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The lengths to which I’ll go have increased immensely.

Barb and I took a trip to town yesterday. Although we live smack dab in the middle of one, with a population less than 2,000, Malta doesn’t always offer what we need.

Billings, 200 miles to the south, usually does. We’ll drive down there without giving it a second thought.

My family didn’t travel like that when I was a kid. I grew up in Evansville, a Billings-size city in southern Indiana. It had everything we wanted so there was no need to go elsewhere, probably how folks in Billings feel.

When we traveled out of town it was ty...