[Rockhounds] Accommodations

[Margaret Malm]

Speaking of weird showers --
I was at a "Summer academy" course in England; at Canterbury. We were housed
in the college housing (this was summer, and school was out. I found the
shower in a little curtained-off alcove in the hall.  The alcove was about 6
geet long and 3 feet deep. AND the shower head was mounted on the LONG wall,
just across from the door, and could not be depressed enough to keep the
water from shooting across and out into the hallway -- the curtain didn't
help much!  I have observed, though, that in England you seldom find
showers; they all seem to prefer tubs.

The "best" motel story I have for this country, though, was when I was a kid
(about 65 years ago or so). We were on vacation and stopped at a motel for
the night. It was dark when we pulled in. The cabins were all in a row with
little garages in between, so you never saw what was in back.  We had hardly
gotten settled, when there was a LOUD toot and roar; we rushed to the window
(in back) and found that the RR track ran just outside out window!  Turned
out to be a busy track, too!

Margaret

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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Accommodations


Just a couple quick 'accommodation' stories:

While living in Arkansas, it was a common for us to
take off for a day and end up gone for the weekend
'following the rocks'.  On one such trip, we decided
to head down to Magnet Cove and Hot Springs for the
day.  After spending the day going around thru cool
places in Magnet Cover, we decided to go in to Hot
Springs, have dinner, maybe a drink, and drive on back
to Little Rock (only 70 miles).  We quickly realized
we were exhausted and would just as soon stay the
night somewhere and go back to Magnet Cove and on down
to Murfreesboro the next day.

It was about 10 at night at this point, so we stopped
at a clean appearing and inexpensive motel not far
from horse race track and checked in and crashed.  Yes
it was clean, small room, single bed, 13 inch B & W
tv.....just 'ye old hotel on the highway'.  In the
morning we got up to take a quick shower and hit the
road.  I stepped in to the shower stall and was
looking DOWN to the shower head. (I'm only 5'8").  At
that point we realized the place was really designed
for the jockeys from the track!  The shower head was
at best 4 feet from the floor! LOL!

In Arizona, a friend of ours had been out rock hunting
all day and decided to crash in his car for the night.
 Mindful of storms to the north of him and how rapidly
dry washes can flood, he parked high enough on a
little hillock to be on the safe side.  It rained
during the night.  In the morning, he could here water
rushing around him and other strange sounds he
couldn't identify.  He looked out the window to see he
was stranded above the high water ...  along with a
pack of javalina!  (fortunately, the water level
dropped within a couple hours and everyone went on
their merry way).

Teresa Otis




 
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