I've always been fond of business names that include two names that rhyme with "n" in between. That's probably one of the reasons we named our business "Eye-n-Sky LLC". I suppose it goes back to my freshman year in college when my roommate at the time was a Who fanatic. He probably had every album published by the Who through 1975. Of course he'd play them all the time. Well one evening after dinner I had a song going through my head and I was trying to figure out what it was. So I hummed the tune and my roommate tried to figure out what song it was and play it for me. Well after three hours he finally gave up. Anyway, one morning several weeks later I was thumbing through his albums and came across what I thought was the song, put the album on, and sure enough, there it was: "Pure and Easy" from the "Odds 'n Sods" album. It actually was published earlier on (I think) Who's Next. Anyway, I woke up all of the snoozing dorm-mates that morning playing it loud(LY). So what does all this have to do with a cross country bike trip? It relates since I'm on the lookout for businesses that use that type of name. The first was this one in Winthrop, WA:

Then near Glasgow, MT we ran into a similar business with a similar name.
Today we came across a couple of bars with names of similar ilk:
And this, my favorite. The two halves of the name don't rhyme, but I like the reference to the native American chief hidden in the reference to sliding up to the bar and chatting with the bartender. Of course the two names could rhyme, but I won't go there.....
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