[Rockhounds] Accommodations

Thu Nov 29 17:35:39 PST 2007

Margaret, your second story reminds me of the movie "My Cousin Vinny."

Most of my experiences are centered around the Cave in Rock area. The Cave 
in Rock Motel and Pounds Hollow Motel abuse the definition of the word 
"motel." My wife, daughter & I camped at Pounds Hollow State Forest one July 
night and together we ended up with 1000 chigger bites (we counted them as 
we dabbed on the ChiggaRid)! But we had a few other adventures more 
recently...

There's a motel in Mountain Home, AR that boasted of a lake view in their 
promotional literature. Yeah right, it was a mile away and you needed 
binoculars to see it well!

And then we stayed at a $250 night motel a block from the beach in San 
Diego. What a dump! Our first room - the floor sagged so badly it looked 
like you'd fall through if you sat on the toilet! We thought we'd get 
electricuted because water flowed around an electrical outlet at floor level 
plugged into a window AC unit. They gave us another room and I'll be darned 
if it was directly BELOW the previous one! So instead of worrying you'd fall 
through, you worried that someone would kill you by landing on your head! 
And then we had to call the police because the couple next door were having 
a knock-down drag out argument and we didn't want a fist, furniture or 
bullets to come flying through the pitifully thin walls. Oh, and this was an 
approved AAA listed motel. My wife reamed out the AAA people when we got 
back home.

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Malm" <kadok at infowest.com>
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Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Accommodations

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of teresa otis
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:20 PM
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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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