Vacation Getaways for Horses

My wife and I occasionally drive past a local estate where the owners keep some horses. There are a pair that are nearly always together, sometimes literally touching one another. We don't know anything else about them. We call them the "love horses," because they really seem to show a tenderness for each other.

We haven't seen the love horses lately. My wife and I speculated about this situation. One thought was that the horses have a second home, and they had the good sense to get away from the recent, stifling heat and humidity. It seemed like a far fetched idea, so we performed some web searching to determine if there are equine getaways.

Well, there are. One is located in Illinois, near the Mississippi River. It appears to be more relaxing for the humans than for the animals, but it's a change of pace for the horses, so we'll count that in the "vacation for horses" column. The photo shows what looks like equine nirvana in Montana's high plains. Maybe that's where our love horses are now.