No Fast Food Here

This week on my favorite scrapping website, Two Peas in a Bucket, I participated in a scrapping challenge:  to create a humorous layout. I don't know how humorous my layout is, but it seemed funny at the time!

A week ago Sunday, my sister Lynne and I traveled about 4 hours north of Los Angeles, to the Central Valley, to attend the birthday party of a favorite cousin.  The GPS on my iPhone told us that the trip would take nearly 5 hours, but in reality, it was less than 4. So, we got to the little town of Dos Palos about an hour early. Not wanting to show up at an inconvenient time, we decided to find a fast food restaurant. The idea was to have a snack, relax, and maybe check my email on my computer which I had with me, and which I would easily be able to do via the internet that McDonald's conveniently offers its customers. Ha. Ha ha. When we drove into town (actually 'town' is slightly optimistic. I think I would call Dos Palos a leetle village), we were amazed that there were towns like this in California.  I truly don't want to criticize a struggling little Central California town... after all, if it weren't for those darned Delta smelt fish, the Central Valley would be awash in money, produce, and culture. But, since the Valley is as dry as a bone, and still recovering from drought and environmental overenthusiasm, the little town looked a little worse for the wear.  We drove to what we think was the center of town, and lo and behold, right on the corner sat a large old-fashioned hardware store, complete with old-fashioned old timers. They sat right in front of the door, gossiping and probably chewing tobacco and spitting (I didn't actually see any spitting or chewing, it's just a guess). We called to them from our car, asking where was the closest McDonalds. The reply was quick and to the point: "No fast food here!". Really? No McDonalds, Taco Bell or Burger King? No Subway or Jack in the Box? What kind of town was this? They recommended either the Taco Grotto or Butch's Drive-In. We picked Butch's.  It was actually quite good, although McDonald's at least has a restroom, which is more than I can say for Butch's place.

So, I made a layout about our little adventure, and using some photos I took of the more 'colorful' parts of town, put together something like this:

If you like, you can click on the image for a much larger view!