I have been writing the past few days from Eventing Nation’s mobile vacation command center in Topsail Island. Each year, students graduating from the University of Virginia spend the week after finals and before graduation vacationing at a beach. Surprisingly, this is known as “Beach Week.” It’s a long story, but I graduated from UVa a year or so before most of my friends, but we are celebrating their Beach Week in Topsail, NC this week.
a few of the guys playing paddle ball, perhaps the world’s most pointless sport
I was feeling a little guilty today so I spent some time driving around attempting to locate a horse or anything related to horses, but this was the closest thing I could find.
what exactly do you do with a rented horse? perhaps I should call the number
It is called Topsail Island after all, so you need a bridge
A picture as I am writing this post from the porch of our beach house. You can see the ocean in the background. If you look closely at the house on the right, you can see it is built on stilts to protect it from hurricane storm surges. All of the houses on Topsail Island are elevated above sea level by about 10 feet for this reason.
Eventing is such a tough and often heartbreaking sport that it’s important to have a life away from horses. In some sense, I owe what remains of my sanity to my many awesome non-eventing friends. Spending time with away from the horses helps me keep life in perspective and, after a few days away from the barn, reminds me how much I love my horses. As always, I have been doing a lot of thinking this week about how to keep growing and improving Eventing Nation. Now more than ever, thanks to everyone, especially our writers, for being a part of this great experiment known as Eventing Nation. Go eventing.
