Montar el caballo (to ride a horse)

One of the main reasons Eustace goes on this trip is to, like many of his adventures and experiences, is to get out there, and to live. He wants to do something exciting and new, and a horse ride seemed like just the thing to do. Eustace also did not feel like he and his brother had a strong enough bond. He wanted to get to know him better, so he invited him a long for the ride. Eustace wanted to see how hard and how fast his brother and himself, as well as the horses could go before they reached a point of sheer exaustion, and he wanted to do it by Easter, which too many people was an unthinkable idea. I thought an important part of the story was when Eustace took a different path than Judson and Susan. Eustace was much safer by traveling a long the interstate, even though it was a longer route. The canyon where Judson and Susan traveled was much shorter, but was also much more dangerous. In the end though Eustace proved to be right because the horses hooves got injured. From then on Eustace was always right, and would win any argument. Eustace broke the pact that they had made. They had promised never to separate themselves from each other on the trip.