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Harriet and I shared breakfast on the porch one summer day and looked over her half-dozen horses dozing under the pines to the side of the house. She rather casually mentioned that Alibhai might not make it through the next winter. I studied the small-ish grey gelding and realized Harriet could be right. A typical vicious Northern Illinois winter could indeed make him decide it was time to move on. “Send him to Kiki’s,” I suggested, referring to Harriet’s sister who was breeding Arabians in Arizona at the time. “He’d do fine down there, wouldn’t he?” “We can’t afford to send him down there.” “Well, ride him down there,” I suggested, meaning to deflect a host of unpleasant facts with ...

This is Volume Two of the large print edition of The Best That Can Happen: The Grand Trek, stories of when Kathleen Schmitt decided to ride her horse from coast to coast accompanied by her Boxer dog, Country Boy, and how such adventures fit into the rest of life. Like Volume One, it is formatted for easy reading.