Don’t Stop Believing in Dude Ranches

March 11th, 2010 Posted in Outdoors

It seems as though people are always running after something in particular. People are hurrying always to collect the latest gadgets, own the fastest car, the sleekest cell phone, and the latest in home appliances. There isn’t one person who caused this phenomenal obsession with nuance. We know we can change tomorrow by tinkering today, and so we are always fascinated by the new because we test our minds in a new way. In this day and age, the more exotic the location you travel to, and the more recently your cell phone came out into the market, and the more technological your job is, the more fascinating you are. People have a fixation with new, with fast, and with shiny. It seems that people have forgotten the origin of excitement in American culture. When cowboys rode across the west and wrangling wild stallions was the lay of the land. It doesn’t seem like people are interested in this sort of fun anymore, and places like dude ranches that keep that fun alive are becoming less talked about.

The reasons behind the slowly dying interest in the ranches are rather contrived when you think about it. People simply don’t have time to take a weekend away from town and spend it on a ranch with eggs and bacon in the morning and stars and campfires at night. And yet it seems like people are more convinced they can’t spare any time away from the office, and if they can, they would rather be spending it on a beach or in a hotel, not on Dude ranches.

The beauty about undefined, though, is the abundance of activities. There is always more to do on a ranch than on a beach, where you can only tan or sip pina coladas, as opposed to wrangling a bull or learning to ride horseback. And a trip to a ranch could do more wonders than tanning on an island. The physical activity you do on a ranch can benefit your heart and your mind alike. Also, an expensive trip to a beach, hotels and restaurants included, could rack up to be much more expensive than a weekend at a ranch, where the meals and beds and activities are all at the same place.All wisdom points towards the direction of the ranches.

But still people do not always like the idea of getting their hands dirty. But think about it this way, when was the last time you preferred having a conference call instead of feeding a horse a carrot?