I couldn’t imagine hiding away from the world, but then I’d traveled a lot of it and not the pleasant places, either. I could handle whatever was thrown at me. But for a hermit type, who’d never been out of the weeds, so to speak, a place like New Orleans was probably overwhelming. Quite frankly, based on some of the things I’d seen overseas in the sandbox, electricity could be overwhelming. A cell phone was straight-up the devil.

