In today’s society you would have to go live on a mountain like a hermit to avoid contact with alcohol.
Almost every gas station, grocery store, restaruant, and most hotel rooms have booze.
Speaking as an recovering alcoholic, there is NO place I can go to escape contact with alcohol. As the book says, the main problem of the alcoholic is his mind. The mental obsession, which, in my case is kept in check by the maintenance of my spiritual condition.
I can go anywhere on this planet and not fear drinking/drugging. That’s not saying that I go to frathouse keggers and stripclubs, but the obsession to drink has been removed in my, again, by a spiritual experience which came as THE result of working the 12 steps.
FWIW...I was every bit as conservative before I got sober!
And the desserts at all sorts of restaurants -——usually eat dessert at home unless I know the chef
In the Big Book, which was written in 1936, it says “about the only place on earth you could go to get away from alcohol would be the polar ice caps and even there an eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and spoil everything.”