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Did Anyone Find My Tumbleweed Message?

Published December 15, 2020

“Did you ever hear back from the tumbleweeds you launched?” I get that question a lot, especially from folks that have watched the Lost Sea Expedition, the Public TV series about my mule voyage across America. Stream the Lost Sea Expedition free on YouTube.

Bernie Harberts launching an orange tumbleweed with a message from his covered wagon outside Keyes, Oklahoma, on the Lost Sea Expedition.
Mule Polly and me launching a tumbleweed from the Lost Sea Expedition covered wagon (outside Keyes, Oklahoma)

Okay, let me set this up for you a bit.

The Lost Sea Expedition

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No Passing. Not Even If You’re a Tumbleweed: Up to the Sacramento Mountains

Published December 28, 2004

“No Passing Lane” the yellow sign reads and the tumble weeds take heed. They’re piled against the steel legs, slammed to a halt from a run.

Others won’t mind. They skip and bound across Highway 82 and regroup along the lee-ward wire fence. Russian Thistle, or tumbleweed, is about the only traffic out here on the plain leading to the foot of the Sacramento Mountains.

No Passing Zone sign on Highway 82 with tumbleweeds piled against it at the foot of the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, 2005
No passing. Not even if you’re a tumbleweed.

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