The Relais & Chateaux of Ranches*
It’s that time of year when our social media feeds swell with images of friends on vacation. Mykonos! Ibiza! Tulum! Basically, anywhere with a beach. While we have an exceptionally soft spot for summers on the Mediterranean (France and Italy, in particular), we Western gals...
Help Some Sisters Out: The First Ever OR Reader Survey
Nearly a year ago, Outside Rein was but a twinkle in our eyes (that was sparked by a particularly rigorous riding lesson in which, “More outside rein!” was heard on a steady rotation). After several declarations of, “we really should do this!” followed by months of development (a.k.a. an endless discussion of incredibly tedious things like pixels and adverbs)...
Pilgrimage Jams: Tune Up Your Weekend Playlist
Last September the OR team decided to #makethepilgrimage to Franklin, Tennessee, a small town outside Nashville. Franklin is in the heart of horse country, and is the home of The Pilgrimage Festival, a two-day event that includes musical acts from various genres...
Hakuna Matata: A Stress-Free Guide to Safari on Horseback
“Shall we have a trot?” your guide asks rhetorically, as he urges his horse into a faster gait. Within seconds, the entire tour group is galloping across the Kenyan savannah. A tower of giraffes is startled by the commotion, and begins to run along side of the herd...
Small Town Spotlight: Aiken, South Carolina
Among the cluster of hot spots that welcome chill-averse snowbirds this time of year exists one horse-friendly community that is often overlooked despite its turn-of-the-Century designation as the official Winter Colony.
A Bag That Can Do Both
Recently, the OR team arrived at LaGuardia airport to catch a flight for a quick thirty-six hour trip. Although we both carried the same indispensible handbag that accompanies us everywhere, one of us...
Good Vibrations
Despite risking the unintentional, high-velocity dismount nearly every day, at Outside Rein we completely buy into the idea that our bodies are temples, and we treat them accordingly...
Daycation: Upstate in Autumn
If you’re a resident of New York City, you might suffer from an affliction that is quite common among your peers: a general reluctance to travel outside of the five boroughs (a.k.a. laziness). We get it. We’ve been there...
Dry Balls and a Stiff Drink
You know that feeling of surprising delight you get when browsing a random shop and stumbling upon a clever gift for someone on your list? We do, too. And in our version it happened after spotting a...
Franklin, We Give A Damn
Like New York and Los Angeles, Nashville is known for an abundance of superstars, and while its celebrities are generally the steel-toed, Stetson-topped type, the city boasts far fewer gun-racks and jacked-up Chevrolets than...
Stop Callin’, Stop Callin’, I’m Kinda Busy
The average smartphone wielding ‘murican checks his/her cell phone 46 times per day. Suddenly hoping you’re below average? There’s an app for that. Many of the applications on our phones are designed to cause...
Friday Night at the Library
Picture this: it’s a Friday night in New York City, and there’s plenty of available on-street parking. The calendar still reads August, which means anyone who’s anyone is in Mykonos or Montauk...