Horseback Riding on the Beach

Melissa and I grew up riding horses together. We always dreamed of running together on the beach just like they do in the movies. We finally were able to ride on the beach in San Diego a few years ago, but the lady would not let us run the horses. In the States you sign your life away when you go horseback riding and they never let you go very fast or even get out of single file line. I guess there's just so much liability that goes into it.

Well, not here in Costa Rica!

Melissa lined up a horseback riding tour for us through a guy named Cowboy Diego. He was a legit cowboy who owned a few horses and you just paid him to take you on a 2 hour ride to the beach. Emma went to a horse camp once so we figured she knew how to ride well enough.

We showed up (after getting turned around many times), he handed each of us a horse, and we were off. Emma was a bit rusty on how to ride so that was making me a bit nervous. Diego finally hooked a rope to her horse for a little bit until she got comfortable. Then we were turned loose to do whatever.


We ran up a hill to a house with a beautiful view of the beach

Emma and her horse named Rain

Melissa's horse named Sunset

And my horse named Cinderella...along with Cowboy Diego



And yes, we galloped together on the beach! Diego let us do whatever we wanted. I told Emma to soak up the experience because this was definitely once in a lifetime. We rode the horses into the water, chatted, laughed, and had the best time. We're so glad Melissa came to visit and we had tons of fun with her. What a great trip.