The Grass Is Greener

[FarmerBob]

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[RPM]

I like that one!!

Only one I can add is when I was in Niger, West Africa - up on the edge of the Sahara. There was a town there named 'AHOLE' ...

 

[JATO_RaT]

Don't forget you got something named the Clinton Library too! That should add a little more color to the state of OreKansas

 

[GlueGuy]

Harv,

We've been through that area a bunch of times. In fact, a woman that I've worked with for a couple years has a cabin up past Volcano a little ways. She & her husband rent a place down in Corolitos, but they bought the place up in the hills.

Friends of ours have lived in Jackson for a number of years. We always tried to stay at their place when we went up to Kirkwood for X-country skiing. They swore the best melons on the planet can be gotten in Ione.

The GlueGuy

 

[Harv]

Rat -

If you rode your bike on Shake Ridge Road, you went right past our house. In fact, the property has over a quarter-mile of frontage on Shake Ridge.

And GlueGuy, same to you. If you actually hit the town of Volcano, you may well have zipped right by the home of my tractor. Who knows? I may have been there myself.

Our family has a cabin at Lake Kirkwood. Buried in 30 feet of snow during the winter, but a beautiful spot during the summer.

If either one of you guys, or RobertN, for that matter, ever heads up that way again, let me know in advance and maybe we can hook up. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[JATO_RaT]

Sounds like a deal Harv. I have always liked that area. It is to me, California. I love the Quercus Lobata that dominate the landscape, the rolling hills and dry grass of summer. From where I live, I look right towards the town of Cool. I'm but a couple miles from the Auburn Dam overlook. The drive to 50 from here on Highway 49 is a great drive, a bit winding, going by Coloma and Lotus on the way to Placerville. Rat...

 

[MarkV]

Harv,

I can hear your mind thinking. You guys stop on by and why don't you bring your tractors. I have this little culvert project that I thought we could spend a little quality time on./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

MarkV

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>stop on by and why don't you bring your tractors.</font color=blue>

Mark -- Am I that obvious? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[FarmerBob]

Now Mark... you could have gone all day without reminding me of that /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif. Around here we just try to think of Bill as a "bad memory" /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif.

FarmerBob

 

[JATO_RaT]

Hehehe, sorry FarmerBob, its nice to know there are some standup folks in Arkansas. Rat...

 

[GlueGuy]

I'll keep that in mind Harv, but don't hold your breath. Since our friends moved from Jackson up to Oregon, I bet we won't be heading up that way quite as often as we used to. However, the trails around Kirkwood are still some of our favorites...

Maybe one of these days I'll do that bike ride that winds around Markleyville. What's it called? Oh yeah the Deathride. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

The GlueGuy

 

[Phred]

Farmerbob,

It could be worse... at least he is now a new yorker!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Phred

 

[JATO_RaT]

Thats right, poor New York.

 

[patton]

We have a town in Alabama named Abanda. The story is it was a notation on a railway map that indicated a siding that was no longer used. Since the railroad had the best maps, people began to think that was the name of the town.

My county has a Ourtown and a Goldville. Goldville became a rough place to live because of the miners living there, so the original residents moved down the road to a new area which they dubbed the new site. Now Newsite, AL has a school, and a dozen or more stores, and goldville has a single store, which might not be there if it weren't that it is just a mile or so inside the county line adjacent to a dry county.

But some of my favorites com from working in telecommunications where each microwave or fiber optic repeater is given the name of the nearest town or other location. On one link, running up the east coast out of Atlanta, we have a Biggerstaff, Dobson's Knob, Grandpa's Knob and a Cowpens. The latter is a real city. We have a satellite uplink in Florida in Ft Lonesome (trust me, it fits).

Pat

 

[Wingnut]

Western Canada is much given to the english translation of the indian name fro a place, hence:
Red Deer, MooseJaw, Buffalo Narrows, Head Smashed In Jumping, Stony Plain, Grassland, Cold Lake, Elk Point, Battle River, etc

too bad that common sense ain't

 

[MarkV]

One of my favorites is outside of Tallahassee, Fla. and is named Coon Bottom.

 

[scruffy]

One I always got a kick out of was in Oregon and named WhoreHouse Flats, until the Forest Service got on it's high horse and renamed in Naughty Girl Meadow. The U.S.F.S. did that to several places within the Nat'l Forest about a decade or so ago.

 

[JATO_RaT]

Where I live is south of "Paradise" and just north of "Cool". All of which are north of "Hell for Sure". Rat...

 

[jimmoore]

Woodruff County,AR has a "******head Corner"." Dead Man Corner"." Pumpkin Bend" and "Dummy Line Road"

jim

 

[RSeymour]

Hell, Michigan & my favorite - Climax, Michigan