A Day in Hinton, ID the Mystery Dog Walker/Actor, Netflix to the Rescue

We awoke in Hinton, Oklahoma, and immediately checked the weather forecast.  High winds and incoming storms gave us pause to reconsider our plans for the day.  According to the weather forecast, we might make it a 100 miles or so before a major storm socked us in.  The thought of packing up our bikes, riding down a very windy, somewhat slick interstate through a major city (Oklahoma City) and then stopping to unpack our bikes again so we could check into another motel, all for the net benefit of 100 miles or so, left us a bit cold.  So, it's a day at the Hinton Inn in Hinton, Oklahoma.  After all, the Hinton Inn offers good internet, excellent satellite TV and free breakfast and dinner - all for $71 a day.  Plus, we have a Love's next door compete with three fast food franchises.  Life if good here in Hinton, Oklahoma.

Since not much is going on today, it might be a good time to solicit a little help with an ongoing mystery.

We stopped for lunch a few days ago in Taos, New Mexico.  As we secured our bikes, I noticed a stranger wearing a Breaking Bad cap out walking his dog.  He started a conversation (we get a lot of that) and I mentioned his cap.  He said they were "impossible to get."  When I asked him how he got his, he responded that he is a former Breaking Bad cast member, appearing in seasons one and two.  He said he played a school administrator in the show but left when he realized that they were not going to develop his character.

He went on to say that he was also in No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem.  According to the stranger, Javier Bardem shotgunned him in the street toward the end of the movie.

He then claimed that he was recently cast to play the role of a deputy sheriff on Longmire, the A&E show about a Wyoming sheriff which starts its third season on June 2.

He told me his name, which I failed to write down and subsequently forgot.  This is obvious blog material so I undertook a extensive Google search to check up him out.  I found nothing.

Were we conned my this mystery dog walker?  Probably.  But a small chance remains that he is indeed an actor and has appeared in these movies and TV shows.  Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to assist in this search.  The first Biking Bad 2014 reader to positively identify him as an actual actor wins a coffee cup from the UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.

 Mystery dog walker/actor.  Who is he?  A UFO Museum coffee cup hangs in the balance.

By mid-morning we had all read and responded to our emails, checked the weather reports repeatedly, browsed the web and avoided The Price Is Right on the lobby TV.  The afternoon was dedicated to Netflix.

The Hinton Inn in Hinton, Oklahoma.

We make our escape from Hinton on Friday morning.  We hope to make it to Little Rock, depending on the weather.