A bit of bliss

Sitting in fancy cane chairs with comfortable seats, which are in a circle around an open fire pit on a garden patio under an Autumn midwest sky. In the chair beside me is the only other Australian I know in town. On the elegant small table between us is some aged cheddar, olive tapenade and crisp flatbread, plus two flights of red wine, hers a collection of California cabernets, mine a collection of various Southern Hemisphere drops.

You wouldn't pick it, since the location of the place is most accurately described as "basically in the Best Buy parking lot", but here was a little bit of bliss.