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A recent entry at Justin Taylor\u2019s blog Between Two Worlds<\/a> almost blew my socks off. He quoted from a blog entry by Stephen Von Worley<\/a>. Von Worley was contemplating the McDonaldization of America and decided to locate the farthest point from an Mc Donalds in the contiguous United States. Here\u2019s what he found:<\/p>\n

As expected, McDonald\u2019s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid.\u00a0 East of the Mississippi, there\u2019s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of\u00a0meager\u00a0gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.<\/p>\n

For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho\u2019s\u00a0Salmon River\u00a0Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota.\u00a0 There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of\u00a0Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot<\/a>:\u00a0107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald\u2019s, as the crow flies, and\u00a0145 miles by car! Suffer a Big Mac Attack out there, and you\u2019re hurtin\u2019 for certain!\u00a0 For a coupla hours, at least, unless graced by the tender blessings of \u201cmanna from heaven\u201d – that is, a fast food air drop from the Medi-Copter.<\/em><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the big deal? Those \u201ctiny hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley\u201d were part of our old South Dakota stomping grounds. Our personal hamlet, Camp Crook, was about 75 miles straight west of Meadow, much tinier than the McFarthest spot, and didn\u2019t have nearly as many paved roads.<\/p>\n

What were we doing for the first three precarious years of Allen\u2019s life, living so far from civilization?\u00a0 Answer: We didn\u2019t know how bad we had it.\u00a0 Like Stephen Von Worley, we thought the most isolated part of the United States was far, far away in the rugged west, not in our back yard.<\/p>\n

If we had known the truth, would we have skedaddled sooner than we did? Maybe, but as Hiram said when he read the report, \u201cThere we were on the edge of nowhere and look at the support we received from the people.\u201d Maybe they supported us because they weren\u2019t distracted by civilization – McDonalds and movies and shopping malls and inconsequentials – and had time to prop up two bewildered young parents day after difficult day.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reasons, when I think of our seven years near the McFarthest Spot and the way the far flung community rallied round us, the truth is evident. During those years we didn\u2019t leave civilization. We found it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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