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An irregular breakdown on Pleasant Street
By Michelle Berger
Belmont Citizen-Herald
Mon Jul 23, 2007, 01:46 PM EDT
Now we really know that those Belmont roads need to be paved. We also know that some lucky Pleasant Street resident will not need a lawn mower for quite some time.
At a little before 2 p.m. on Sunday, a covered wagon pulled by two Suffolk Punch horses (that go by the names of Matt and Tom) rattled down Pleasant Street.
Their cargo?
A rather gruff looking man in his early 60s, two rather large Great Pyrenees dogs, and many parcels. Then suddenly, the caravan stopped — the steering mechanism clattered to the ground, done in by the bumpy Belmont roads.
Who is this man, and why is he riding around in a covered wagon? This man is known as Lee Horse Logger … a man with quite a philosophy. Why he is riding around in a covered wagon is anyone’s guess. But, after talking to him, you get the feeling that he is doing it “just because.”
Logger started out in Montana and traveled from there through North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, on his way to Boston, in search for childhood friends — all the way in his wagon! As he says on his Web site, www.leehorselogger.com, he just wants to live the “simple life.” He is a man who lives off donations and sleeps in parking lots at night and, he managed to break down near where Monroe Street intersects with Pleasant Street.
Members of the Belmont Police Department were called to the scene direct traffic around the wagon, which was on the side of the road. Many residents gathered around, as did reporters from local television news. Someone was called to weld the broken piece back to the wagon.
The strangest part?
Lee has made it all the way from Montana with very few maintenance problems. And now, just around 10 miles from his Boston destination, he breaks down.
A Pleasant Street resident remarked, “This guy has gone around 3,000 miles, and the Belmont roads broke the wagon!”
How about that. And, throughout it all, one of the horses contently grazed on a resident’s front lawn.
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