There's a song by Garth Brooks called The Cowboys Song, and there's a lyric in it that says,

He's just chasing what he really loves and what's burning in his soul, wishing to God that he'd been born a hundred years ago.

And it's talking about cowboys and, you know, feeling like you're out of place in life.

And this story by Jesse McNeil, it reminds me of that, riding a horse across America,

something that was far more doable, well, from an infrastructure point of view, probably a long time ago,

as far as, you know, traffic and whatnot and property, not being so strict. But, you know,

there are some probably benefits to having more modern capabilities and reliability on resupply and

whatnot. But this story reminds me of a lot of our

desires of wishing we could have seen the world before things were developed the way they are

or before certain areas were cleared or cut down or paved over. Because you got to remember,

humans could only go as fast as the horse for

thousands of years that was the way we got around and just up until relatively recently

we have gotten faster through automobiles and airplanes and trains so today we are throwing

the podcast back to 2021 where we sat down with

Jesse to talk about what it was like. Jesse at the time, a carpenter, a commercial fishermen,

dabbled in real estate, decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman,

and ride all the way across the U.S., from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

And he's crossed the country before on moped, bicycle, even a small airplane,

but this year he wanted to do it on a living, breathing animal named Pepper.

He goes into more detail about the story in his book on The Hoof, which is out. Obviously, it's been out for a few years now.

And even though probably one out of a million of you are ever going to do something like this,

statistically speaking, all of us dream about getting on our horse and riding out into the sunset.

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