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Cruisin' the Fireball Freeway

This week I’m pondering all the Fireball whisky bottles the mules and I are encountering on Indiana’s roadsides.

Collection of Fireball whisky bottles found on the roadside between Sulpher and Monroe City, Indiana during mule ride.

Some of the Fireball whisky bottles I’ve come across on the roads between Sulpher and Monroe City, Indiana.

Bernie Harberts riding mules Cracker and Brick on Indiana back road looking for adventure and roadside trash.

Mules Cracker, Brick and me: on the road looking for adventure and roadside trash. (Tracy Smallwood photo)

Traveling America’s back roads by mule lets me absorb life at 3 miles per hour. How the bottom of a hill is cooler than the top. How… Continue reading →

Week 6: Indiana Mule River Life

Western visions pull the mules and me toward the setting sun: piñon canyons, cut throat trout and big horn sheep. This week I encountered a highway catfish, a gravel barge and a cooling casket. Indiana is proving as colorful as the land I’m riding toward. Here are a few photos from this week on the road, Week 6 of my Mules West ramble.

Mule Cracker watching gravel barge on Ohio River outside Brandenburg, Kentucky during cross-country mule ride

Watchin’ the river go by: Cracker takes in a gravel barge as it heads up the Ohio… Continue reading →

Indiana Greetings

Bernie Harberts and his mules arriving at Indiana state line sign after crossing Ohio River from Kentucky.

Welcome to Indiana (Jack Nunn photo)

Greetings from Indiana. Mules Cracker, Brick and I have arrived in Lincoln’s other home. Funny how he was born across the Ohio River in Kentucky and now both Indiana and Kentucky fight over him.
Wonder how the above photo was taken? For that, I have to thank Pat Green and Jack Nunn. They were taking a lunch break from working at the quarry, saw the police escort I was given coming over the bridge… Continue reading →