Kazoo Lama = Kalamazoo (a lama is a religious teacher)
Lean Puppies Run = Upper Peninsula
Toe Dirt = Detroit
Rice Travesty = Traverse City
Sparring Dad = Grand Rapids
Iiimppssss! = Mississippi
No Jacks = Jackson
Main Ride = Meridian
Poulet = Tupelo (“Poulet” is French for “chicken.”)
Food Rx = Oxford
Eat This Grub = Hattiesburg
Bark Sane = Nebraska
Ah … Amo = Omaha
Snarling Dad = Grand Island
Hotter Plant = North Platte
Near Key = Kearney (changed from Re: Kenya)
Yo, Mr. Chicken = Chimney Rock
Ah, Rain Control = North Carolina
The Car Lot = Charlotte
Hair Gel = Raleigh
Leave it, Lefty = Fayetteville (changed from “Fit Yeti Leave”)
Status, or Making Money? = Great Smoky Mountains
Woman Listens = Winston-Salem
Ax Set = Texas
All I Roam = Amarillo
All Sad = Dallas
A Slope = El Paso
Is Tuna? = Austin
Long Train = Arlington
Onion Santa = San Antonio
Ooh, Nuts = Houston
More to read
Winnie’s Whoosh Went Walkabout, part 9
Read part 8, from last week. She let the tug tug her out into the night, away out of town and up into the hills, toward the Pass of Pazain, keeping her Whoosh in sight, up way up high, …
Read part 7, from last week. She threw off her quilt and jumped up and got going. She clambered through backyards, leapt dogs and climbed walls. Her Whoosh wasn’t trusting. Her Whoosh wasn’t slowing, despite her cajolings and …