“Just plain old foxhunting’s not sexy enough for you?”
“Well, I don’t really know now, do I? All I’ve seen is what you say isn’t the norm. And that only from a distance.”
“Tempted to hop on a horse and ride along?”
“Ummm, I don’t know about that.”
“You can’t really get the full sense of the sport just watching from the roads. You have to be in the game to really know what it’s like. I expect you’ve done some pretty risky things in your travels, faced some dangers to get to the heart of the story.”
“Oh, I’ve had some rough rides. The trip down the Orinoco to reach the Yanomamö of the sss had its hairy moments.”
“What? You’ve been down the Orinoco? That’s the river that damn near killed Theodore Roosevelt.”
“Traveling conditions had improved somewhat by the time I made the trip.”
“Ye
