The saddle…

So excited about my ‘new’ saddle! (There is a longer post coming about the shifts that have led to the change of saddle, but I will save that.) When I did a bit of research about the saddle I came upon the fact that Trails End Saddles, in Des Moines Iowa, seems to have closed their doors in 1974. So, my new saddle is a vintage 50+ years old - just like me! I bought it from a you g guy in Tijuana - it had apparently been stored in his family’s bodega for the past 20 years. After a bit of leather conditioning it looks just like new! Alegría and I took it out for a ride yesterday and it was so comfortable - for both of us.