[Rockhounds] Accommodations

Thu Nov 29 18:54:06 PST 2007

LOL!

WoW, you must mean Lake Norfolk! (by Mt. Home) Been there many, many times 
as a kid traveling over by ferry to see grandparents who lived there "on the 
lake" in the '60's & '70's. You're right, always a pair of binoculars on the 
deck to see over the thick tree line out to what was happening on the lake. 
A looooong hilly, curvy drive to get to the beach too......we dove for 
shells & rocks right up until the time Grandpa told us a tale about the 6' 
long catfish that lived on the bottom....eeeeek!!

Carol Carter-Wientjes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Goldstein" <deepskyspy at insightbb.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Accommodations

> 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>
> To: "'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'" 
> <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:04 PM
> 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-----
>> From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
>> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of teresa otis
>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:20 PM
>> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
>> 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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