Hello everybody and welcome back to my podcast, Esme's Country Live. In today's episode we have another

midweek mini pod and we're actually going to be talking about some horsey travel because normally

this time of year I normally go over to the States in the USA for the Kentucky three day event.

This year I am not there however I thought in today's podlet we would talk about my trip to

America back in 2019 now so seven years ago which is absolutely wild that was the year that

I started like I finished school and I started doing YouTube full time so I thought we would

talk about that trip because although I made like a few

different videos back in the day on that trip, I do have some stories that I've never really

talked to you guys about before. But before we begin, I just want to say a huge thank you to

the sponsor of the podcast, Red Post. Red Post is an equestrian and country store based in the

UK and they also ship all over the world,

including the States, and also talking of travel, they have so many different travel accessories

for you and your horse, so they have travel boots, travel rugs, and do you know where you can get

them? Red Post Equestrian, so go and check them out at redpost equestrian.com.uk.

Anyway, let's get in to today's episode.

So back in the day in 2019, paint the scene, I'd finished my exams, finished school.

I was 18 and we decided to do a, I was going to say a family trip.

My mum unfortunately had to work and stay at home

and also she very kindly looked after all of the animals. This was before we had Joey, before we had Duke,

before we had Fos Dogg. So back, this was when we had three donkeys, Bruno Tovey and Willow. It was also

when we had Mickey and of course Casper as well. So this was yeah, a really

long time ago. But this was I was going to say kind of like the start of my career. I would say I'd

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