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Handsome rancher in his early fifties with silver hair, a short silver beard and blue eyes standing beside a small Mongolian horse on the vast green steppe at golden hour

I Entered the Longest Horse Race on Earth at 52 Years Old: 1,000 Kilometers Across Mongolia on 25 Half-Wild Horses. On Day Six, I Had to Choose Between Winning and a Stranger

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It’s called the hardest horse race in the world. Ten days, a thousand kilometers of Mongolian steppe, twenty-five different half-wild horses, and no roads. I’d spent my whole life on horseback in Nebraska, and I thought that was enough. By day three, I knew it wasn’t.

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Handsome widower in his late fifties with thick silver hair, a short silver beard and kind gray eyes standing on the platform at Chicago Union Station beside a silver passenger train at golden hour

On the Train From Chicago to San Francisco, the Woman in the Seat Next to Me Was Taking the Same Trip My Late Wife and I Planned for 30 Years and Never Took. She Was Doing It for the Same Reason

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For thirty years, my wife and I talked about taking the California Zephyr. Fifty-one hours across America, through the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. We kept waiting for the right time. She died in February. In September, I bought one ticket. The woman in the seat beside me had bought one, too.

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