We Might Not Be Back: Animals in the Road

So sometimes large trucks can be a nuisance because there’s not always a lot of options for getting around them. This either means slowly following them or stopping to wait while they drop heavy equipment in random spots on the side of the road. This can be annoying and make already slow drives just that much slower. I’d say the average speed is around 30kph (roughly 18 mph). Then sometimes there are cows or horses milling about on the sides of or just in the middle of the road. In fairness we had similar problems with bison out west.

Our last night in Pavones was a special sort of ridiculous. We went out to dinner at a normal dinner hour. By the time we were done we had the misfortune of taking another drive in the dark. This shouldn’t have been a huge deal since we know this area and it wasn’t too terribly long of a distance. Once on the driveway to our property we saw a mommy horse and her baby. The baby horse looked like it was sort of struggling to stay on the hillside by its mom. Naturally we stopped to take pictures. I sort of worried we were scaring the baby, so we hurried up and moved on. At this point I hear what sounds like a squealing noise. In my side mirror I see this white baby horse sprinting after the car and whinnying. I thought it was just scared and confused. We stopped in front of our house and it came up to the front of our car, turned around and rammed into us. It was the most absurd thing I have ever seen. Dan started to get out of the car to see if there was damage, but then Gabby and I noticed the mom running up behind us. I yelled for Dan to get back in because I was worried we were going to get rammed again. Thankfully she ran past us and went up to her baby. It looked like she was scolding the baby. They both ran off together. Thankfully there was no damage to our car or the horse.