Rural/Farm Life

Maybe not so much just ON a horse. I've spent my life going up and down, through gullies, crossing water, over downed trees, over rock, through sand, etc.; you don't trot through all of that, but a horse can patiently pick it's way through quite a bit. I try to stay on trails when on public land, since going off trail can cave in burrows and otherwise disrupt wildlife. Sometimes, when deer trails end up going under branches way too low for a horse to duck under, we are off-trail.

Where I live now is a semi-rural area being overtaken by suburban sprawl. Ranching and timber land. There are still large areas of small ranches, interspersed with large tracts of blm and national forests; the 7 miles between towns and cities still travel through mostly open land.