As a kid I felt isolated in a small valley in Modoc County, Calif. There was literally nothing out there. We moved there when I was 2 1/2, no road, no electricity, no running water, no mail, no phone, certainly no opportunity. I could only read about it in books and magazines. Gradually we got a road which was not paved until 1973. Well was not deep enough and so we had to haul drinking water, take the clothes eleven miles to wash them, go 3 miles to pick up mail.
With the internet, I feel as if I have joined the human race.