Bill Inman and his horse Blackie, along with wife Brenda and best hand, Jonny set off to cross the country coast to coast, from Oregon to North Carolina. His mission is to uncover all the uplifting and positive people, places and stories that inspire and remind us how wonderful it is to be living in America. This channel was created and is being maintained by Dallas Pesola, independent filmmaker from New York City who has joined the Inman's on their journey to document not only their story, but to disocover and share candid behind the scenes moments on the road, the awesome beauty of this land and the kindness of the people living on it. These clips are shot with a digital still camera and captured to an SD memory card as mpeg files. I hope to be able to have time to digitize footage from the primary camera soon. Keep up on the journey at uncoveringamerica.com
Randy brought us over to his his Amish friends so Bill could reshoe Blackie. We had been looking for Drill Tech/ Borium for quite some time, and the shoes Blackie had on needed to be replaced. Without Borium the shoes will not have the grip needed on pavement or concrete. In this video Bill removed the old shoes and prepares the hoofs.
Bill nearly made it to Huntingdon when Blackie lost one of his shoes. Luckily Randy, who we had met in the previous town at a restaurant saw Bill and bought us to him. He then brought us to some Amish folks that had a facility to shoe, and more importantly the Drill Tech Bill needed. (Drill Tech is used on steel horseshoes to provide traction and a much more resistant surface.)
I waited at the Carroll County War Memorial for Bill and Blackie to ride by. We noticed that Tennessee often respects their fallen heros.
Brenda got in contact with the rodeo grounds in Trenton and we got permission to camp out there. When Bill arrived he realized that he had been there before.
After Bill and Blackie took a break at the gas station, they continued on into Dyersburg. After Brenda and I setup the panels she decided to go and check up on Bill with my car. Shortly after she came back and took the truck and trailer to pickup Bill and Blackie.
Bill traveled east on 104 to get to Dyersburg. Though it was a rural area the dump trucks and other traffic made the stretch somewhat treacherous.
The temperature began dropping rapidly and some locals came over to our camp to inform us of the impending storm. There where tornado watches in effect and the sky grew very dark quickly. The weather changed from being calm warm and humid, to chilly and extremely windy. We were pelted with wind and heavy rain. There was thunder and lightning which scared Tiger.
We finally find some time to do some laundry in Van Buren. Washing laundry isn't something that we can do every day. So even when we are taking a break, we stll have things that need to be done.
We spent Thanksgiving day at the campground in Van Buren, which had plenty of firewood. Before it got to cold i spent some time playing fetch with Brendas dog Queenie.
We got into Van Buren and asked around for a place to stay a couple days. We where direct to the Van Buren Campground on the Current River, and though it was cold, we enjoyed the quite time. Brenda also found a cantaloupe growing on the river.