Something Amazing at the Sunrise Cafe and Critics

DEBBIE

Every table. Heck, almost every seat was taken. The waitresses were cheerful. Conversations were lively. Most sentences ended with “okay” or “and all that”. We ate eggs and toast and drank strong coffee from diner-white cups. I had the feeling that the 50+ people around us were on a first name basis. And they really liked each other. Not a mean word was spoken that I could hear. But that wasn’t the amazing thing. I knew something was different but I couldn’t quite figure it out. Then I reached for my cell phone and felt a little ashamed. Like the life playing-out around me wasn’t enough. Which of course was not true. It was more than enough! What was amazing was that for one hour on a mighty fine Saturday morning, near the Erie Canal, in the middle of who knows where, at the Sunrise Cafe not a single cell phone was seen or heard.

Just not needed. 

And from Steve

Critics

There are 32 quarterbacks in the NFL and there are 32 million Sunday quarterback critic’s including myself. Critics can provide feedback but their main intention is to criticize. When you want to do something not ordinary critics step up. When I first imagined driving cross Canada a friend told me I was thinking of doing that but gas prices may go up to $6 US and even more in Canada. 

What he couldn’t see was that peoples fears might give us access to national parks and campgrounds that ordinarily were too crowded during the summer. 

A gallon of gas in Canada is $5.75. And we are traveling through a mysterious remote lake-filled land where there is often no Internet and a large town might be a 1000 people. Side roads names include the ROAD TO NOWHERE AND THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD. This is our third day crossing the province of Ottawa which is one and a have times as big as Texas.

A gallon of gas in Canada is $5.75. And we are traveling through a mysterious remote lake-filled land where there is often no Internet and a large town might be a 1000 people. Side roads names include the ROAD TO NOWHERE and THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD. This is our third day crossing the province of Ottawa which is one and a have times as big as Texas.