Easy riding with the Wild Bunch

Got an invite Monday to take a local ride with some big bike boys. They said it was going to be an easy ride. Called up a friend and yesterday the 4 of us met at the staging area about 40 minutes away.
My friend, Danny, and the other two are long time riders and racers of big bikes.
Needless to say, when they say "easy", they mean they are not going to go all out full throttle the whole run. Now I KNOW after the ride.
We did a 54 mile loop in an area that is familiar from other rides. Took many new connections and trails that proved to be quite challenging and beautiful.
The weather was perfect as were the trail conditions. Very little dust and no mud to speak of.
Everywhere was green with a sprinkling of flowers here and there.
Some very steep climbs with fun baby heads spread around that constantly tried to throw us to the ground.
Later in the ride, we came across a small group of wild horses. Got off the bike and walked up a smal hill to see what they would do. They were curious and trotted over to me. Kept getting closer and closer. Maybe 30 feet was as close as they would come. What a treat.
We slowly went to the rise where we saw them and just below was a massive heard of wild horses. Have never seen this many all gathered up. They slowly moved on after seeing us coming down the trail that headed towards them.
Word of Warning, be Very careful accepting to go for a ride with these high performance bike boys. Their slow day easy rides are something to reckon with.
Overall, a very fun day with great riders and a good time.
Did see one slitherer on the road. Fortunately just a gopher snake.