Getting There

Tiny Roads

On the way to wide open moors we drive through forested countryside. Hedges, ivy covered walls, no shoulders, curves you can’t see around, one-lane stone bridges, passing vehicles that don’t slow down or move over on those tiny roads. That was the drive to Princeton in the National Park of Dartmoor. But we also saw sheep, lots of free-roaming sheep. And ponies, herds of free roaming ponies. They have been there since about 2000 BC. The Romans used them for chariot horses. The native breed is solid colored, but much outside blood has been introduced over the centuries, so pinto, and Shetland-sized ponies, and touches of Arab blood are evident.