Showing posts with label place names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place names. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Qu'Appelle? (Place names you remember)


So, as the plane descended, I saw white blanketing the ground as far as the eye could see. I thought of a friend with ties to the 'Peg and wondered if the snow covered all that way.

I thought about the last time I was in Manitoba. It was 1992 and I was on Trans-Can driving my corolla and making sure not to put in 85 octane fuel. I remember going through Qu'Appelle, which I thought was in Manitoba. Wrong. It's in Saskatchewan, but it got me thinking about place names I remember.


  • Humptulips, Washington {no thanks, I'm good}

  • Cool, California {had a place there for a few years}

  • Rough and Ready, CA {good friends live near there}

  • Coos Bay, OR {sounds vaguely dirty}

  • Weed, CA

  • Paw Paw, MI

    Places I have my eye on:

  • Mianus, CT {the "Beavis" in me wants to go here after seeing 'poo diving' at the sewage treatment plant on Jackass}

  • Radium Hot Springs, BC {Just love that name}

  • Voltaire, ND {until I find a town called Sartre}

  • Kooskooskie, WA

    Almost made it:

  • Boring, OR

  • Liberal, KS

    Any place names stick in your mind?



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