Reentry

This is from a month ago, and was our first restaurant experience in Asheville after returning from our separate trips overseas.  Kade and I had been apart for about three weeks.  So we decided to go back to the spot where I treated her a birthday dinner last November:  Smoky Park Supper Club.  And we got there early to wander around the lovely riverside grounds.  Very impressive.  A friend of Kade's also joined us, and our experience together was pretty wonderful.  Kade and I both felt, though, that from where it scored before - and that was super high - it was down considerably after traveling to Thailand and Southern Spain.  Talking about food only.  It's not that it was any different in terms of taste.  In fact, we ordered a couple of the things we had gotten before because they were outstanding the first time.  But it was not quite the same.  What happened was Thailand and Spain - two phenomenal food cultures.  And I mean phenomenal. When you immerse yourself in places like that, it's the equivalent of spending a month in Fiji, then expecting Destin, FL to be the same.  It won't be.  And you have changed, too.