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Merri Melde is an Idaho-based award-winning writer and photographer whose work has appeared in three books and more than two dozen national and international magazines. She’s also an avid endurance rider and Tevis Cup finisher. She blogs about her equestrian travel adventures at theequestrianvagabond.blogspot.com.

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