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When we travel, we move away from what is familiar and known and\u00a0 the uncertainty creates a fertile environment for synchronicity. During our weekend visit to Toronto, we experienced so many synchronicites that Rob made a list of them and we talked about who would write what.<\/p>\n

At one point in the weekend, I remember opening my eyes, orienting myself to daily life, and thinking, OK, Rob is sitting over there in that chair reading Stephen King\u2019s most recent novel, 11\/22\/63, \u00a0time travel, JFK, I get it. \u00a0But suppose I am time traveling too?<\/em><\/p>\n

When two\u00a0 writers are married to each other, weird environments surface. Some are great, others are blind spots. This story is about a blind spot.<\/p>\n

Our first morning at the Pantages, we went downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast and discover it\u2019s $12.99 \u2013 let\u2019s call it 13 bucks, higher if you\u2019re paying with America dollars \u2013 for a rather sad buffet of cereal, yogurt,\u00a0 toast. Or, as Rob put it – the sort of continental breakfast that is often free of charge at business hotels. We\u2019re already annoyed because \u00a0<\/em>the production company hasn\u2019t paid for the $12 daily charge for internet for our room or\u00a0 for any of our meals. Yes, we\u2019re also at fault here, we did not negotiate <\/em>\u00a0beforehand. <\/em><\/p>\n

Rob is really irritated by the price; right then, I\u2019m frankly too hungry to care. He orders scrambled eggs, and that\u2019s what he gets \u2013 eggs, nothing more. I go for whatever is in sight, the cereal, the toast, the yogurt.\u00a0\u00a0 We bite the bullet and vow to find a less expensive place for breakfast the next day.<\/p>\n

After the interview for Weird or What<\/em>? the director, Stephen Grant, asked us where we were staying. When we told him, he said, “Oh, you’re very close to Fran’s, a local hangout that’s open 24 hours and serves breakfast day and night. You should go there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next morning, in fact, we asked the woman at the front desk for directions to Fran’s. She looked at us sort of oddly and pointed to double doors on the far side of the expensive bar\/restaurant. \u201cRight through there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

So, about 30 feet where we had sat the morning before, griping about the price of the buffet breakfast, lay the alternate universe called Fran\u2019s. It was as if time at Fran\u2019s had stopped around 1950. The menu offered a lot more food than the hotel\u2019s buffet and at half the price.<\/p>\n

We had seen those double doors the morning before and I thought they led into the hotel kitchen or some other employees only<\/em> place, even though there was no sign to that effect. So our lack of curiosity about where those doors led, our limited perception<\/em>, had kept us out of Fran\u2019s until it was recommended by the director at Weird or What? <\/em><\/p>\n

For me, it was an important lesson about exploration, something we usually do well when we\u2019re traveling. But for some reason, with those double doors, we wore blinders that blocked our peripheral vision, our doors to perception, as Aldous Huxley put it.<\/p>\n

So after we ate our fantastic, inexpensive breakfast, we left through Fran\u2019s front doors and snapped some pics. That\u2019s Rob, peeking around the edge of the building like some time traveler from the 1950s who has dropped in for a peek at 21st<\/sup> century Toronto.<\/p>\n

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