>A thriving locally owned business encouraged re-use of 6 pack holders and suggested the purchase of a local product. If you’re wondering what a “yokel” is, no, it’s not a Yooper, it’s a kind of beer by the New Glarus brewing company….

…the same company that brews Fat Squirrel and Spotted Cow.
Later on, we saw this sign of the times; empty store, business closed, sign gone.

This vacant storefront was only a block away from the Spotted Cow Crossing.

But later, this truck turned off the highway in front of my minivan: a student driver in the professional truck driver program at the local technical college. Someone, somehow, is training for a new career.