Long Rider Sea G Rhydr bought a horse for a dollar. Then she rode him 5,000 miles across America.
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Transcript
Long Rider Sea G Rhydr bought a horse for a dollar. Then she rode him 5,000 miles across America.
Listen to the Travel Grit podcast episode here.
TranscriptSea G Rhydr is planning a covered wagon journey across America with a team of Welsh ponies and her corgi, Thick. This is the transcript of a conversation we had recently.

Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage.
– Arthur Ransome, from Racundra’s First Cruise, 1923




Listen to Hugo’ Vihlen’s extraordinary story here on the Travel Grit podcast.


By Tom Sites / #77 Great / Great American Horse Race 1976 (Curtis Lewis / Dennis Underwood photo)
“That night, I dreamed of a dancing horse. The next day, I went back and bought him. I named him Jose Dante.”
(more…)In every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached,
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