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16 Animals Are Watching You: Last Day to Bid on Julia’s Pet Food Paintings
Happy Sunday morning! A guinea hen named Freezy would look good on your wall. Today’s your last chance to bid on Julia’s Pet Food paintings, and every dollar goes to a local animal shelter.
Meet Mule Polly and Watch The Lost Sea Expedition at FENCE House in Tryon
Ever squeezed into a 21-square-foot wagon that crossed America?
Come take a wagon voyage across America with mule Polly and me! On Wednesday, September 30, Polly and I are bringing the Lost Sea Expedition program to FENCE House in Tryon, North Carolina.
Come meet Polly. Squeeze into the Lost Sea Expedition wagon. Then settle in and watch The Lost Sea Expedition, the documentary about our 3,500-mile, 395-day wagon voyage across America.
Small Craft Warning: How I Repaired the Tiller I Broke Sailing in 25 Knots
The morning my tiller broke, I woke to a small craft warning on board my Nimble 24 sailboat Grit and decided to go sailing anyway.
I hoisted her tanbark sails, tied in a double reef, poked her nose into the Pamlico Sound and the second I rounded… Continue reading
REIN Fundraiser Poster for FENCE Event September 30
Join mule Polly, Julia and me on September 30 at FENCE (Foothills Equestrian Nature Center) to raise funds for REIN (Rescuing Equines in Need) Rescue. I’ll be screening the Lost Sea Expedition, the movie about my 395 day wagon voyage from Canada to Mexico with my mule Polly. Come meet Polly, check out the Lost Sea Expedition wagon and travel across America with me. This is the perfect get-away-from-the-screen-into-adventure outing for families, adventure lovers, hiking and camping enthusiasts and anyone… Continue reading
Get a Taste of Pet Food at Happy Valley Filling Station
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Note: Julia’s artist reception for Pet Foot has been rescheduled to September 2 at 5:30 pm
Join my wife Julia and me this Wednesday August 26, September 2 at 5 pm at Happy Valley Filling Station for the opening reception of Pet Food. Pet Food is a collection of 16 of Julia’s… Continue reading
Sea G Rhydr: 200 Miles, 25 Questions, Four Near-Deaths and a Pony Named Theodore
Sea G Rhydr is six weeks and 200 miles into a covered wagon voyage through America and when I asked her what she worried about that didn’t happen, she said, “Nothing!”
The list of tribulations includes a runaway, two jackknifes, a team pole bent like a humpback whale and what she describes as four near-deaths in a single day. Whew! And then there is Theodore, a Shetland… Continue reading
Julia Carpenter on Creative Spirits Unleashed Podcast
Julia Carpenter, my wife, “Equine Seer” and founder of the Two Step Way, was a guest this week on Lynne Carnes’s Creative Spirits Unleashed podcast. If you’re interested in forging stronger bonds with your horse, dog, or yes, even your spouse, family and friends, this is a must-hear interview!
Listen to Julia and Lynne on Episode 94 of the Creative Spirits podcast.
Here is how Lynne… Continue reading
50 Years Ago Today: The Great American Horse Race Began — 92 Riders, 1,966 Miles, Pure Adventure
Fifty years ago today, Memorial Day, Tom Sites and 91 other riders showed up to the starting line of the Great American Horse Race, the longest organized horse race ever held. The starting gun went off, horses walked, trotted and cantered across the starting line, and 100 days and 1,966 miles later, 54 of them arrived at the finish line in Sacramento, California.
Tom showed up with his horse Jose Dante, a $15 saddle, no crew, no trailer… Continue reading
Warwick Schiller Podcast: Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks
This spring, my wife Julia and I towed our sailboat Grit out of the barn, launched her and sailed her to Shackleford Banks, North Carolina, where we spent the next two weeks studying the wild horses that live there. We never imagined that ramble would land us on numerous podcasts, including Warwick Schiller’s Journey On podcast.
Shackleford Banks Wild Horses on Today’s Horsewoman Podcast
Earlier this spring, Julia and I spent two weeks anchored off Shackleford Banks (North Carolina) studying the wild horses that call the 9-mile uninhabited island home.
While we were at Shackleford, we appeared on Rose Cushing’s podcasts Today’s Horsewoman and Today’s Horseman.
Have a listen. You can just hear the crackling energy in our voices. We were alive to everything around us.… Continue reading
Thies Matzen: Wanderer III: Southern Ocean by the Stars | Travel Grit Podcast
My dear friends Thies Matzen and his wife Kicki Ericson have navigated their wooden sloop Wanderer III in the Southern Ocean for decades, mostly by stars and sextant. Their voyages under sail have inspired me for years, from overwintering two years on the sub-Antarctic South Georgia Island, to sailing Wanderer III to the Antarctica, the smallest traditional plank on frame boat ever to do so.
The Lost Sea Expedition — Finally, the Whole Story
Twenty years ago, I built a small wagon in my friend Mel Wyatt’s garage, hauled it and my mule Polly to Neptune, Saskatchewan, hitched Polly to the wagon and headed south. My dream was to follow the path of an ancient sea, the Western Interior Seaway, from Canada to Mexico. I’d film the whole voyage myself. That meant no crew, no drones, no AI, no cell phone and no GPS. Just some paper maps, two movie cameras, Polly, and our… Continue reading
Farewell to the Wild Ponies of Shackleford Banks
After two weeks anchored off Shackleford Banks aboard Grit, we felt like an extension of the uninhabited island. We knew the dark blue part of the channel we needed to aim for if we didn’t want to run Grit aground as we entered the anchorage. We had seen Back Sound in a range of states, from galloping with white horse waves to reflecting the full moon’s glow. We had watched the lieutenant stallion long enough to know that when… Continue reading
Shackleford Banks: The Beach That Made Me Put the Camera Down
The first two days, my wife Julia and I had just focused on observing the wild ponies of Shackleford Banks and making sure our sailboat Grit didn’t drag anchor. The whole time, we heard a low thudding coming across the island — the sound of the Atlantic Ocean crashing on the beach a half mile from where we were anchored. The third day, we walked across the island to check out the beach.
White terns chattered overhead and plunged into… Continue reading
The Sacred Maritime Forest of Shackleford Banks
My wife Julia and I had spent the afternoon observing the wild ponies on the middle part of Shackleford Banks and were following a sandy beach back to Grit, which was anchored just off the beach.
The tide was high and we came to a tangle of trees that had fallen across the beach, making a barrier between land and water.… Continue reading
