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Cameraman Tyler “Squeedunk” Viars (it’s a Cherokee name and we don’t know what it means) and I landed last Friday, September 5 in Albuquerque just in time for the five o’clock rush hour traffic! Trying to head north to Cimarron which lies in the Northeast corner of the state to hunt elk with Rodney Prince of Rawhide Outfitters, Inc., battling traffic for an hour or two just to get out of town!

Finally, we rolled into town around 10 pm and anxiously awaited the next morning’s elk hunt. Rodney met us at the motel around 6 am and we headed out. It wasn’t 15 minutes later and we’re standing outside the truck listening to elk bugle in the distance! It was awesome!

More on the hunt in another blog but let me tell you about something else that was awesome. We were sitting in a little restaurant one night after the hunt was over and this guy and girl walk in to order “take out” and our waitress mentioned that they were from Boston and they were the “team” that was escorting Matt, as he rode in his wheelchair, across country from Boston to California! And he’s on life support!

Well, I couldn’t stand it, so I walked over to them and introduced myself and asked to hear more about their cause. They gladly informed me of what they were doing and told me that Matt was 31 years old, had a severe form of Muscular Dystrophy, and they decided to support Matt as he followed his dream to ride his wheelchair all the way across the United States!

They informed me that they had stopped 16 miles south of Cimarron to spend the night and would be coming through town the next day around 1pm. That was perfect! I wanted to meet Matt and hear the rest of the story.

So the next day I had a chance to meet Matt and the entire entourage of Danielle, Ron and Jay.

Basically, they decided that too many people in our country or “institutionalized” and miss out on living a good life because of this terrible disease and they wanted to show everyone that the quality of life can be improved!

Matt covers 20 miles on one charge of the batteries on his wheelchair, they stop midday to recharge and then go another 15-20 miles that afternoon before calling it a day. The wheelchair goes 6 mph.

He started on the end of a dock in the Boston Harbor and, tentatively, are scheduled to end up in Long Beach, CA! The total trip should take them around four months.
They’ve seen it all and Matt even said that deer along the way would actually run alongside his wheelchair!

He has endured every type of weather you can imagine and wraps up in his Boston RedSox blanket since he is a huge fan of the RedSox!

Needless to say I was inspired! You’ll have to watch the episode of Realtree Outdoors next season to see my interview with him.

This will make you think.

This video may seem a little weird to you, but I wanted to show you a little take of what the new Bad Boy Buggies spot will be. It's pretty interesting to get a different perspective on how TV spots are shot, as they take so much time and effort to put together.

Enjoy and hope you are getting pumped about the fall. I'll post some stories soon about the first two hunts of the year.