Sea G Rhydr is heading through America in her tiny yellow wagon the Mustard Seed, pulled by her Shetland Theodore, her miniature horse Franklin and her Corgi Thick.
Sea G Rhydr heading up the road with her ponies Franklin and Theodore pulling the Mustard Seed. Look closely and you can see her Corgi Thick sitting next to her. (Sea G Rhydr photo)
She recently caught up with me straight from the wagon to talk about the first 200 miles of her voyage: the runaways, the wagon pole bent like a hump back whale and the field interviews she is doing with people across America.
Two ponies named Franklin and Theodore, a team pole bent like a humpback whale and a Corgi named Thick. Sea G Rhydr, her pony team and Thick have had an adventurous first 200 miles of their covered wagon voyage across America.
Twenty years ago, I (Bernie Harberts) hitched my mule Polly to a handmade wagon in Neptune, Saskatchewan and headed south. Three hundred and ninety-five days later we reached the Rio Grande at Fort Hancock, Texas. I filmed every mile of it myself — no crew, no drones, no AI. Just paper maps, two movie cameras, and a charming mule to keep me company.
The Lost Sea Expedition premiered on Rocky Mountain PBS and won the WINNIE Award at the EQUUS International Film Festival. For years the only way to watch it was chopped into four pieces to fit the broadcast format.
Today, for the first time, the full uncut feature-length version is free on YouTube.
Travel Grit: What was the first day of your Long Ride across Australia like? Gin Szagola: It felt like I was going to my own funeral, if I’m going to be completely honest. I set off with the realization that this could be it, you know, everything could go tits up. It could be a complete dumpster fire. My horse could kill me. He could kill himself. It could just be a complete disaster.
– Gin Szagola describing the first day of her ride across Australia. Listen to her interview here.
Sven Yrvind was beaten by his teachers, locked up for desertion and learned the value of books from a psychopath. Then he built a boat in his mother’s basement and sailed into legend.
Gin Szagola recently rode across southern Australia, including the brutally arid Nullarbor desert. She is the first person to travel across Australia with a single horse and no chase vehicle or support team.
Click on the player to listen to Gin’s story about riding a brumby across Australia .
In this video, Gin Szagola describes how she and her brumby Fable crossed Australia’s brutally dry Nullarbor desert without a chase crew or chase vehicle.(more…)
