A friend of mine on Facebook recently posted about taking a 40 mile round trip to support some friends who are bakers. She wanted to buy some of their delicious bread. I read the post, and laughed to myself about how driving 40 miles for something was such a big deal for her.
Other than a Dollar General, our town really doesn't have much. We have to run to the bigger town 20 miles away for decently (sort of) priced groceries, a hair cut, a hospital, school, fast food, and other restaurants. We make this trip about once a week. Of course ds heads there every day for school. They also have a big chain pharmacy store there if you don't care to use our two family owned ones here.
Yeah, you read that right, we don't have a hospital. It was shut down some time ago. It wasn't a good hospital when it was up and running anyway. (there are two doctor offices) We have 911, but the paramedics are 14 minutes away. The volunteer firefighters here are trained in first aid, if any of them are here and not at work elsewhere when you need them.
If you want a fancy restaurant such as Applebees, Chili's, Golden Corral, those are 45 minutes away in the bigger city. Bowling, Wal Mart, all the stores you associate with a city are there as well. Plus our church, and the zoo.
So you see why a 40 mile round trip for us is no big deal. I guess if you live in a city with everything at your fingertips, it is an adventure to go that far for some bread. I do love our town though. I love the people, the environment, the lack of crowding. There is good and bad everywhere, I suppose. But here in my town, for me, there are more goods than bad.
God Bless,
Chela
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