FEATURE: Cowboy Vacation

NEAR KYLE, SK – Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I obviously suggested we take the wrong one. We’ve taken a lot of road trips over the seasons producing Focus Saskatchewan, which means we’ve gotten lost a lot. There are, after all over 250,000 kilometres of roads in Saskatchewan. But I digress…

When Derek and I approached a fork in the road immediately after passing the sign to La Reata Ranch (near Kyle, SK about an hour north of Swift Current) we didn’t argue over which road to take: the one that actually looked like a road and not well, a cow trail. This one certainly had to be the right one…right?

The area around La Reata ranch is hilly prairie – an area so isolated, you can’t see any communities around. But as we soon learned (after we made our way back to the fence and the sign and the cow trail – Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference. – guests see this isolation as solitude).

As ranch boss, George Gaber put it: “It’s just the whole thing in Europe. Everyone wants to be a cowboy one time.”

Why? Well, it’s partly this ability to unplug and partly a little James Dean romance. (Gaber chose the Spanish name, La Reata, inspired by a 1956 western flick starring the iconic American movie star).

Watch our feature Cowboy Vacation on Focus Saskatchewan October 3rd and 4th at 6:30pm on Global News.