...the desert in the winter...

...means incredible nights with friends and their horses...BBQ artists are showing off their talent...and a promise of another stunning trail ride in the Borrego Anza mountains. Remember that Wings Horse Transport has been taking groups of horsepeople to the desert for long weekends and incredible trails for 20 years...you don't need a big truck and horse trailer to enjoy horse-camping with lots of friends because Wings makes all that a breeze. We can gather all your horses on take-off day and deliver them to campground of choice...and at the end of the weekend, we'll come pick your horses up and take them home safe and sound. Letting Wings handle the horse stuff allows you to concentrate on the fun stuff and get a fast start for the weekend...email us at contact@wingshorsetransport for the details, reservations, and campgrounds and we'll help you plan the horse-trip of a lifetime...

With a couple quiet days at the ranch with our horses and loved ones

...after a 12 day loop picking up and delivering horses all up the West Coast, Oregon, Idaho...down to New Mexico through the Pecos to Texas and back home for the holiday...Mitch and I are sitting on the tailgate of the truck swinging our boots and planning the mega-trip next week...and it's a brutal event. San Diego to Florida on the 27th with 2 full rigs...deliver all the horses there and heading to JFK N.Y. to pick up some Icelandics for Sunland Ranch...then send 1 full truck back by the South the other powering to the North for picks and drops all the way to California...for around 18K miles in 3 weeks. One actual workday left to have all the maintenance done on two trucks and two horse trailers...new tires and balance/oil and filters/full chassis lubes on the trucks and bearings in the trailers...the sheer lateral stress of 10,000lbs of horses in each trailer...winding around mountain passes...turns original equipment Japanese bearings to filings and mush...so Mitch's preemptive discipline is to put $1000 of U.S. Steel bearings per trailer rather than being in the middle of Fargo flatlands freezing with 14 horses and the bearings coming apart like a cheap watch. I wouldn't want to send my horses across the country with a hauler who's a little short on the dollars...because the cash-call bell for maintenance and repairs rings clear and often. These horses aboard these rigs are the most precious possessions of the people who entrusted them to us...when Mitch loads these horses they're in his herd and thereby his absolute responsibility. You won't be having too many lunch dates with Donald Trump hauling horses, but if you love the smell and feel and the warm wet sweet breath of horses...and you want those horses in every living moment of your entire life...then sittin' here on this tailgate while your horses are nickering for evening feeding may be a promising occupation.