Bernie was born in Seattle, Washington in 1968. Thirty years later, he sailed alone around the world in his steel cutter “Sea Bird”. When he got home, he decided that equine travel made more sense. So he traded his boat in for a mule and pony and from 2004 to 2005 rode them from Oriental, North Carolina to San Diego, California. In 2007 Bernie began his latest journey, a wagon voyage from Canada to Mexico. During this trek, he is documenting the marine fossils of Western Interior Seaway, the great inland sea that covered the Great Plains millions of years ago. The film footage and photos of this voyage will be featured in his latest documentary and book. He plans to complete the Lost Sea Expedition in Mexico in 2009.
A summa cum laude graduate of NC State University, Bernie is a good writer, a fair horseman and a lousy judge of distance.
When he is not living in a tipi, boat or gypsy wagon, he resides in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
