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Wagon Travelers

Note - As of 1/6/12, the only wagon travelers that are moving now and can be tracked on the internet are Mark & Deb Harris, & Lee the Horselogger.

www.riverearth.com - describes the adventures of Bernie Harberts - Bernie is a fellow adventurer, writer and documentary film producer. He has spent the past 11 years sailing a boat solo around the world, traveling muleback across the USA (East to West) and crossing the US North to South, while following the ancient inland sea with a wagon pulled by a mule named “Polly”. His last adventure was around Tasmania. Bernie is currently dreaming up his next trip.

Mark and Deb’s Blog - Journey for Jesus - This is the blog for Mark and Deb Harris, who are traveling around the U.S. in a wagon pulled by two big Belgians.  As of 1/12, they are on the road, in Tennessee, and are still traveling south from Michigan. Their travels are well-blogged and very pleasant to follow

www.leehorselogger.com Lee (the horselogger) is a long time wagon traveler in the United States.  The site is very good and chronicles Lee’s travels from Montana to Boston in 2006/2007, his travels to California; and now back to the east coast.  Lee’s wagon is pulled by three Suffolk Punch horses.  Use the guestbook or facebook to track his travels.

www.rondakotah.com is the site for Ron (Dakotah), who is undoubtedly, the longest standing, and widest traveled teamster of modern time. In more then 25 years, Dakotah has driven a wagon and team of horses more then 55,000 miles - mostly in the American West.  Ron has now settled in New Mexico.

www.twomulesandawagon.com This site is now inactive. Track John’s adventures by going to Facebook and searching for his name. Good friend John McComsey has pulled out from Henry, TN for Phoenix, AZ with two mules pulling a wagon and a supply trailer.  John recently completed this amazing journey. This is a very good website that I highly recommend.

www.slow-express-journey.com is the website for my very good friends, John and Thea Verhoeckx.  They are a Dutch couple who have spent the last year and a half traveling around Europe in a Caravan, pulled by two Haflinger mares.  This is a very good site and very interesting story. I highly recommend their E-Book, available on the site.  Lately John and Thea had a bad wreck with their wagon in the Chezch Republic.  As of November of 2011, John and Thea have settled back into a normal lifestyle for a while.  But, I bet they’ll be back!

Bob Dalrymple and Kathy Neal - can be tracked by going to Facebook and searching for their page - Slow Road Travel. There are currently in Oklahoma, and plan on heading to Arizona with their 5 painted draft mares.

Ernie Bessette- On the road soon - traveling from Florida to New York state with a wagon pulled by two Percherons.

www.thelongridersguild.com describes and has links to several other wagon travellers.

Draft Horses and Draft Horse Farming

www.smallfarmersjournal.com The Small Farmers Journal is a quarterly magazine that is probably the best publication you can get if you are interested in farming with or just working with draft horses.

www.ruralheritage.com Very good online resource for draft horses and draft horse farming. This site has a very good Link page to draft horse related websites.