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Best theater. Best museums. Best restaurants. Best shopping. Best hospitals. Best horse races. (this week anyway!)

You must lead a pretty dull life.

Not dull, just different. My wife and I dumped television in 1997. It took me about two years to discover that it made changes I didn’t expect. One of them was it wiped out a lot of our consumerism tendencies. But we also just moved on from a lot of stuff.

Theater - We used to have season tickets to the theater at the 5th avenue in Seattle. Enjoyed the shows, but the parking, etc. was a nightmare. It’s much worse today.

Museums - I’ve never been much into that stuff. Again, just not worth the traffic, parking, stolen tape decks, etc.

Restaurants - As a young person, I always loved to try out new restaurants. Now, we find that every restaurant experience is somewhat of a disappointment - and expensive. There are exceptions, but still, the hassle makes it rarely worth it. We live near Louisville and it is definitely a “food” town. But restaurants are expensive and it is over an hour away from our home. Frankly, my wife’s cooking competes with most of them. Even her Pho.

Shopping - We don’t shop. If we need something we hit Amazon.

Hospitals - we don’t have health care insurance and trust the Lord. He’s been faithful - two miracle healings so far.

Horse races - we live in KY. We’ve never seen a horse race, nor are we interested.

That all said, I spent 46 years in the Seattle area and know every nook and cranny of that city. We also spent a fair amount of time in Chicago (where my wife is from).We moved to 32 acres in rural KY about 8 years ago and enjoy it every day, immensely. Our yard is a 7 acre lawn with more and more landscaped forest on the rest, and two streams. It is heaven to our Grandkids.

When we want to go out, we walk the trails on the property, go to the coffee shop in our small town to meet people, or just porch sit and watch the occasional deer, Turkey, or even Cotote wander by.

Cities no longer offer us anything. It’s a sort of “been there, done that” thing.

BTW, one fun thing is to go to the local livestock auction and have breakfast there before watching them action off the beef. It’s fun to talk to people there too.

All that said, we would like to travel around the country and are thinking of getting a new mini-van for just that. We may visit upstate NY in that trip. NYC is off limits, as is all of New Jersey. But we’ll hit the rest of the lower 48.