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Tazewell TN

7 Sleeps

Where will I spend the night? Out here traveling across Kentucky with my mules, I rarely know. About 3 hours before sundown I start knocking on doors, asking folks where the mules and I might lay over until the next day.

Six overnight sleeping spots collage from Bernie Harberts cross-country mule ride through Kentucky and Tennessee

6 beds. 7 sleeps. I rarely know where I’ll spend the night. Could be a bed. Could be a bivy bag.

Though it’s nerve wracking looking for a place to spend the night with your mules, it’s fun looking… Continue reading →

Mule Runaway

The damn mules. I call them damn mules because recently they pulled a runner on me.

Mules Brick and Cracker picketed in pasture during cross-country mule ride through Tazewell, Tennessee

Mules Brick and Cracker: I usually find them where I last picketed them out. Usually…..

Last week I was the guest of Dan and Linda Coffey of Tazewell, TN. I picketed Brick and Cracker out in the Coffey’s pasture. During my stay, they escaped. Thanks to Dan help we tracked them down before they ran home to North Carolina.

Geneva Lynch and Dan Coffey with runaway mules Brick and Cracker caught in backyard Tazewell, Tennessee

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