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🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I've traveled from Atlantic to Pacific with a mule in a pony and then drove a wagon |
0:12.6 | from Canada to Mexico that was like 13 months and these trips are like no I'm just going |
0:18.8 | to set out and see what happens. |
0:22.0 | This is Bernie Harberts and traveling long distances in a wagon with a mule is kind |
0:27.2 | of his thing. |
0:28.7 | He's got a little yellow wagon with solar panels on top and he does these whole cross-country |
0:34.3 | trips solo. |
0:35.3 | There's no support car following along. |
0:38.0 | It's just Bernie and his mule poly, clumping along. |
0:42.8 | Just to give you how slow this trip was, it took me almost 400 days on the road to do |
0:51.4 | this trip. |
0:52.4 | So I was traveling America like 15, 20 miles a day because I was traveling slowly, just |
0:59.3 | looking at what I had in front of me. |
1:04.5 | One day back in 2008, he was traveling through the badlands in South Dakota. |
1:09.1 | I'm cruising along. |
1:10.1 | I remember so well, it was like June, it was a beautiful day, big grassland and there |
1:15.1 | was like these cottonwood trees on the road and I'm driving a mule poly and I'm always |
1:20.6 | looking for stuff because I'm traveling three miles an hour and I come around this curve |
1:26.4 | and there's a damn big ass dinosaur head like sticking its head just out of the bushes |
1:34.0 | and I'm like holy crap. |
1:39.0 | Holy crap, indeed. |
1:42.2 | I'm Dylan Therese and this is Alice Obscura. |
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