Out here in the country, there is little contact with the outside world. The cell phone and Internet are our only real way to know what is happening "on the outside". There is no television reception, the mailbox is out on CR3255, there is no telegraph station in town and the Pony Express never came this far south even when it did exist. The town does have a Family Dollar, an old-fashioned hardware store and a few other businesses, but we are really quite isolated. The church we attend is 12 miles to the west and the Walmart is 12 miles to the south,
We check the national news on our smartphone every once in a while to find out what's going on in the world, but for the most part it feels like living off the grid but still having electricity, water and a sewer system. I think I heard a plane fly over, a long way off, a while back, but there hasn't been even one police siren, car horn or other alarm or alert of any kind since we arrived here a month ago. I think we will be getting our mail forwarded from Colorado tomorrow. We'll see if it gets into the mailbox down on CR3255 or else we will have to drive into town to the post office, which has limited hours of operation.
We like it here. We like the living arrangement of our motor home and the protection from the elements provided by the covering over us. We like the slower pace and the rest we are getting. Loren and Diane have a large dvd collection, so we watch movies almost every night and then get more sleep than we have in years. It is a definite change of pace for us, but a welcome one, and a needed one. So while we do know what's happening with friends and family by means of texts and very good cell phone reception, we are letting most of the "things" of the world pass us by for the moment. We're pretty sure if something significant happens out there, we here won't be among the first to know about it. But, if you think we need to know.......just call.
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