Member
Spotlight:
Glenn & Susan Bontly
From the April 2001 Issue of Trail Tales
by: Bonnie Bannigan
The
Bontly’s have been a great family to have as part of the NM4W family. For
those of you who always wondered who updates our club website and makes it look
so fantastic, these are the people! Because Glenn does so well with the website,
we will let him get away with the fact that he drives something with round
headlights! Along with the title of Webmaster, Glenn is our Program Chairman and
is responsible for selling all of those tickets at the meetings as well as other
club paraphernalia. Glenn and Susan have been with the club for almost 2 years
and moved to Tijeras from Ohio (one muddy place to another). Actually Glen
remembers back in Ohio when car wash places actually hung out signs stating,
"NO MUDDY JEEPS!" Glenn and Susan have been married almost 20 years,
have a great 14 year old son, Stephen and have a massive passion for four
wheelin! Glenn is a Major in the Air Force and Susan operates her own online
bookstore. When I asked Glenn what his most fond memory of the club was, he
actually gave me memories of his old club in Ohio so I guess we haven’t
impressed him enough yet. He said they used to conduct "Novice Rides"
to introduce the inexperienced wheeler’s to four wheeling. He enjoyed it when
their faces would light up when they tackled the smallest of obstacles that
would compare to a speed bump to most of us! Maybe Glen could lead one of these
for the NM4W’s someday! Keep an eye out for the Red TJ with the upcoming 4 to
1 kit out on the trail! P.S.…..just to show you how seriously Glenn takes his
four wheeling, we caught him making verbal entries into a tape recorder on the
way home from Cruces’s Chile Challenge this year of all the changes he wants
to make to his Jeep, now that’s serious! Congrats to Glenn for getting his
first article published in a magazine too, sorry I can’t tell you which one
but he can when you see him! Nice having you Bontly’s around!