Recently I was picking up a box of items I left at my dad's house. I didn't know for sure if I still had anything there at all, but sure enough, there it was. A box pretty much just full of CD cases and PlayStation demo disks.

I don't have any need for these, but I figured I'd grab the box anyway. Back home, I opened it, and under the fiberglass insulation mouse nest inside I also found two items I hadn't seen in at least 20 years. They took me back, and I'll take you back too.

In high school, for no reason I can explain today, one of my favorite places to explore and sometimes shop was the Trading Post along Highway 371 just outside of Backus.

If you've been there, you have an idea of what I was looking at while there. The post today has far more stuff, but maybe fewer (or harder to fi

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