ON THE ADVENTURE TRAIL by Ken Nowicki
GREAT SUCCESS
“He got ram, I must get ram— “Very Nice and Great Success” — wisdom from Borat
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his year my old friends Lead-On Highfee and Packtrain MacNamee did not attend the Sheep Show® in Reno. “We wuz dragging a horse trailer out of the Yukon for an old friend,” said Packtrain. “Started south at New Years and pulled it down to the Cowtown (Calgary). Took a month coming down the Alaska Highway stopping at all our friends.” “Sure was fun,” allowed Lead-On. “Then we just turned it east and joined a convoy headed for Oddawa. Ended up camped right downtown.”
210 WILD S HEEP® ~ SPRING 2022
“Right comfy in a horse trailer, Boy,” said Packtrain. “Swept out the horse apples and a few mice and we bunked like a couple kings. Didn’t cost a thing.” “Got noisy at times with all the honking,” chuckled Lead-On. “But we was busy making friends with all those gals from Queebec and brushing up on our French. Ate a lot of poutine. Drank a lot of that Labby Blue.” “Fiddle music and western hoedown. What a blast, Boy. You should have been there.”
“I don’t want to know, guys,” I said. “The G-men could be watching.” I was serious. The news media said it was a violent insurrection and locals were disturbed. They had a protest themselves when some gawdawful smell started permeating the city streets. Cops had to clean house and tow all the trucks and trailers to the edge of town. Trudeau declared it an emergency. Shortly after that the Old Outfitters came home. The air is just starting to clear. “There’s a convoy starting down at Bozeman this summer and we sure
