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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Creston Dinosaur

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This relic of roadside attractions in Creston, South Dakota is believed to be the first of its kind in North America READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/creston-dinosaur

Transcript

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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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