Staples

Probably could put it on a trailer hitch and just haul it away.

Uh, [laughs] and, uh, Duluth, Cloquet, um, all the way out to Staples, for crying out loud.

They got little stores and corner stores all over the place.

Chibbing.

So they were feeding Pelican Rapids, Elizabeth, Fergus Falls, probably DL.

What's that town you always talk about? Is it Park Rapids? Such on Highway 10? No, Staples? I don't talk about Staples.

St.

Cloud.

And Derek, you know, the chain or the empire is growing.

I mean, how far west are you right now? I know you're in Staples, right?

So that is, you know, that's one of our employee-owned and operated.

Okay.

warrior Monty James with the TGIF Friday chapter in the never-ending saga known as America's Hot Barn Report.

Blasting out to the lower 48 states and the great white north, eh? We just parked the HBR rig after 1,200 miles from Crofton, Nebraska, north and east to Staples, Minnesota.

By the way, the maple trees haven't started to turn yet, much to my chagrin.

Then west to tiny Stephon, South Dakota, population 68 folks on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation.