Welcome to the official Grapevine Canyon Ranch Blog.  Here, Eve will post the latest news from the ranch and we have added some extra goodies such as recipes, and history snippets entitled “Did you know?” Enjoy and we welcome your comments and suggestions! Please e-mail Ben any time with your thoughts and ideas! Please be sure to visit the ranch site for details on specials and information on how you can plan the horse riding vacation of a lifetime!

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Going On a RideDear Friends,

Some time last year we needed to have a press release, and it occurred to me that where best to get one than from the people who come and visit Grapevine and so see it with fresh and unbiased eyes. So we had a competition, and, after quite a while, collected all the entries and picked the three winners. These will be sent to various magazines and papers with our press release kit, hopefully to good effect. However, even the ones that didn’t win were so good we thought we would publish them here, on the Grapevine blog.

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Now Sit back and relax and catch up on all that is happening at the Grapevine! 


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