Tierra Blanca Ranch ended too soon.  You know how when you wish you could go back to something after its gone... well thats how I feel about the ranch.  It was the most fun I have ever had (even though at times I hated it with a full heart).  Definitely the best experience in my life so far.  I learned more in the 19 months that I was there than I did growing up.  Clyde became like a father to me, and I became a critical gun fanatic.  This "Ranch"  has shaped not only my life in a positive way, but I've seen with my own eyes,  the molding of many young men throughout my stay at Tierra Blanca. When I showed up with Scott and Clyde Chandler from Pleasanton California;  I refused to eat a hamburger because a fly had landed on it.   This is a common joke about the ranch but its true.  I was a spoiled pampered brat.  When I left,  I was a good shot. Only weeks after leaving the ranch,  I became paralyzed in a dirtbike accident.  This was a huge life-change.  I moved back to California for Rehab and was living with my mother again.  2 years later after the accident;  I live in my own apartment and go to school for welding while working full time as a customer service representative.  I live every day to the fullest and credit the ranch for instilling many valuable morals to my ethics.   If I had the chance , I would go back to live @ Tierra Blanca Ranch in a single Heart Beat.

-Ted K.