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I’ve found a cute little house out in the country on about an acre. It’s not my ideal but it’s perfect for now as it’s quiet, roomy (almost too roomy since I don’t have any furniture) and best of all it was vacant and I could move in immediately so Jo could have the Jeep for checking into TBS. Thinking about it now, I’d really wish we’d checked out Fredericksburg but it’s all good. I have a lease until the end of the year and I’ll see what is happening at that time. I can’t believe I’m going to officially be in one spot for several months after my time moving around in Washington State and my long term lay over in Oregon. What a wild ride it’s been.

HorseGirlTV is going great. We are launching episode 4 “Athleticism of the Equestrian and Equine Athlete” and it’s just brilliant. I can’t wait to see the cowboy episode as Rich was wicked fun to talk with and the secondary shots we got were amazing!!! Check it out. We will “pump (clap) you up!” I love my job! www.horsegirltv.com/episode04.php

Okey. We’ve driven down Oregon and California. We’ve driven across Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and then it was just sorta a blur across the flat farm land, dairy cattle and such. We made it into Pittsburg so Jo could see Heintz stadium. I figured it would be a diversion that took us out about an hour but low and behold, we got off the freeway, pulled up to the stadium, pulled into a blocked off driveway, took photos and after handing out HorseGirlTV cards to a station wagon full of young girls asking about the trailer we were back on the road! Wow! That was TOO easy!

You’re right. It was. The tunnel we were supposed to go through was shut down and we were re-routed (along with a bagillion other vehicles on the road that hot PA day) on surface street through the most God-forsaken areas of town. We’re talking hookers and track marks here. One and a half hours later we were back on the road to Virginia. Jo got to not only see Heintz but a plethora of colorful crazy Pittsburg folks AND his dream house. South Dallas Avenue at Forbes, by the cemetary, Pittsburg, PA. Check it out when you’re in the neighborhood.

Next down into West Virginia. My goodness it’s amazingly beautiful and finally on down into Nokesville to drop off the trailer at Bluegrass Farm. Sherry and Mark were so nice as to let us park the trailer there while looking for a house. Now it’s on to finding a home and getting settled!

Holy cow! I’ve moved across the ENTIRE country. Wow! Let’s see… The list goes Texas to Oregon, Oregon to California (yes I know that’s backwards), California to Spain, Spain to Texas (because of Picollo’s surgery and lay up time), Texas to California, California to Washington (because I bought Jo, the horse), Washington to Germany (trip interrupted in Oregon) and now Oregon to Virginia. Where to next? Who knows?

Day two was filled with mountains, mountains, the occasional coal plant, antelope and more mountains. I think I’ve filled my citizen’s requirement for fast food purchases for the entire year. Yuck! I’m ready for some real food! Wyoming is a beautiful as I remember but it is rather remote and gosh it was cold for June! It was especially chilly the next morning. Burr! I couldn’t help but think of the Laramie project and as a result Jerry Wayne while we were here. One stop at the bank, one quick stop at Safeway for some “real” food, one stop at the petrol station (Ah! That infamous tank of gas!) and we were off.

You probably can’t read the sign on the tank in the pictures but it reads “For use as motor fuel only. CONTAINS LEAD.” Perhaps this is why the check engine light illuminated?

Don’t try to understand them. Just rope, throw and brand them. Soon we’ll be living high and wide! (Insert record scratch)

Ahem… it’s far to early for a digression of that sort! Apologies from The Management.

So day one and we made it to Winnemucca, Nevada. I didn’t get a good enough shot of the casino lights at night so you’ll have to make due with this road shot. I think we’ll be seeing lots more images like this over the next few days. Jo was about to kill me by the time we got out of Ashland but we’ll make it there in one piece and I was a bit distracted but a gal has lots to do before moving to the other side of the country!

I think we made pretty good time for a decent half days drive. More to follow!

So the HorseGirlTV Mystery Machine (aka my Jeep and our new cargo trailer) are ready for the journey cross country! Between my organization, Mike with Art Effects, Scott at Progressive Audio and Ronnie at Mankin Motorsports the tiny rig is ready! The trailer graphics are too cool and it’s the perfect size for hauling cross country (I think) and to take to horse shows and events this summer.

We loaded up the little rig last night. I got up semi early this morning to get a ride on Jo before hitting the road. Of course he was a prince and although we only did walk, trot and canter his collection was fabulous and oh so fun!

Virginia here we come!

It’s time again for another episode! I had a BLAST with this one and it shows! This is my favorite episode thus far. John was so much fun to work with, the content was good and the production was very witty and entertaining (Thanks Brent! You rock!). The work is really starting to come together and I can’t wait to see what HorseGirlTV will be like in another 3 months! Yahoo!

I learned my lesson though! Never again will I schedule two shoots, an episode release a mere 24 hours before I have planned to move from one side of the country to the other. Hehe!

This is all starting to happen really fast. Episode two is launched! We’ve been plying our editor extraordinaire with tasty grub worms and Caramel Frappacinos and he is just finishing up the export of our final movie file to get it down to 100MB and under for our YouTube channel then we’ll have a complete release for the second show across our official site, iTunes and YouTube. I’ve been working too hard to notice until the past few days just how many positive comments there are out there about the show and it’s absolutely fabulous. We have some great, all five star, reviews on iTunes which means a lot, we are getting YouTube subscribers, our Myspace friends list is growing and now to top it off some kind person posted to the Ultimate Dressage newsgroup a nice comment about us! THANKS to whomever “coopersmom” is as we really appreciate the link and thanks to Ultimate Dressage for having such a wicked cool place for dressage enthusiasts to network!

Please keep the feedback coming in! I can’t wait to get Episode three launched on June 1st. We are really becoming well rounded with our dressage pilot, importing horses follow-up and future release of our reining episode! Yahoo!

Also, stayed tuned as we’re planning a “the buzz” bi-monthly news segment so you’ll soon be able to watch new material on HorseGirlTV EVERY week.

So we’re almost ready to launch the complete site and i’m getting pretty darn happy about it. episode two is currently in the editing room. i’m excited to be shooting several really interesting episodes this weekend! it’s happening, slowly but surely and seems like i can see the light at the end of the tunnel this week! so if you have time, check out our pages:

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untacked-originals-horsegirltv-and-beyond-with/id252822881

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/horsegirltv

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/angeleakelly

…doesn’t always stay in Vegas as I sadly found out! A quick in and out to Las Vegas for the World Cup was awesome and polished off by an absolutley divine dinner at a restaurant not to be named at the Venetian. Post dinner we caught a limo back to the airport with a driver that was out of this world but (and this is my best guess) fit perfectly into Vegas lifestyle. It seems that his pastors partner was a multi-million dollar real estate developer in Vegas and that she did not give him a hard time about taking his fairs to strip clubs since he did get a bonus AND they have some telecommuted bible study on Thursday nights with their lead person at some University some where in the mid-West? Anyway… that was an uber-digression and you’d just had to be there to listen to this guy talk! It was a riot!

So… we get on the plane which is about 30 minutes late in departing and all get snuggled in for a quick flight back up to Medford. It is a red-eye flight after all so we’re gonna get a quick nap. I wake before landing realizing I’m locating the bag in the “seatback pocket in front of you” just to make sure I know where it is “in case” and marvel that I might actually have motion sickness on a plane. It’s never happened before I think. I must just be really tired and worn out from a quick and fast paced weekend. Long story short, we de-board, get to the car and I’m still feeling nauseous but thinking the fresh air will fix me right up. We get ALMOST back to the farm went it hits me and I MUST roll down the window and “let go” out the window WHILE the car is moving. For this I feel horrible as the side of his the car was a mess. Sorry! To shorten it even more, I get sick all night long, run a pretty high fever all the next day where Debra is so kind as to bring me meds and soup! Thanks Debra! I’m too weak to be upset about not being able to work on HorseGirlTV (the release party is the next night) and sleep through the night to wake drained but with a broken fever!

TO WRAP… It’s a new rule of thumb for me now to never eat seafood (no matter how fine dining it is) over 100 miles from the ocean! I proved the saying wrong… What happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially if your flight if followed by a meal of tasty yet probably too rare scallops!

Oh and the cute picture has nothing to do with the story! More on the World Cup to follow!

Yes. Yes. Yes. Y. E. S. Yes! It’s been months in the making but we have episode 1 of HorseGirlTV entitled, “Grooming for Anky van Grunsven: Tiffany Tyler and her developing equestrian career” and it’s pretty darn good if I must say so myself! Brent at Jackhammer Films did a fabulous job of taking our first efforts at creating one of our little mini stories and making it look neat, intelligent and even witty. We’re not officially launching the website until May 1st as I still have to finalize the database for the market listings, create the Flash version for those non-Quicktime users, submit the piece to the iTunes Music Store and pray they will add us not to mention finish a bagillion other things to polish off the site.

With that said, you can take a look at it now by pointing your browser to http://www.horsegirltv.com but remember while episode 1 IS the final cut the website itself is NOT a final draft. FYI, our releases will be at the first and fifteen of every month so we’ll regularly have new and exciting shows for you to watch! Runtime will vary but average 6-7 minutes.

Well after that digression, I’m done for the night! I still have to pack as we’re flying out to Las Vegas for the World Cup Dressage and Jumping! Should be an exciting and fun filled weekend and I’m looking forward to it! I can’t wait to watch some amazing Dressage freestyles.