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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 752: Riding a Horse Across America - Jesse McNeil

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Horseback Riding: Jesse McNeil Rides Horse Coast-to-Coast US – 3800-Mile Pacific to Atlantic with Untrained Tennessee Walking Horse Pepper, 8-Month Oregon to New Hampshire Journey. From JesseMcNeil.com:

“At 37, Jesse McNeil—at times carpenter, commercial fisherman, dabbler in real estate—decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman, and ride all the way across the United States, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

A fiercely independent traveler, Jesse had navigated previous coast-to-coast trips—solo journeys by moped, bicycle, and small airplane. This time, however, he had a partner: a five-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse named Pepper. An inexperienced horseman with an equally inexperienced mount, Jesse would quickly discover the immense challenges of his new undertaking. Over the course of eight months and fourteen states—beginning in Oregon and ending on a beach in New Hampshire—he would be tested many times over as he learned not only what it took to keep Pepper safe and healthy, but the true value of qualities that he had once easily dismissed: patience and companionship.

The generosity of strangers, from helpful ranchers and storekeepers to suburban families, shaped the pair’s journey east. And while at some points the miles didn’t unfold as Jesse hoped, others yielded unexpected events that changed his perspective—and quite possibly, his future. Written with honesty, grit, and grace, On the Hoof captures an arduous voyage that broke a man down and built him back up, with the help of one special horse.”

To find out more about Jesse and his book, On the Hoof, which will be available on Aug 5th, go to onthehoofbook.com. 

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So I took her down to the beach, like, let's walk around.

0:02.5

And we walked 100 feet onto the beach.

0:04.7

And right then I turned her at the whole affair had flipped around on her and was hanging upside down under her belly.

0:11.9

And I'm looking at her, thinking she got to freak out, you know, and she's just looking at me like, what are you doing?

0:33.5

Hey, folks. Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

0:35.5

I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

0:37.1

Today's episode, I'm pretty

0:38.4

excited about, you know, we featured a lot of people who have gone across the U.S., coast to coast

0:44.0

across the U.S. in different mediums. I think we've had someone walking, tons of people biking.

0:49.9

You know, people, of course, have driven, drive across the coast all the time. We've had all kinds of different mediums.

0:57.4

We've had skateboarding, rollerblading, you know, touring, that is.

1:00.9

I just love the aspect of doing a journey across America, across, you know, coast to coast.

1:08.7

There's something so definitive about that, something so complete about that,

1:13.4

whether that's the coast of, you know, going across the continent of Africa or Australia has

1:18.0

a really good coast to coast experience. Canada, of course, South America, you can. But,

1:24.3

you know, going across the U.S., it's so, for us here in the States, it's an amazing

1:29.4

experience because the land is so different and it's so vast. It changes so much. There's so many

1:35.8

different phases of a coast-to-coast trip in the U.S. that I just love people, you know,

1:41.1

talking to people who have done that experience through different mediums. But today's something new. We're talking to someone who has taken a horse from coast to

1:48.2

coast, literally rode a horse, something that I think would be even harder to do than a lot of other

1:55.1

mediums. But Jesse here has not only ridden a horse across the U.S. It started taking a moped,

2:00.7

then he did a bicycle. He's

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