There were so many great responses that we couldn't choose just one winner!

Congrats to DOG XO 84 - you're the winner of the $200 Saddleback Gift Certificate!
And congrats to Clem93 who gets an Honorable Mention AND a $100 Gift Certificate!

Please reply to suzanne@texags.com to claim your prizes!

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Saddleback Leather is glad to be back as a TexAgs Sponsor and we're giving away a $200 gift certificate to show it! Just tell us where you would like to take an adventure with a Saddleback bag and you'll be entered to win a $200 gift certificate!

A hot wife and two fabulous kids and 14 Rwandan sons and daughters and a cool dog and a crooked federale sent to kill me kind of makes up the Saddleback story.......

I'm Sarah Farver '88 and a few years ago, I ran across a company called Saddleback Leather. At the time, I didn't know anything about leather, but did love a couple leather bags I had, so I decided to check them out. It was Saddleback's slogan that caught my eye: "They'll fight over it when you're dead." This was part of their promise, since all of their leather came with a 100 year guarantee.

If that BOLD statement wasn't enough to get my attention, Saddleback's founder, Dave Munson, had a eulogy to his dog, Blue, posted right on his website. It reminded me of Maggie, my doberman, who was with me at TAMU and loved riding around campus.


BLUE

Well, everything about Saddleback spoke to me. I loved seeing an American company offer a product they were 100% proud of. I loved the ode to Blue. I loved that when I bought a wallet for my husband, I knew it would be something he could pass down to our son one day, and that it would be better for the wear.

The more I dug into their website, the more I connected with who the company is. The owner, Dave Munson, started the company when he was living in Mexico teaching English. He needed a bag to carry his schoolbooks around so he walked into a leather shop, handed the guy a drawing and asked him to make it. Check out the full story on our site.

As you've probably guessed, I now work at Saddleback and none of that initial appreciation has faded. Saddleback Leather spoke to me, and I think it'll speak to other Aggies too.

People who own our bags share photos of their adventures with their leather. One of the highlights of working here is getting to see photos that our friends share of their leather in unique places all over the world.
Actual adventure photos of a few Saddleback bags. Check 'em all out HERE.


Matt Chancey Darfur refugee camp Jach, Sudan



Trent Jesso Queenstown, New Zealand



Ryan Menath on Air Force Refueling Tanker over Iraq



Frits Schoeman Devon, England

New Zealand Elk Hunting

Snow mobiling in the Canadian backwoods looking for elk or moose

To Wimbledon next summer to watch some Grand Slam Tennis!

To Kruger National Park in South Africa this December.

To all 2016 Texas A&M football away games!

My best friend has a Saddleback Leather bag and I can attest to everything this post says, the bag is absolutely the toughest bag that I've ever seen!

To be my companion during my two-week journey of Europe.

Also, so it will match my saddleback wallet.

Would love to bring some saddleback on my hike up mt. Sinai next month!

I'd take it up the Incan Trail to Machu Picchu next May!

On a trek through eastern Australia.

in my neighbor's backyard with my tin foil hat

To every MLB stadium!!!!

Next March, the wife and I will be spending 2 weeks in Israel on an international study trip. A Saddleback would be a great addition to our travel needs.

I'm going on a big camping trip this spring and would love to use this in my future trip to Europe.

I can't stand when women have saddlebags, it's so disgusting to look at.

My wallet went hunting with me up in Wyoming two weeks ago.. I had my conservation stamp and hunting license in it. =)

The Game Warden liked my wallet.

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Australia.

Need it to lug around all the drugs my doctors have me on. Yes, they're prescription.

I will continue to drag my bag, my wallet and any future saddle back bag to from Austin to Tokyo every other month.

Greece, honeymoon

Alaska

My daily adventure into the urban jungle that is San Francisco

Overlanding on the backtrails and forest roads of New Mexico and Colorado.

Montana! Would love a Saddleback for photo equipment or fishing gear.

I have a thin Saddleback wallet and it is perfectly streamlined but durable. My brother, class of '98 has a Saddleback briefcase and I envy it. He loves it. It is my hope to get one eventually.

I am a prosecutor, so it would be in court with me most days, toting my laptop and files. Beyond those daily adventures, I have hopes of taking a trip to Australia, and would love to take a saddleback bag to the outback with me.

Fly fishing the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park.

I'd like to take a Saddleback bag on a hike up Kilimanjaro with my dad and brother before the ice melts and the former gets too old to make it.

Have a Saddleback thin briefcase, literally my favorite purchase in the last three years. Use it every single day.

I'd like to take a saddleback in time and tell Kyle Allen to not throw 3 pick sixes to Alabama!

Mars

Trip to all the major civil war battlefields.

Germany, Scandanavia, Bora Bora.

I'll tell you where...someplace warm...a place where the beer flows like wine...where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talking about a little place called Aspen.

Something that good looking I'd take to Fashion Week in New York and look goooooood.

Hiking in the Swiss Alps.

Any of the 14ers in Colorado