Surviving Modernity: Dude Ranches

There is a great race that is constantly being run. People always want the newest and fastest things in the world, and they won‘t be satisfied until they have it all. There isn’t one person who caused this phenomenal obsession with nuance. We know we have the power to change the looks of tomorrow by simply experimenting with knowledge today. In this day and age, the more exotic the location you travel to, and the more recently your cell phone came out into the market, and the more technological your job is, the more fascinating you are. People have a fixation with new, with fast, and with shiny. But what about the original form of excitement in America? What about the Wild West and catching crooks by horseback and discovering new land? It doesn’t seem like people are interested in this sort of fun anymore, and places like Dude ranches that keep that fun alive are becoming less talked about.

The reasons behind the slowly dying interest in the ranches are rather contrived when you think about it. Not everyone can just take off for a weekend on a ranch, or at least they tell themselves that they can’t, and so they never do. But no matter what, some people are stubbornly convinced that a trip to the beach would do them more good than a refreshing weekend on dude ranches.

The beauty about undefined, though, is the abundance of activities. There is always more to do on a ranch than on a beach, where you can only tan or sip pina coladas, as opposed to wrangling a bull or learning to ride horseback. And a trip to a ranch could do more wonders than tanning on an island. The physical activity you do on a ranch can benefit your heart and your mind alike. Also, an expensive trip to a beach, hotels and restaurants included, could rack up to be much more expensive than a weekend at a ranch, where the meals and beds and activities are all at the same place. Anyone looking for a path less walked and a little intuition will find themselves at the ranch.

But still people do not always like the idea of getting their hands dirty. But think about it this way, when was the last time you preferred having a conference call instead of feeding a horse a carrot?