'An amazing journey'

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Spencer Anderson, riding 11-year-old Remington and packing 2-year-old Snap and 7-year-old Shoshone, rides on East B Street in McCook, Nebraska, about noon Monday. Anderson left Spring Valley, Wisconsin, on July 9, and expects to be in Wiggins, Colorado, in about two weeks. He'll be looking for ranch work when he gets there, he said. "I've always wanted to make a trip across the country," Anderson said, with the slow, shy grin of a soft-spoken cowboy. "I just took off. It's something I've always want to try." Anderson said he averages 15 to 30 miles a day, but he's not pushing the horses. "They've gotta get me where I'm going," Anderson said. "I take good care of them. They're doin' all the work. They eat better than I do," he chuckled. The group survived a vicious hail storm near Yankton, South Dakota. "I had horses going ever' which direction," he remembers. "We finally hid in under some trees." Anderson said they usually spend the night in roadside parks, rodeo arenas or grounds, fairgrounds, or a soft ditch if they can find a spot off the highway, he said. People have been great, Anderson said, explaining they laid over an extra day in Indianola because people were so generous, giving him horse feed and hay. "It's been an absolutely amazing journey," he said.

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