In an attempt to both fund future rides, as well as inspire and educate other riders, Pete and Luisa share their adventures on the road in both print and on YouTube. They talk about the good times; but also focus on a side of long riding people don’t like to talk about… and that’s the tears, the fights, the falls, and the heartbreaks. Long riding is horrifically hard; and it needs to be told how it is, nothing more, nothing less… just honest servings of how life on the road really is, and the many amazing rewards that come with the hardships. Their stories aren’t “Instagram perfect”, seen with a filter and touch ups, and as a result they are at times upsetting, and will often force those that invest in these stories to challenge the way they think about life, love, and their preconceived views of other cultures and ways of life.
Books, & first documentary film.
Our documentary - “The Jilli Dog Gang”.
"The Jilli Dog Gang captures our horseback travel from Mongolia to Germany, and the further adventure we had in the European Alps after we married in 2022. We began as just two strangers; a dreamer and a drunk that rode west and by some miracle didn't die. We made every mistake possible as we failed time and time again, but we made it. We found love, disaster, disappointment, and at every point found new ways to fail in the pursuit of our dreams. But… we did it. And when the time came to tell our story, so many promised so much or wanted to help direct the telling of our story; but they were all just talk. In the end, just as we lived it, Lu and I just shared it as raw and messy as we lived it. The sound quality could be better, so could the filming, but who cares. This is us, and it is as honest as it could be told.” - Pete Breidahl.
You can watch “The Jilli Dog Gang” for free on YouTube.
BOOKS -
BOOKS -
You can find all of our books on Amazon, and they are available all over the world at any time. Be aware that you might need to change to the specific Amazon site for your country.
Horseback Long Riding Explained
A modern guide of living self-contained on horseback
This book contains universal formulas and facts in a simple, blunt, and unapologetic guide for those that wish to venture into the wilds on horseback. Long riding is hard, and this book tells it how it is and contains contribution by other long riders and horseman.
“The best resource of its kind, born of hardship and failures that could have been avoided.”
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Pete’s journey as a long rider began in 2018, and has taken him around 15,000km across well over 20 countries. Everything he was told by so called “long riders” before beginning his journey turned out to be either wrong, second hand information, or completely fabricated. Having failed at almost every aspect of long riding, Pete has spent years reflecting, evolving, and educating himself as to how to long ride ethically. But he is the first to admit he doesn’t have all the answers, and has only his own experiences to use as a reference in advising others and improving the way he rides. As a result, he has reached out to GENUINE long riders whose varied and unique experiences can be used alongside his own to educate others. It contains quantifiable data anyone planning a long ride can use to equip themselves for success, rather than repeat others mistakes.
The adventures so far…
Wanderlust
The twists and turns that led a young woman and her faithful dog to ride across Asia with a complete stranger are complex, and not far off the script of a hastily slapped together sitcom.
This Book covers the adventure from Mongolia to Germany, and how their crazy lives came together.
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Pete and Luisa could not be more opposite; a wild and obnoxious Australian hunter with a dark past and a bubbly, free spirited former vegan and trained vegan chef from Bavaria. United by their love of horses and dogs, they set off unprepared, under-equipped and way out of their depth just days after a chance meeting in a Mongolian park. It's a journey full of personal failures and triumphs; romance, and dreams shattered, lost, re-claimed and rebuilt only to fall apart once more. We hope these stories both inspire and educate others that dream of doing something they can look back on and smile about in years to come... smile knowing they did something reckless, beautiful and inspiring; and that even in failure, there can be success. This is a book written by a dreamer and a drunk, who's ambitions exceeded their abilities to such a degree... magic happened daily amid the chaos.
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.
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Covid changed the game, and will affect the way we travel and live forever. 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. 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!
The Horseback Honeymoon
After 780 days travelling from Mongolia to Germany on horseback, Luísa Mayr and her partner Pete Breidahl arrived in Memmingen Bavaria in October of 2021. The Horseback Honeymoon is an honest reflection on both failure, and success during a 4 month, 2,500km journey through 5 countries.
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Pete immediately proposed, and they spent a long winter preparing for both a wedding, and another long ride on their horses Marengo and Smokey. Long riding is hard, and no matter how hard you try to prepare for the unforeseen, it can still all fall apart overnight. And… it did. But a wild and free life on the road with a pair of horses and a crazy dog are worth all the struggles when magic moments present in Europe's hidden wilderness. Nights without light pollution on mountain tops, the hospitality and warmth of strangers, encounters with wolves and a chance to fall in love with each other every single day of our journey; we had these and more on our horseback honeymoon in the European Alps.
ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL YOU CAN FIND ALL OUR RIDES “AS THEY HAPPEN”.
Other books by Pete Breidahl.
The last of our kind
"The Last Of Our Kind" is perfect for a back country hut, hunting lodge, or winters night by the fire as the rain hammers down outside. It's longer than most hunting books of its kind and it's perfect as a companion for a weekend hunt or to keep you amused as you sit in a tree stand or hide for a 6 hour stint.
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The Last Of Our Kind is an interesting mix of hunting and fishing yarns, as well as hard truths, and the sum of Pete's almost 30 years' experience with a rifle in his hands. Society has become has been wrapped in cotton wool, entitled, and softened. Now the need for instant gratification without hardship has changed hunters and hunting to the point where people new to the sport bully each other like mean school girls online, safe behind their keyboads. But as little as 30 years ago, things were very different and in many parts of the world they still are. Pete tells it how "he feels" it is, and he makes no effort to spare the feelings of the new generation of hunters born and breed in comfort, and educated on the internet. Pete has withdrawn further from his peers in the west, and will remain quietly hidden in the last of the worlds rapidly vanishing wild frontiers, with his horse, dog, and rifle, hunting alongside the last of his kind.
Hominid Hunter
Pete Breidahl is a modern-day "wannabe" Indiana Jones type character whose treated much of his adult life as an adventure. The Solomon Islands, also known as the “Land That Time Forgot” hold many secrets and myths, and this book hopes to explore these as scientifically as possible without using the word "Squatchie."
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In 2008 Pete was a soldier serving as a “Peacekeeper” on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Island chain, when on a long-range patrol deep into its impenetrable jungles, Pete met a terrified young man that had never met a white man before. But he wasn’t scared by the soldiers, he feared the creature he had encountered that morning while hunting. He described a classic “Bigfoot” type creature, and after a quick google search back at base Pete soon realized that Bigfoot and “Giant” sightings on Guadalcanal were very common indeed. Pete never forgot this encounter and returned in search of the creatures as soon as he had left the military. Pete not only shares his encounters and research here, but also the tragic realities of life in the developing world and the harsh truth that these creatures, which he believes wholeheartedly exist, will be gone before they are ever documented.