A Week in my Life: Thursday - A Day All to Myself

Today is almost exactly like my Sunday, so I won’t go into too much detail. I wake up hungover today and slug myself and Smokey up to the horses to feed. Today, Rhiannon is cleaning all the rooms so I can take some of our "problem children" out for some exercise. Antonio’s here to help me today and although I’m glad to have the company, I’m worried that the headache I...

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A Week in my Life: Wednesday - Everyone Deserves a Day Off

Now I know what you're saying. Why on earth would I ever need a day off? A vacation? Every DAY is a vacation for me, right? Well. Yes. Mostly, you are right. I am selfish for even writing this absurd blog post. But, the work, however exotic and incredible it is on a daily basis, it's still work. And it's hard work, at that! Lots of physical labor and not a lot of "me" time. Usually this is...

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A Week in my Life: Tuesday - I get Paid to Ride Horses on the Beach!

Tuesday begins the same way as Monday, only I get to sleep in for an extra 15 minutes as we have less to do this morning. We only tack up 10 horses today, and Rachel stays home with her 4 year old daughter Charlie so Vinnie can come out with us on his bike to take pictures of the guests. By the time we’re finished tacking up today, I’m officially awake and notice that Mitch, one of the forest...

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A Week in my Life: Monday - The Reason Sunday doesn't bother me

Today my alarm started buzzing at 7:30 AM. Under any other circumstances, this is the part of the day where I would scream and hide dreading the day ahead of me and incapable of doing anything productive. But it’s a Monday, and that means we have a lot to do today to get ready for the ride as all of the saddles have to be put back together. I roll out of bed at 8 still wearing the t-shirt I wore to the bar last night and not...

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A Week in my Life: Sunday - My "Monday" in the office

Sundays for me are both the beginning and the end of my work week. This morning, at 8, I said goodbye to 8 amazing guests who I had a fantastic week riding with last week. We hugged, made promises to keep in touch via facebook and waved furiously as Andrew drove the van out of the driveway and off to the airport in Malaga. As soon as the car was out of site, Rhiannon and I exchanged the look of "here we go again" and...

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A Week in my Life

Alright guys. Whether you wanted it or not, I'm going to be bothering you with my writing again. And to kick-start off that effort, I'm going to spend a week talking about what I do on a day-to-day basis out in el campo for Los Alamos in San Ambrosio, Spain. So for the next SEVEN days I will be dissecting every aspect of my life for your pleasure (as well as mine, nostalgically). I will try and remember to link to each other day...

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And... she's back.

Ladies and gents. I have successfully allowed myself to un-burn. I've been doing nothing the past couple of weeks besides sleep, eat, mooch and generally be a nuisance to anyone in a 10 foot radius of my person.

However, I have settled in New York City. I'm feeling much better about the ability of my fingers to type and turn words into sentences. Therefore, as of today, I am back on a rigorous blogging schedule, and will be pumping out useless bits of knowledge for the forseeable future. I've got a decent amount of backlogged material from Spain and being that I am now operating on high-speed internets again (WoooT!) I am going to take advantage and upload all of my pics from España and put out my final tribute to my future home. 

Much love, as always. And thanks for sticking through all this - I owe ya one.

the view of the Empire State Bldg fr our apt

Sometimes, it just happens...

If you follow me on twitter, then you have likely already seen this PSA. But, if not, here it is.

I'm going to be taking a quick blogging hiatus. This is my last week in Spain for at least 6 months and I'm already having a bit of separation anxiety. I want to spend this week enjoying what I have here and not worrying about getting blog posts up. In addition, most of next week I'm going to be traveling and packing, so I likely won't have time to get anything up then either.

So basically, I'm saying... see you in the US.

I'll do my best to resume regular posting starting the week of October 17th.

As always, thanks so much for your patience and support and can't wait to finish telling you about all of the amazing things I've seen/done in Spain since I arrived here back in March.

Con amor y besos,

Abbey