A runaway team of ponies, a wagon tongue bent like a humpback whale and a Corgi named Thick. Sea G Rhydr, her pony team and Thick have had an adventurous first 200 miles of their covered wagon voyage across America. I caught up with Sea inside her yellow covered wagon, the Mustard Seed.

Six weeks in and nearly 200 miles logged, Sea has already dealt with a turning radius like a school bus with no reverse, a team pole bent like a humpback whale, two jackknifes, four near-deaths in a single day and a pony named Theodore who figured out that beating up his brother Franklin was the fastest way to earn a treat. None of it stopped her. Most of it made for a better story.

Sea is also doing something beyond the wagon journey. Her YouTube channel, Who Is My Neighbor, is a field recording project: twenty-five questions, all kinds of people, one conversation at a time, trying to find some common ground in a country that seems to have forgotten how to talk to itself. She needs hosts between Union City and Sheridan, Indiana. She needs drivers for her support van. And she needs people willing to sit for a remote interview, especially those outside the rural Midwest she has been traveling through.

Her new book, Free Range Rodeo: Horseback Through the Apocalypse, is out now on Amazon. Contact Sea at sea@freerangerodeo.com or text 518-336-5596.

Guest: Sea G Rhydr — long rider, wagon traveler and author crossing America by covered wagon with a miniature horse, a Shetland pony and a Corgi named Thick.

Links: freerangerodeo.com / Free Range Rodeo: Horseback Through the Apocalypse on Amazon / Who Is My Neighbor on YouTube

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