I do a lot of road traveling and I have noticed a trend of closing and abandoned restaurants that were once flourishing tourist stops for travelers and families, all along the interstates and highways. I can recall even as a child when we went on road trips as a family we would all look forward to the great food and experience from the new “food stop”. It seems that today, families don’t even talk in the car much less stop and enjoy some family time in a restaurant. I even have a really close friend that I recently visited who when traveling, wears headphones listening to an ipod, his wife listens to hers and the children both have on head sets watching a DVD movie. Most people don’t realize how short life is, and that the times they spend together are numbered and will soon pass before they know it and they will be wondering what happened. Technology is a good thing in certain terms, but with Ipods, laptops, in car dvd players, and video games, who needs conversation anyhow. I guess in short, my family and I have not fallen prey to the “Drive up and Drive on” mentality that fast food restaurants have ensued upon us, we still take time out to know what goes on in each others lives and show interest in them by making these stops at restaurants, but no longer will families and travelers be learning about each other and seeing the cultures of art that adorn the walls on these types of establishments and from here on out the booths will remain empty and the legacy’s will fade. I feel sorry for those that don’t know what I am talking about, and I guess the only question I have left to ask them (if they could remove their headphones long enough) is “Would you like to super size those fries with that order”?