Covid Cowboys

Luisa, Pete, and their cattle dog Jill continue their ride west from Mongolia, with Covid Cowboys picking up where their first book Wanderlust left off. Covid Cowboys follows the highs and lows of their second full year on the road together from the Caucasus’s, through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany. Covid changed the game in 2020 and 2021, and will affect the way we travel and live forever. As the governments wrestle more and more freedoms from citizens, and social media spreads hate between the races and the now 64 genders, it’s hard to see much of a future for the long rider. The “right to roam” is something many nations have put an end too, with freedom camping ironically illegal in nations where entire homeless communities live under bridges.

Long riders face the same big problem all wild creatures face in the 21st century above all other man-made obstacles, and that is habitat destruction. There are just so few places left where we can ride without coming into conflict with roads, cities, farming activities, and fences. Sure, there’s the wide-open steppe of middle Asia and the expanses of northern North America, but Europe… it’s hard to go a day without crossing a road. So as a long rider, what do you do in the face of these obstacles? The same thing our kind has always done...

Cinch up and ride!