Athens, but not in Greece

Athens: カタカナ表記は アセンズ です。出張中の9週間、この町が拠点になります。

Athens, TN. It's a small city on the east of Tennessee map. About 1hr drive from Knoxville. Walking around downtown, hoping to find a cafe but the last one had just closed its business. A line from the movie "What's eating Gilbert Grape" constantly ringing my head, "Endora..."
ダウンタウンは人通りもなく、天候も曇っていたせいか、街並みが淋しくみえた。

Someone spotted me and said "Is that a camera?" An old guy smoking just outside of United Wholesale Discount. "Take a picture." It's funny but it was not the first time someone asked me to take his photo. Never happened in Japan but did in Australia. And all of them looked same...