Pet Artist Connie Moses has published some gorgeous photos here and here of carriages and horses in Acadia National Park in Maine.

Our yearly horse vacation in Acadia National Park Maine was unusual in many ways. We have enjoyed the carriage roads in the Park for the last 14 years with our horses stalled at Wildwood Stables and us camping on the Wildwood grounds.Anyone who visits Acadia and the Bar Harbor area will appreciate its beauty and unique ocean panorama from Mr. Rockefeller’s 57 miles of carriage roads, Cadillac Mountain, and the several other peaks of Mount Desert Island. Read it all.

Oh, that looks like a fabulous time. Especially with the many miles of carriage roads. It's hard to imagine a day without seeing automobile traffic in this world, isn't it?

We took a week-long vacation in the Pecos mountains with our children several years ago when they were 5 and 6. Packing up two little children and a trailer load of horses for a week is exhausting, but once we got up there it was one of the most relaxing and invigorating weeks I've ever had. It was funny how all of the horse folks camping out at the Jack's Creek base camp in their trailers were sound asleep in their beds the moment the sun went down. That's what days filled with mountain air and horses will do to you!

Unfortunately, Acadia National Park is too long of a haul from here. But I sure enjoyed it vicariously.