The Good Life – July-August 2015

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18 “I get to breathe in fresh air out in the open world and not dread having to do the same thing the next day because I’m doing something I enjoy.” — Bret Amundson
BY: JESSICA BALLOU | PHOTOS: URBAN TOAD MEDIA Amundson enjoys the outdoors from Minnesota to Argentina he only consistent thing in Bret “T-Bone” Amundson’s day-to-day work life is a windshield. As an avid traveler, hunter, fisherman, photographer, radio personality, owner and publisher of Minnesota Sporting Journal and more, he’s usually driving somewhere for assignment and/or fun. “I haven’t had a permanent address for the last couple of years because I’m constantly on the road,” he said. “I get mail to three different places. It’s kind of tough because everybody wants to know where to send bills or something like that, and I don’t always know what to tell them. But that’s life on the road.” Amundson said the first five months of this year have been more eventful than the last few years combined. In February he traveled with Bill Sherck to film an episode of Due North Outdoors in Ely, M.N. They built snow caves (also known as quinzhees) and slept out on the lake even thought it was 31 degrees below zero. “This was something I wanted to try,” he said. “An accepted challenge that allows me to say, ‘Yeah, I did that!’ What I didn’t know is that it would be the coldest weekend of the year!” One of his favorite trips was a recent working and duck hunting trip to Argentina in May. The ducks there are a completely different species than the ones in North America, he said, and they don’t get hunted as much. Last year his friend Jim Riley asked him to go on a trip to Argentina, but he couldn’t make it work. This year he called Riley and asked if he could go next time, and Riley responded: “Yep, let’s go next month.” “This was an absolute bucket-list trip that I never imagined I’d have the chance to go on,” he said. “The hunting was incredible and the accommodations were first-class, but what I was looking forward to most was the adventure. Traveling to another continent and learning about another culture, all while strapping on waders and sitting next to a duck slough? How can it get any better?!” ‘Ready to go somewhere smaller’ Amundson said he had no idea what he wanted to do when he was younger. “At one point I wanted to play baseball until I realized I wasn’t good enough, and once that reality set in, that’s when I moved on to radio,” he said. “Fortunately I’m better at running my mouth than I am at running the bases.” 19
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