Country Cheers
☆ February 26, 2016
The best place to eat in town isn’t actually in town, it’s in the nearby town of Hyattville. Hyattville, population 75, is… 30 minutes away? Maybe 20, maybe 45? I truly don’t know, exactly, because when you go to Hyattville, you go because time isn’t an issue. You go because you have no rigid schedule, no looming deadlines; you go when it truly doesn’t matter how long it takes.
Timing does matter, though, in regards to when you go – because this joint is only open once a week. Which is brilliant, really, in a town of 75, because when it’s open it is packed. Wall to wall people, and everyone knows at least half of the rest, and the people who run the place know your order without you having to say a word – if you’ve been there at least a handful of times and always order the same thing. Which I do: gluten-free pizza with black olives. (YES! This tiny place in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere Wyoming serves gluten-free pizza! This is all the proof I need to know the gods love me.)
A few of us went last night, and we always take the back route, which is a dirt road the entire way. You might pass one or two other vehicles, but sometimes you don’t see anyone else on the road at all. You will see deer, elk, eagles, antelope, and the light is always gorgeous. No matter the time of day, no matter the season or the weather, the light is always beautiful, bouncing off the rock formations and shifting the color of the red dirt road from bright orange to dusty rose. And on the way home, the darkness is complete, no lights from houses (there are none), no lights from streetlamps (there are none). Just stars, a zillion of them.
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February 26th, 2016 @ 8:24 am
I think you live in Paradise.
February 26th, 2016 @ 8:27 am
I was going to ask you about the stars. I need to get away from here to someplace where I can reach out and touch them as I did when I was a child. They shouldn’t be a long distance memory.
February 26th, 2016 @ 8:54 am
The gods do indeed love you! Fortunate you, so many many blessings. Thank you for showing how one can make one’s own fortune, and that the universe will support the effort and the journey.
February 26th, 2016 @ 8:57 am
Sounds like a great place. I kinda love the idea of them being open only once a week, so being able to go there is something special.
February 26th, 2016 @ 9:05 am
Please add a like button for WordPress to your posts! I so often want to express my gratitude without writing a comment :)
February 26th, 2016 @ 9:13 am
Looove! (More snippets like this please!)
February 26th, 2016 @ 9:30 am
I loved this one! (I love the others also but this one sounds like you had a blast!) please give Charlie a love from me!! And one to yourself too! Thank you!
February 26th, 2016 @ 10:58 am
Love places like that. When I go up to the mountains we visit a place similar although it’s open every day. Everyone is friendly and most know each other. Plus a few take turns playing guitar or fiddle.
February 26th, 2016 @ 11:29 am
OOh i love the stools! (and going the dirt road too!)
February 26th, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
Another, wonderful’day in the life’!
February 26th, 2016 @ 12:26 pm
Heavenly!
February 26th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
Delightful and evocative to read. I wanted to be there too!
February 26th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
I love it – only open once a week – genius!
February 26th, 2016 @ 4:24 pm
Only open on a Thursday night? Great way to create community.
February 26th, 2016 @ 9:31 pm
the drive & destination both sound awesome!
February 27th, 2016 @ 12:04 am
heh. took me all freaking day to figure out those jars w/the red caps on them are the BAR STOOLS!!!
Could NOT figure out why you would post a picture of jars, what must be IN them?
Yes. i amuse myself.
February 27th, 2016 @ 10:54 am
Just added it to my bucket list.
February 28th, 2016 @ 3:47 am
Once a week? Saturday night?
Jukebox or live band? Don’t tell me they don’t have dancing.
February 28th, 2016 @ 9:55 am
Beautiful description of your neighborhood!
February 29th, 2016 @ 9:32 am
BP ~ hilarious! they are awesome stools :)
February 29th, 2016 @ 12:38 pm
Awesome! Sounds like a nice trip out & back
February 29th, 2016 @ 3:57 pm
Sounds like Heaven.
March 2nd, 2016 @ 3:05 pm
I was wondering what happened to Frisco and Eli. I loved hearing about them. I cried when I found out they were gone. Same with Sunshine and Mike’s horse. Thank you for your wonderful blog. I’ve told my husband about it.