go high up into the mountains and to experience
a pack trip and your horses were brilliant at looking
after us and being entirely trustworthy and the trip far
exceeded any of our hopes expectations. A special thank
you goes to you, Alicia, Antonacio and Ailine too for
looking after us so well throughout.
Hope you have a great rest of the season.
Best wishes
Ollie & Georgia
Carol,
Angela and I wanted to thank you for a wonderful trip
on March 6th. Alicia and Guillermo were wonderful and
we had a great time. We will be sure to tell our friends
about you should they find themselves in Bariloche.
All best, Steve and Angela
.... it was great as all the other rides I had with you.
thanks a lot for them. I have only two weeks left here
in south America and I have to get my friends to Santiago
for their flight and then me for mine. but I will definetely
come back again and for sure wont miss riding with you
again too. probably wont be able to do it next season,
but i want to come after two years.
thanks a lot again, the four days ride has been the
best experience during my five months here. and the last
ride was a highlight for my friends too.
see you in the future
bye and sending regards from my friends
Martin
From
"Sao Khai Mong"
Dear Carol,
I arrived back in the US a couple of days ago, all
safe and sound.
Thank you for the wonderful and relaxing time I had
with you. It was a lot more than horseback riding ---
the experience began with you picking me up in your Land
Rover at the hotel, the drive out, the camp, the cooking,
the scenery, the isolation, the gauchos, etc, etc. There
are Land Rovers, and there are Land Rovers. And then there
is Carol Jone's Land Rover. I hope you manage to keep
it running for another ten years or more.
Now, I have a serious question for you --- Would you
consider the possibility of me doing a four or five day
trip, where I can hike and camp alone on your estancia
for three days, and just ride for about two days? Nothing
certain yet, just want to explore options about what I
might be doing in the future.
My best wishes to Aileen, Jarred, and big Aileen.
Regards,
Khai
Hello Carol,
I just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful trip
I will not forget. The mountains and lake at Nauel Huapi
are spectacular, and the journey with you was a delightful
exploration with friends.
I have posted some photos on my web site, and a story
of my visit to Argentina at:
http://www.rrontheroad.com/wander/Patagonia/patag1.html
(photos)
http://www.rrontheroad.com/gjournal/journal/j41patagonia.html
(story)
Muchos abrazos,
Ruth
hi Carol,
I hope your trip yesterday went well. I just wanted to
write and thank you again for an unforgettable few days;
even with the rain, it was really wonderful, and I really
appreciate you hospitality. IT should go without saying
that I´d be happy to show you and your family around
New York one day if you plan to come (though probably
not on horseback).
much thanks,
David
Hola Carol!
We just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful day.
We had a magical time. It´s been a highlight of
our stay in Bariloche. As I said, it exceeded even the
Lonely Planet write-up - and I will email them to let
them know!!
Hope your next 5 day trip goes well. One day we hope we
will be able to join you on one ourselves.
Best wishes,
Rebecca and Ben
p.s. thought you´d be glad to know that we seem
to have escaped without any aches or pains from our time
in the saddle!!
22 Feb 2006
Dear Carol
I have arrived in Buenos Aires on my way to Germany and
if it wasn´t for the last little bit of Patagonian
dirt under my fingernails and a pile of dusty clothes
I would think that I had a very nice dream about horse
riding.
The ride was out of this world and I would like to thank
you and your team for making it happen. It will take a
few more days to digest all we saw and experienced. I
can´t wait for my fotos to be developed to check
that it really happened.
I hope you´ll enjoy your break before the next tour.
Take care and all the best,
Heike
18 Feb 2006
Hello Carol
I just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful trip
I will not forget. The mountains and lake at Nauel Huapi
are spectacular, and the journey with you was a delightful
exploration with friends.
I have posted some photos on my web site, and a story
of my visit to Argentina at:
http://www.rrontheroad.com/wander/Patagonia/patag1.html
(photos)
http://www.rrontheroad.com/gjournal/journal/j41patagonia.html
(story)
Muchos abrazos,
Ruth
17 Feb 2006
Hi Carol,
I had such a wonderful time, exactly what I was
hoping for. Thanks again for letting me ride such a
nice horse. Really good to meet you, you are an
amazing person and I have tremendous respect for you
that you are following your dreams. May we meet
again someday. Here is all of my info if you´d like
to have it, visit, or pass it along: - Robyn Spector
Highland Ranch
P.O. Box 150
707-895-3600
www.highlandranch.com
21. Januar 2006
Hola Carol!
We just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful day.
We had a magical time. It´s been a highlight of
our stay in Bariloche. As I said, it exceeded even the
Lonely Planet write-up - and I will email them to let
them know!!
Hope your next 5 day trip goes well. One day we hope we
will be able to join you on one ourselves.
Best wishes, Rebecca and Ben
P.S.
Thought you´d be glad to know that we seem to have
escaped without any aches or pains from our time in the
saddle!!
12 Jan 2006
Hi Carol,
I hope your trip yesterday went well. I just wanted to
write and thank you again for an unforgettable few days;
even with the rain, it was really wonderful, and I really
appreciate you hospitality. It should go without saying
that I´d be happy to show you and your family around
New York one day if you plan to come (though probably
not on horseback).
much thanks,
David
Sept. 1987
(...) After dinner, we drink the countryman's "mate",
a tea sucked up with a silver straw from a little gourd,
and then we retire, Carol and I to our respective sleeping
bags and tents, Cornelio to his blankets spread on the
ground. He says he does not like the idea of sleeping
in a bag.
We are lucky with the weather. It could easily rain at
this time of the year, but it snows instead, just once.
We are climbing a ridge, the horses delicately picking
their way through the loose rocks, when the snow blusters
up and covers the mountain. Gaining altitude, I take extreme
care always to keep Cornelio's black poncho in my sight.
It is during this snow that I have the impression that
there is some purpose to all this, besides a trek for
a trek's sake. Perhaps we are chasing something, or, better
yet, being chased. In a moment, I recognize the feeling-of
being 13 years old and reading J.R.R. Tolkien, of following
an improbable band of questers as they escape from some
beautiful and terrible forest, only to land in a river,
or on a mountain more beautiful and terrible still for
being closer to the object of the quest. And the object
was what? A ring, I suppose. The only part I really remember
is the urgency of my reading; likewise is the urgency
of staying close behind Carol, Our lady of patagonia,
and Cornelio the dark, as we struggle to the ridge (...)
Joseph Hooper - UltraSport
Magazine, Sept. 1987
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