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Spotlight:
Chuck & Ethel May Peeples
From the March 2001 Issue of Trail Tales
by: Bonnie Bannigan
This
is a picture of Chuck and Ethel May at the New Mexico 4-Wheelers annual
Memorial Day Treasure Hunt in 1999. This was one of their first official club
events and I remember their dogs more than anything! I think the dogs were
more excited than Chuck was to go four wheeling. Chuck served as the Program
Chairman for a year and helped sell lots of club paraphernalia. We even found
the two of them helping out with the ticket sales at the Chile Challenge again
this year. These two retired folks love to go camping (in their motor home, of
course) and four wheeling as often as humanly possible. Their residence
resides in Los Lunas but
you will hardly ever find them there. They drive a teal TJ that is set up pretty
efficiently for wheelin purposes. You’ll usually find Chuck with one eye
behind a camcorder recording every trip he can of the fun we all have. Now, as I
hear it, Ethel May, you will find riding in the passenger seat somewhat quiet
until Chuck puts her on the downhill side of an off – camber obstacle! Besides
meeting these two at their first ever club meeting, my most fond memory was when
Chuck joined a few of us on a camping trip in October of 99’ up around the
Capitan area. Saturday was a beautiful day of seeing the colors in the trees
change to fall. Then we woke up to several feet of snow on Sunday morning. My
zipper to my tent was frozen shut and my jeep still had the top off. Chuck was
real quick to get me to town via Tom’s jeep and get me some hot chocolate…..then
nicely offered to take turns driving my jeep home! Of course I didn’t let him
but it was a nice gesture, and he got video of my craziness to bring back fond
memories anytime I care to see them. Sure glad to have the two of you!