Author and adventurer Bernie Harberts was born in Seattle, Washington in 1968. Thirty years later, he set out to sail alone around the world in his steel cutter “Sea Bird”. When he returned in 2003, he decided that equine travel made more sense. So he traded his boat in for a mule and pony. With Woody and Maggie, from 2004 to 2005, he traveled from Oriental, North Carolina to San Diego, California.
A few years later, he struck off across American the other way – again by mule. In 2008 he and his mule Polly completed this 13-month wagon voyage from Canada to Mexico. During this trek, he documented the marine fossils of Western Interior Seaway, the great inland sea that covered the Great Plains millions of years ago.
His latest voyage was a half year trip around Tasmania on a ten-dollar bike. Underway, he interviewed Tasmanians about things Tassie – from devils, leaches and mutton birds to whale boats.
A summa cum laude graduate of NC State University, Bernie is a good writer, a fair horseman and a lousy judge of distance. When not traveling with a boat, bike or mule, he resides in North Carolina.
