Hello everyone! My Name is Lorenzo Vasquez III. I was born in El Paso some 30 years ago and have always called this city home. The outdoors has always been my sanctuary and I've enjoyed countless hours in the wilderness camping, backpacking, hiking, volunteering to maintain and clean up trails, fishing, hunting with my guns, and bow hunting. My experiences outside the city have been fun and adventurous!
I thank my mother and father for making me an outdoors man and giving me a love of something so pure, the wilderness. My mother was diagnosed with kidney failure when I was 7 years old. She suffered through three failed transplants, a 3-month coma, breast cancer, and numerous other complications. She survived 17 hard years from the time she was first diagnosed. In those 17 years she tried her hardest to give me what I loved the most, opportunities to play in the mountains, fish, and camp. When the doctors advised her not to go camping or to avoid outdoors activities she lied to me and told me the opposite so that I could build my experiences outdoors be it hiking, camping, fishing, or shooting.
Although, my parents divorced and struggled financially, they both did their best to get my brother and I out into the wilderness. My father showed me how to fish and hunt but most importantly, he showed me how shoot a bow and arrow! My dad did what he had to do to build up the funds to take me fishing and hunting and to buy my brother and I our bows. To this day I still share nights under the stars with my father and despite all the struggles he helped engrave the love for the outdoors that I have!
At a young age my father started my brother and I off with bear fiberglass longbows I believe. At age 6, he brought me my first compound and I shot a compound from that point until 2012. I had always wanted to try traditional archery; however, I always worried I'd put to much money into it and there really wasn't anyone out here that I knew who was an experienced traditional archer and could guide me. Then, two individuals made separate trips from Europe to Texas and I followed both threads and became engulfed with the idea of shooting a recurve or longbow. A comment later and a pm from TWP and here I am today, totally putting way to much money into it! Thus, my venture into traditional archery began and continues. It has been a blast I must say and I am glad and proud that Sacagawea accompanied me on first 3D shoot with a traditional bow.
As far the rest of my bio, I have a bachelors degree in elementary education and currently I am a writer, for the most part, I edit material and help people prepare written documents such as business plans, etc. Prior to this I worked as a sheet metal worker during college from 2007 to 2010 and before that I helped my grandfather run and manage his landscaping and lawn service company from the time I graduate high school until the time I decided it was time for college.
I am married to a beautiful and wonderful wife and have two amazing children. My daughter and son are my life and I am very happy to say they are growing the same love and passion for the wilderness that I have. I have gotten my brother, father, and grandfather into traditional archery as well as my wife and children. I have also began taking my children backpacking in New Mexico and have great experiences out in the wilderness with them.
I want to thank everyone who has made Sacagawea's journey possible for us who have had time with her and the individuals who will have that same opportunity soon and in the future.
"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
I thank my mother and father for making me an outdoors man and giving me a love of something so pure, the wilderness. My mother was diagnosed with kidney failure when I was 7 years old. She suffered through three failed transplants, a 3-month coma, breast cancer, and numerous other complications. She survived 17 hard years from the time she was first diagnosed. In those 17 years she tried her hardest to give me what I loved the most, opportunities to play in the mountains, fish, and camp. When the doctors advised her not to go camping or to avoid outdoors activities she lied to me and told me the opposite so that I could build my experiences outdoors be it hiking, camping, fishing, or shooting.
Although, my parents divorced and struggled financially, they both did their best to get my brother and I out into the wilderness. My father showed me how to fish and hunt but most importantly, he showed me how shoot a bow and arrow! My dad did what he had to do to build up the funds to take me fishing and hunting and to buy my brother and I our bows. To this day I still share nights under the stars with my father and despite all the struggles he helped engrave the love for the outdoors that I have!
At a young age my father started my brother and I off with bear fiberglass longbows I believe. At age 6, he brought me my first compound and I shot a compound from that point until 2012. I had always wanted to try traditional archery; however, I always worried I'd put to much money into it and there really wasn't anyone out here that I knew who was an experienced traditional archer and could guide me. Then, two individuals made separate trips from Europe to Texas and I followed both threads and became engulfed with the idea of shooting a recurve or longbow. A comment later and a pm from TWP and here I am today, totally putting way to much money into it! Thus, my venture into traditional archery began and continues. It has been a blast I must say and I am glad and proud that Sacagawea accompanied me on first 3D shoot with a traditional bow.
As far the rest of my bio, I have a bachelors degree in elementary education and currently I am a writer, for the most part, I edit material and help people prepare written documents such as business plans, etc. Prior to this I worked as a sheet metal worker during college from 2007 to 2010 and before that I helped my grandfather run and manage his landscaping and lawn service company from the time I graduate high school until the time I decided it was time for college.
I am married to a beautiful and wonderful wife and have two amazing children. My daughter and son are my life and I am very happy to say they are growing the same love and passion for the wilderness that I have. I have gotten my brother, father, and grandfather into traditional archery as well as my wife and children. I have also began taking my children backpacking in New Mexico and have great experiences out in the wilderness with them.
I want to thank everyone who has made Sacagawea's journey possible for us who have had time with her and the individuals who will have that same opportunity soon and in the future.
"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
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