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Current Expeditions
"Some riders become involved for the
thrill of adventure, others to mark a new chapter in their lives, to promote a
charitable cause, or to explore the world without and within. The reason
is personal, the experience life-changing."
Toni Bos, author.
Equestrian travel has now mushroomed to such enormous proportions that we no longer have the luxury of putting photographs on this opening page - it would take far too long to open! But please click on the names of those whose journeys are of interest to you, and you will be taken to a page with photographs and the latest news. Information about Completed Expeditions and Planned Expeditions can be found further down the page.
Jessica Bigler has sent an update on her Long Ride: Switzerland to Russia and back!
Long Rider Ken Downey, who rode from Louisiana to Canada in 1999, is now riding across the USA.
Ed Lines, Phil Sutton, and Nick Warner are in Ecuador having just set off to ride along the Andes for over 2,000 miles to La Paz, Bolivia.
Ann Byrns is walking across the States to California, accompanied by her horse Winnie. No, she will not qualify to be a Long Rider, but her journey does come under the umbrella of equestrian travel and all the Long Riders wish her well as an equestrian "cousin.".
Bernice Ende is on her fourth Long Ride!
Noah Anderson and Sharalyn Hay have started their ride in Idaho and Montana
Thierry Posty has written from Columbia - he underwent a totally amazing experience on the equator itself!
William Brenchley and Christine Henchie have temporarily halted their journey through Africa and are in Sudan.
Guenter Wamser - who started his Long Ride in Patagonia, is now in the USA - and has met with Long Rider Silke Schneider!
Edouardo Discoli - is riding from Buenos Aires to North Africa!
Steve McCutcheon has had to pause in his journey from Delhi to Beijing, after being arrested by the Chinese police. But he hopes to complete it later this year or early next.
To read about delightful long-term wagon journeys, please click here.
To read about Long Riders making non-equestrian journeys, please click here.
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"Take charge of your life and do dangerous things." George Lucas, film maker.
Meg Carter will make an expedition around the border of Oklahoma. And Founder Member of The Guild, Janine Wilder, with more miles in the saddle than anyone, will be joining her!
Ed Anderson is completing his journey up the Pacific Crest Trail.
Tina Aguirre is planning a ride from coast to coast. Please click here to go to her Mustangs for Charity website.
The Light Cavalry Association, a group of military mounted enthusiasts, will be recreating the ride of the British Army on its retreat from Belgium to the river Marne in France in 1914.
Neale Irons has written to The Long Riders' Guild with the following request: "I would like to seek one or two companions for my horse trek across Mongolia June-August 2010." If you are interested, please contact The Guild.
Robert Fantom is about to set off on his ride to all four corners of Australia.
Kate Godfrey will shortly be setting off on a ride around Scotland.
Hans Hlawaty is planning a journey the length of the Pacific Crest Trail.
Torsten Wilhelm would like to ride from Gothenburg in Sweden to Trondheim in Norway. It is a traditional pilgrimage route, he told The Guild. He is looking for somebody to go with him: if you are interested, please email the LRG.
Jane March, who had planned to travel across the USA, wrote to say, "My long planned, just started, ride across America has just halted, for reasons beyond my control, at Harper's Ferry, WV. I am back home in Virginia looking for anyone planning a horseback ride, packing or otherwise from east to west, or otherwise, if I can get to it." If anyone would like to contact Jane, please email the LRG.
Tom Moates is planning a historic ride across the American Southwest, travelling in the hoofprints of two legendary North American Long Riders.
Bonnie Folkins, Temuujin Zemuun and Batmonkh Muntuush are planning a Long Ride in Mongolia
The Great Anatolian Ride is being planned - this will follow in the steps of the 17th century Ottoman Long Rider Evliya Çelebi
Guy Wood is planning to ride from Georgia to Montana, and is making meticulous preparations.
Kimball Foord is planning to pick up his ride where he had to leave off and complete his journey to Vancouver, BC.
Linny Kenney will be getting in the saddle in 2010 and plans to ride from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Catherine Thompson is planning a Long Ride in Canada.
Jean-Louis
Gourard, not content with riding from Paris to Moscow in the 1990s, is now
planning another ride across North Africa! For more information, please email us.
Becky Bates is planning a ride in Western Canada.
Amberly Rowles and Emma McCombe are planning a journey around France, Spain and Portugal.
Marina Moro and Carolina Vadell are planning a journey along the Chubut River in Patagonia.
Kim Nenninger is planning to ride from Toledo, Ohio to Patagonia, Arizona.
Jeff Lewis is planning to ride across Canada.
CuChullaine and Basha O'Reilly FRGS - are planning the first uninterrupted around the world equestrian journey!
Chantal Spleiss - is planning to ride across Canada within the next few years, with her two horses and a dog.
Completed Expeditions
"Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realise that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary." Anne Bancroft, actress.
John Wayne Haynes has completed his journey from Hudson, Michigan to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Well done, John!
Long Rider Ian Robinson, having survived the perils of riding across Tibet and Mongolia, has survived the even greater perils of an equestrian journey across Afghanistan.
Bernice Ende, has completed her third Long Ride!
Caitriona O'Leary has completed her ride in India - and sent us a summary of her journey.
Peter Ritz has made a ride round Germany.
Karen Ekman completed her ride through her native Sweden.
Jakki Cunningham organised another ride on Camargue horses from France's Mediterranean coast to England.
Genevieve and Kerrin Revell have completed their circumnavigation of New Zealand on horseback to raise money for CanTeen while making a documentary series.
Heinrich Tettenborn and Monika Koch - have been riding from Mongolia to Austria!
April Nabholz and Dana Szegedy have completed the first month of their ride through Montana, Idaho and Oregon.
Julian Phillips and Lucinda Munchhausen have had to halt their ride to Santiago de Compostelle.
Couy Griffin has completed his ride from San Francisco to Jerusalem.
Renate Larssen has completed her ride from Syria to Sweden and sent us a very moving thoughts about her journey.
Jessica Bigler has completed her ride - for the time being.
André Fischer has completed his Long Ride in South America.
Erin Zweiner has been forced to halt her ride up the Continental Divide trail.
Tim Cope has finished his journey from Mongolia to Hungary.
Robin and Louella Hanbury-Tenison have finished their journey through Albania.
Vyv and Elsa Wood-Gee have completed their ride from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Antoinetta Spizzo and Dario Masarotti have returned to their home in Italy from their Long Ride to Moscow!
Andi Mills and Edie New, "The Carolina
Trekkers", have completed their Long Ride.
Grant Nicolle has
completed his ride the length of
Britain, from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Peter Ritz has just completed his 3,000 kilometre ride around
Germany.
Hubie MacDermott has finished his Long Ride in Argentina
- and has sent The Guild more fabulous photos.
Kimball Foord has ridden from Guelph, Ontario to Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Hans
Martens and Paul van Rooyen have completed their ride from the south of France to the
Netherlands.
Long Rider
Mefo Phillips, having made a journey from Canterbury to Santiago di
Compostela in 2002, has just completed her Long Ride from Canterbury
to Rome!
Babette Gallard and Paul Chin, who rode from their home
in France to Santiago in 2005, are now back home after their journey to Rome!
Click here to read about Babette's fascinating book about their Long Ride
to Santiago.
Klarien Klingen has just completed her journey
from Portugal
to the Netherlands.
Margriet
Dijkstra and Jeannette van den Eng have just completed their ride from Nijmegen in the
Netherlands to Santiago di Compostela. They met up with Hans
Martens and Paul van Rooven (below) who are riding in the opposite
direction!
Doc Mishler completed an extended journey across
the United States, riding from Montana to Texas to Washington DC.
Jayme Feary has completed his ride along the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico.
Adam and
Jeremiah have ridden from Colorado to Arizona and back.
Julie
Broome and her daughters have just finished riding the Tasmanian Trail!
Louis Meunier's journey across Afghanistan ended
when he nearly died!
Linda Losey has finished her ride across the United States!
Howard Wooldridge
FRGS
- has completed his second ride across the United States!
Mary Howe and her
daughter, Hester, have finished their ride.
Dario Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo, Italian veterans of riding in Europe, have returned home from their journey to the Black Sea!
Harry and Lisa Adshead have completed their ride from Wales to Jordan!
Babette
Gallard and Paul Chinn have completed their ride from Le Puy en Velay
in France to Santiago de Compostela!
Bernice Ende has completed her journey from Trego, Montana to
Albuquerque, New Mexico!
Stan Perdue - has completed his ride from Georgia to Arizona
Mikael Strandberg has completed his long, dangerous and arduous journey across Siberia.
David and Arleene Foster have completed a journey along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Eduardo Caporale has finished a wonderful journey in Argentina.
Bernie Harberts, his mule Woody and pack-pony Magnolia completed their journey across the United States.
Edouard Chautard and Carine Thomas have finished their Long Ride - Down Australia's Bicentennial National Trail - and been given an unexpected surprise!
Al Williams - completed his ride from Windsor Ontario to Niagara Falls.
Steven O'Connor - the first Irish Member of The Guild - was unable to complete his journey in Ireland as planned.
Penny Turner has completed a thousand-mile equestrian journey through Greece.
Magali Pavin set off to ride from France to China and back again. We have not heard from her for months, and assume her journey must have been completed.
Keith Clark's two-year ride in South America is over - for the time being, at least!
Esther Stein and Horst Hausleitner have survived (just) their journey from Southern Africa to Kenya!
Marie Denkens and Renzo Martens have finished their ride from Salta to Mendoza.
Michael Muir and Cindy Goff completed their journey retracing John Muir's route from Louisville, Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico.
Tracey Elliot-Reep has completed her ride along the length of Great Britain.
Antonietta Spizzo and Dario Masarotti rode from their home in Italy to Poland and back.
Howard Wooldridge completed his ride across the United States. He is now riding back again!
Garry Stauber made a ride along the length of California.
Carol Barrett and Lesley Channon were trying to make the first modern from Bath to Eastbourne - and back - in England when Carol had a terrible accident.
Dan Phegan, Ian James, Yola Cox and Colin Mitchell completed their ride from Darwin to Corryong in Australia.
Marie-Emmanuelle Tugler and Marc Witz completed their South American adventure.
Jennifer Delaney made a ride round England, following in the footsteps of Celia Fiennes' Great Journey.
Mary Pagnamenta answered New Zealand's call to adventure!
Howard Saether and Janja Kovačič rode from Uruguay to Bolivia.
Georges Baudraz and Sylviane Gold were forced to halt their journey from France towards Spain.
Ray Everitt completed a ride from his home in the South of France to the Swiss city of Berne.
Mike Winter had to postpone his ride across the United States, from Madison, Virginia, to Portland, Oregon.
Philippe Rustenholz completed a ride in South America.
Saskia Machaczek finished her ride through Argentina.
Saan Ecker, Pam Brookman and Angie Grusauskas finished a ride along Australia's Bicentennial National Trail.
Laura Bougault rode alone from South Africa to Malawi in 2001-2002.
Katherine Boone rode across Spain during the summer of 2001.
Eduard Chautard and Carine Thomas made the first recorded ride around the island of New Caledonia in late 2001.
Tim Myers, Gary Conger, Robert Malone and Fred Bell finished their ride from Oklahoma to New York.
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