Folks, I need to apologize for the lack of attention I have been giving the westerntrailrider.com website, forum, blog, and facebook page lately. Suffice it to say that I have been fully engaged in other pursuits recently, since I had to put Penny down.

My family will be relocating out west next summer and I have been working on several remodeling and repair projects on the house, as well as a multitude of other projects I need to get finished before the big move comes. I have repaired and sold two rental properties, finished remodeling our home, done vehicular repair/maintenance, worked on getting our lawn prepared to look good for next spring, when we will put the house on the market, and I have been engaged in several other service projects outside my family.

Not having a horse right now has actually made things easier for me, as I have been able to keep my focus on other things, but it has taken me away from the preparations for my big trip in 2015, the documentation of which is the purpose behind my Internet efforts in the first place.

I have decided not to continue to maintain the forums on the westerntrailrider.com site. It simply takes too much time. Once I get things going again, if the demand is there, I will resurrect it. My thanks to those who joined and contributed information and photos. The forum will remain on the site and members may continue to post information if they like, however I will not be doing regular maintenance on it.

I will, however, continue to make occasional posts to this page and to my blog, as items of interest come up and time allows. Please rest assured that my plans for the Mexico-to-Canada trip for 2015 have not changed. The goal for the departure date is April 1, 2015. I still intend to make most of my own gear, and, once I get relocated, will be looking at acquiring horses for the trip. You can be sure I will be posting plenty of information to the blog then.

Meanwhile, Horse Trails and Camping Across America (HTCAA) is currently setting up a website and will have a great forum. They currently have over 12,000 members in the facebook group and are growing amazingly fast. I recommend the group highly.

Thanks for your support and I hope you’ll return once I get rolling again.

Tony Henrie, westerntrailrider.com