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Jan & Gary Marquardt
Walkabout Station
450 Lucher Road
Willis, TX 77378
1-936-344-9194 house
1-936-344-8406 fax
E-mail:
walkaboutjan@aol.com
or
walkaboutgary@aol.com
Map:
click here
Willis Weather (Click here ...)
Nearest Hotel:
Best Western Willis
12323 Interstate 45 N
Willis, TX 77318-8327
1-936-856-1906 voice
1-936-856-0910 fax
Reservations: 1-800-780-7234
Directions from Interstate 45 - take Exit 94.
Go right on Montgomery entrance, the Best Western Willis
is located on the left, adjacent to McDonalds.
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Our love for Australia came from our
living there (Canungra, Queensland) for a little over 2½
years. Sydney, our male Greater Sulphur Crested
Cockatoo (pictured left on our yard art in El Paso, TX
... yes, it does occasionally snow in El Paso) was one of four cockatoos who came home with us when we
returned to the U.S. in 1999. We started Busy
Beaks, a small parrot toy manufacturing and distribution
company, as a result of our love for parrots and our Australian experiences. For more information on
Busy Beaks click here ... |
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Always There Are the Horses
I ride because I rode as a child when life was simpler
and somehow more complete.
Only the whiff of a clean horse is needed to remind of
days gone by.
For always there have been the horses.
I ride because of all the great horse souls who have
shared their lives with me and taught me more than I can
say. Their names and faces flash before me as old
friends.
I ride because of all the horses I shall never ride.
Those I have watched and marveled at from afar for all
their grace and beauty.
This the stuff of a child's dream, the kind that doesn't
die with time.
Always there are the horses.
I ride because the seasons call to me. Each unique in
its appeal and all quite frequently best viewed from the
back of a favorite horse.
I ride because of all things, horses are my passion.
They inspire and encourage, energize, and challenge in
ways I cannot explain to the un-initiated.
I ride because of the rush of stretching one's self just
a bit farther today than before both mind and body.
Always there are the horses.
I ride because of those briefest of spans when the
partnership comes to full promise. When the path twists and barriers fall, each footfall is
measured and balanced between the two as a dance. There
are no others ... only this moment and this single step
to ride. The memories of those times stand vivid in my mind to be
recalled with all the freshness of the day at will and
in times less grand.
But if I must choose, I ride because I have dreams yet
to live.
I ride because I have dreams yet to have and what
exactly they will be tomorrow I cannot say ...
but always there will be the horses.
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