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Five Mules Join Trail Ride Spanning Three Nations

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Mark and Brenda Laney, Barbara Buckley, and Christina and Jeff Blue at a stopover just outside Springer, N.M., on May 31, at the Colfax Rodeo Arena Grounds

By Mark Laney

The Best of America by Horseback Mexico to Canada Ride has five mule riders participating: Brenda (riding LaneyB) and Mark (riding Mountain Man) Laney, from Hale Center, Texas; Barbara Buckley, riding Scarlet, from Safety Harbor, Fla.; and Christiana (riding Audrey) and Jeff (riding Tonto) Blue from Elgin, Texas. 

The five month adventure has traveled over 650 miles since starting in Santa Teresa, N.M. on the Mexico border, and is about to attain the 100,000 cumulative trail riding miles ridden by all its riders since the beginning of the popular trail riding series, Best of America by Horseback, which is currently aired on RFD-TV network. This milestone will be achieved in the Smile High city of La Junta, Colo.  

Led by outdoorsman and trail master Tom Seay of Culpeper, Va., the ride has been and will be involved in a host of local activities all along the trail, which will include an escort by the Canadian Mounties when the ride reaches Saskatchewan, Canada Sept. 5.

 Mark Laney, the Chief Executive Officer of Best of America by Horseback from Plainview, Texas, said, “We are a little traveling town of people from all walks of life and varying backgrounds, ranging in age from their forties to folks in their seventies and eighties. We just could not have asked for a better group of people to ride with us and share this historical journey  It is truly an experience and an adventure of a lifetime.”

 

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Brenda Laney on LaneyB in Colorado at the M Lazy C Ranch
The ride is being filmed for an upcoming series of television shows.

 The trail route, progress of the ride, as well as information on the ride for riders that wish to join this amazing adventure between now and early September, all can be found on the show’s website:  www.bestofamericabyhorseback.com  or call 540-829-8555.

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Brenda and Mark Laney with the fall leaves at Caprock Canyon State Park