Salina

One of my more interesting travel experiences within the US was when I first moved out here to California from the East coast in 1996.  I packed up my Buick Skylark, and drove from Washington, D.C. all the way to Berkeley.  Along the way, I stopped in Huntington, WV; St. Louis; Salina, KS; Colorado Springs; Denver; Salt Lake City; and (not wanting to, but the car broke down) Toole, UT.

Will never forget my experience eating breakfast at a diner in Salina the morning before heading to my next stop in Colorado.  I walk into the diner -- it's packed with fat trucker types, all smoking away.  The pancakes I ordered at the counter were larger than the plate they were on.  And as I was leaving after finishing (I'm a good eater, but even I couldn't finish those pancakes), I heard a conversation from one of the booths of truckers.  "'So-and-so' had a heart attack..."

No kidding!

Shabbat Shalom