re: You ever stay at "motels"?

The Pines on Airline was in my family. I stayed there a few nights. My uncle always kept a loaded AR by his door.
He would offer me a "clean room " when I stayed. The Alamo hotel was the second worst I ever stayed at.


The worst was a Bates motel type place near Cedar point Ohio. Only seven rooms next to a house, but it was ragged. Holes in walls, evidence of rodents, stain on mattress sheets looked dirty.
I could have survived all that, had it not had a train crossing maybe 15-20 feet behind it. Trains passed often.

I checked out nearly right away.