#Trail rides

[amerasdreams]

I would have a farm away in the country not to hide from the world but to invite others to rest. Particularly animals and children who have been abused. A refuge. To be in nature, a real, calm space.

Also to. Have this space myself; I could be more rested here before i go out occasionally into the world to help, to travel.

And to grow some things. Raise some animals. Have a museum library butterfly garden greenhouse 😄. Some marvels like fossils...

Mostly to rescue, adopt, have a day camp perhaps where kids can come for therapy with mini horses and others

[daenerys-targaryen]

anyways take heat waves seriously. heat strokes and heat exhaustion are real. drink water. wear sunscreen. stay covered or in shaded areas if you can. pay attention to your skin - if it’s super flushed and your face is redder than usual, get under some shade and cool down IMMEDIATELY. pay attention to kids and elders too.

[hercarisntyours]

[sso-maev]

PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION

WHERE IS JORVIK?

Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.

”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.

This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.

HOW BIG IS JORVIK?

Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.

1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.

Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.

2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.

In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.

Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.

Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!

RESULTS

With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!

Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!

[lunarcrown]

Tango got them reflective cat eyes and when you’re ALREADY SCARED BC OF A HAUNTED HOUSE it can GETCHA——(also I made his blaze rods into floating UV sticks bc it’s FUNNY OK)

[radracer]

1977 Plymouth Trail Duster Top Hand

[skycowboys]

A peaceful, breezy, late summer day. Until a bug flew up Kin's nose 😂

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Plymouth Trail Duster Sport, 1980. The only SUV to carry the Plymouth marque was a badge-engineered version of the Dodge Ramcharger but unlike its sibling the Trail Duster only lasted one generation, from 1974 to 1981

[inked-up-gentleman]

His name is Gator and we're best friends

[equinesandeducation]

A gorgeous sunny ride, with horses on their best behavior ✨❤️

[dharmaart]

The best view in the world ❤

Prinsessa is a lovely Norwegian Coldblood Trotter.

[romanian-goddess]

[theruby-redmare]

My first solo trail ride. Richard was a gentleman.

October 2024

[xtrain]

H O R S E P O W E R

[menoftiktok]

Jylon Davidson | Country Boys from the bottom but we on top of shit with this

[mitzi-moo]

My favourite views are between those brown fluffy ears 🏞️