In addition to the delicious and healthy recipes personal chef Brandon McDearis provides Endurances Magazine readers every month, McDearis is also on the board of directors for Wellspring International Outreach (www.wellspring-outreach.org), a nonprofit founded by internationally renowned motorcycle journalist Neale Bayly. The group works to raise money for abandoned children in Peru. Recently, Bayly and McDearis cooked up a plan to make a TV show that would showcase their love of international travel, which for Bayly meant on motorcycles, and draw attention to abandoned children around the world. This started a series of motorcycle expeditions to Peru to raise sponsorship, film a pilot and finally produce a three-hour television series.
The show is called “Neale Bayly Rides: Peru,” and it is a collaborate effort between Bayly and Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett. The three-part series, which will air on the SPEED Channel starting on Sunday, June 9, at 9 p.m., revolves around Bayly as the host and expedition leader of three non-professional motorcyclists who will first train in South Carolina, and then ride across Peru bound for the orphanage Bayly and McDearis support in Moquegua. The cast members are Dr. Laura Ellis, founder of the wellness center MedAge in Asheville; entrepreneur Troy Rice, owner of See the Matrix information technology consulting; and James Johnson, often referred to as the Whiskey Priest, a local ordained Presbyterian minister from the Bahamas. Other characters featured on the show include Bill Conger, a BMW-certified instructor who works as Bayly’s tail gunner, and McDearis, who works as a support truck driver while also providing food and nutrition services to the riders, as well as logistical support to the expedition. Once at the orphanage, the riders will be tasked with helping on a building project that Wellspring volunteers will set up for them. And hopefully, they will undergo some dramatic life changes from the experience that will be documented on camera for you all to see.
