Now I have to say Perkins today reminded me of my current disdain for restaurants. We asked if I would be okay eating there since I can not eat gluten. The woman responded with "Not a problem, we have a gluten free menu." Apparently everyone working in a kitchen in this country needs to be retrained. It is fine having a gluten free menu, but it is not truly gluten free if it gets cross contaminated by gluten in the kitchen. Shortly after leaving Perkins the pain and swelling starts. My pants are tight and I cant help but rub my stomach as my intestines are painfully swelling. So that is how the day starts.
As we finally near no-mans land in the middle of nowhere, we got hit by a sudden snow shower. Suddenly we lose all cell signal. Checking out this little bed and breakfast in a town with no grocery store or gas station we are struck by other peculiarities. Not all the houses have numbers. The lady explains that the numbers is a new thing they have started for fires but the town does not use numbers for the residents. Every place instead has a name and they do not deliver mail to houses, everyone is forced to get a p.o. box for mail and pick it up at the post office. Since you can not use a p.o. box for licenses everyone has licenses that say for example the corner of Mary street and Silver street. There is no cell service in town and approximately 60 residents who live there year round the rest just come up there seasonally.
Imagine life without a cell phone in todays day and age. I actually saw a working pay phone, the old school ones that took change. I have not used one of those in years and apparently she says guest complain they can not figure out how to work it. As we walked around town to see the lake we got caught in another snow shower which lasted about 30 minutes. There was not much open in town either, We did not see a place to get a cup of coffee or even a gallon of milk for the residents. When we left we looked at the booklet for the town we were handed and it said "The Town Time Forgot" which we found very fitting. On the way back to civilization we also passed a road with a sign that read Worlds End State Park. It took about 20 minutes of driving to get cell signal back.
We are finally back home, where unfortunately I will be on a liquid diet for a few days because I wont crave food until the stomach swelling goes down. I also am back to appreciating the usefulness of cell phones and internet. Sadly it takes being without to appreciate what we have, and that kiddies is todays lesson of the day. Well that and if you work in a kitchen you shall be retrained because most likely you are doing things wrong.
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