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Stuck & Alone
PHOTOS COURTESY OF LAUREN SARGENT
“I can’t think of a more helpless feeling than standing there in the dark, a thousand miles from home and not being able to get my three horses to safety,” writes USRider Member Lauren Sargent. “Then I remembered my USRider membership!” Shown is Sargent’s horse Salty Dog.
This lone traveler was stuck on the road with her three horses. USRider sent help immediately. By Lauren Sargent
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first heard about USRider when I stopped overnight at a horse hostelry near Redding, California, en route from my home in Oregon to the ranch in Blythe, California, where I spend my winters. I thought USRider sounded like a wonderful program, especially for someone like me who often travels alone with three horses, so I signed up.
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Out of Fuel I completely forgot about my coverage until almost a year later when I was again traveling from Oregon to Southern California with my three Missouri Fox Trotters, Boots, Salty Dog, and Sunny. I try to plan my trips so that I’m not on the road more than five or six hours per day. On the last day of this trip, I’d planned to get an early Fall 2021
