Alison Gieschen spent thirty years on a farm, raising horses, raising kids, living in a house her husband Dan built by hand. Then they sold all of it, the furniture, the horses, the house, and moved onto a 43-foot sailboat named Equus to sail around the world.

This is the conversation about what that costs and what it gives back. Alison takes Stan back to the last night in the farmhouse, into the Atlantic storm that left her with PTSD, and to the friend whose question ("do you know how lucky you are?") put her back on the water. From a tiny island in the Marquesas, she has been watching America from the outside since 2017.

Along the way: what 50 countries taught her about freedom versus security, the poverty she found in Cape Verde, the Chinese fishing fleets killing the ocean she now calls home, and the novel she wrote where horses sit in judgment of the human race. And the question Stan asks every guest: what is America to you?

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