Ed, a daredevil, macho type, has arranged for them to spend two weeks on a real cattle drive out West.

NEWYORKER: City Slickers

Find where to pick your own blueberries and blackberries in Texas or -- for those with some horse riding experience -- join a frontier cattle drive through the mountain countryside of southwestern Alberta, Canada.

BBC: Vacationing down on the farm

In February and March, some 100 people were killed in fighting between local farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen in the eastern Taraba state over the right of the Fulani to continue to drive their cattle through an area where an increasing number of people live.

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