Remember seeing those older movies where a city slicker goes out to the country (usually Texas) and tries and fails to ride a horse or rope a wooden calf? (It’s harder than it looks.) There’s a reason that trope was used so many times.
Sometimes you need to get out of the city and connect with some good, old fashioned ranch work. Ride a horse across the open land. Rise up early and commune with nature and the animals. Create your own fish-out-of-water movie moments.
There are plenty of places in Texas where you can live out that ranch fantasy — become a true cowboy or cowgirl at these five best ranch vacations in Texas.