Comments on: Rooster Tales: Do You Want Fries With That http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/ Your Locally Owned News Source Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul & Helen Riley http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-13857 Paul & Helen Riley Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:18:21 +0000 http://www.mywausanews.com/?p=2635#comment-13857 Hi Mert, thanks for sharing some of your adventures with us. When our son, Curtis, was driving cross country he too shared stories and pictures. Many of these states we have not seen but have on our "Bucket Lists". With a grandson stationed at Great Falls, Mt in the Air Force we would like to travel that way this next summer. Nathan made many trips with his Uncle Curt in the truck but now gets to know first hand what the Montana winters are like. Remember going by a road sign a few years ago that read NO NAME, CO. Where they too lazy to name it or couldn't anyone really come up with a name for the town. We travel safely and keep on sending us a message once in a while as we miss you and your stories. Hi Mert, thanks for sharing some of your adventures with us.
When our son, Curtis, was driving cross country he too shared stories
and pictures. Many of these states we have not seen but have on our “Bucket
Lists”. With a grandson stationed at Great Falls, Mt in the Air Force we would like
to travel that way this next summer.
Nathan made many trips with his Uncle Curt in the truck but now gets to know
first hand what the Montana winters are like.
Remember going by a road sign a few years ago that read NO NAME, CO.
Where they too lazy to name it or couldn’t anyone really come up with a name for the town.
We travel safely and keep on sending us a message once in a while as we miss you and your stories.

]]> By: Mert Carlson http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-13842 Mert Carlson Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:26:23 +0000 http://www.mywausanews.com/?p=2635#comment-13842 I have learned 'why the chicken crossed the road'...He simply didn't want to be called a 'chicken' for NOT! Thanks for the inquiry, as several others have asked the same question. While I'm not certain that they were inquiring to see if I was still alive, or just lost out in the woods somewhere. Some thought I was rotting away in the rocking chair, when actually it is more opposite of that, I'm rocking away in my rotten chair. Personally, there are so many situations out here (the big ol' highway) that have given me the itch (and that is my good buddy's nickname in WI., really) to 'write from the road'. My days in Wausa are few and far between which makes gathering 'hometown' material a stretch at best. I will take your public request at heart and post my next 'Tales' from the highway. When I was a kid, travel was never in our family-plans and traveling to the next state was as comparable as getting to travel to Germany, like Lois and I did this past fall. Tonight I write from Blackfoot, Idaho, as tomorrow I'll load spuds for Minn/St. Paul. Day before yesterday I was loading Pork out of John Morrell in Sioux Falls, and unloaded this a.m., in Salt Lake City. So, by traveling across the country, and usually from MN/WI, to L. A., AZ, MS, and all other states inbetween, it has become an education that I certainly would like to share. Also, along the way, I point and click a small (cheap), digital Nikon and have amassed over 10,000 photos. The original objective there was to send these to our German friends so they could see at the grass roots level what America has to offer. That has now grown in proportions to have these posted on websites for all to see (that care to). This afternoon I encountered a sign that said 'Weston' and 'Preston'...sorta cutesy wouldn't you say? And yes, the place where each of you should have grown up and made your fortune was in Idaho, in a small town called Inkom! Another sign which connects with a fellow Wausa native, and his related profession, is found about 20 miles into eastern Wyoming on I-80, labeled 'Carpenter' and 'Burns'!! If that is gone from that post the next time through, we'll all know where it went??? Tomorrow Yellowstone? Will have to check the roads first, but may soar up to I-94 across the great state of Montana, up into N. Dakota and dropping into MN, on Sunday eve. Maybe it's time for some rest. Thanks again, Paul and Helen. (And yes, there are many Roosters in South Dakota, along with several Eagles seen on the last trip through.) I have learned ‘why the chicken crossed the road’…He simply didn’t want to be called a ‘chicken’ for NOT!

Thanks for the inquiry, as several others have asked the same question. While I’m not certain that they were inquiring to see if I was still alive, or just lost out in the woods somewhere. Some thought I was rotting away in the rocking chair, when actually it is more opposite of that, I’m rocking away in my rotten chair.

Personally, there are so many situations out here (the big ol’ highway) that have given me the itch (and that is my good buddy’s nickname in WI., really) to ‘write from the road’. My days in Wausa are few and far between which makes gathering ‘hometown’ material a stretch at best.

I will take your public request at heart and post my next ‘Tales’ from the highway. When I was a kid, travel was never in our family-plans and traveling to the next state was as comparable as getting to travel to Germany, like Lois and I did this past fall. Tonight I write from Blackfoot, Idaho, as tomorrow I’ll load spuds for Minn/St. Paul. Day before yesterday I was loading Pork out of John Morrell in Sioux Falls, and unloaded this a.m., in Salt Lake City.

So, by traveling across the country, and usually from MN/WI, to L. A., AZ, MS, and all other states inbetween, it has become an education that I certainly would like to share. Also, along the way, I point and click a small (cheap), digital Nikon and have amassed over 10,000 photos. The original objective there was to send these to our German friends so they could see at the grass roots level what America has to offer. That has now grown in proportions to have these posted on websites for all to see (that care to).

This afternoon I encountered a sign that said ‘Weston’ and ‘Preston’…sorta cutesy wouldn’t you say? And yes, the place where each of you should have grown up and made your fortune was in Idaho, in a small town called Inkom! Another sign which connects with a fellow Wausa native, and his related profession, is found about 20 miles into eastern Wyoming on I-80, labeled ‘Carpenter’ and ‘Burns’!! If that is gone from that post the next time through, we’ll all know where it went???

Tomorrow Yellowstone? Will have to check the roads first, but may soar up to I-94 across the great state of Montana, up into N. Dakota and dropping into MN, on Sunday eve. Maybe it’s time for some rest. Thanks again, Paul and Helen. (And yes, there are many Roosters in South Dakota, along with several Eagles seen on the last trip through.)

]]> By: Paul & Helen Riley http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-13817 Paul & Helen Riley Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:56:40 +0000 http://www.mywausanews.com/?p=2635#comment-13817 Where did the Rooster go as we miss you???? Where did the Rooster go as we miss you????

]]> By: Ralph Youngman http://www.mywausanews.com/2010/04/rooster-tales-do-you-want-fries-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-10497 Ralph Youngman Mon, 03 May 2010 03:00:29 +0000 http://www.mywausanews.com/?p=2635#comment-10497 Those were all good'uns. Those were all good’uns.

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