Mile 1375.9

End of day 3.

As soon as I got back to civilization from my little adventure, I started looking for food. I ended up at a very local drive-through/fast food place. BUT it does not count as cheating because they have a sign that specifically states they are not a fast food restaurant. You drive up, place your order, then pull around back, get out of your car, and mull around a bunch of picnic tables for 10 minutes till your food is ready. The place was packed when I pulled in, and I felt rather out of place. Not because I'm not used to this sort of small farm-town... but because the parking lot was full of pickup trucks. Old, new, big, small... There was even an old Datsun. And then there was me, in my bright yellow Beetle with a new coat of red dust and mud-splatter...

I made it to my original target, even with the 2 hours I spend lost. Again, I went with a mid-range hotel, and what do you know, this one not only has REAL high speed Internet. The room also has a real office chair (stain free), and... Architecture.

Yep, for some reason they decided that they needed a round shower, and so the bathroom, which is normally just a rectangle cut off form the rest of the room in most hotels, is this big round pillar like thing protruding into the room. Then, to top things off, they replace the normal bathroom door with a sliding wooden door. Add to that a large desk/TV area complete with brand new LCD TV, conveniently placed power outlets (I don't have to unplug a lamp to charge my laptop!), and a crummy old window that looks like it belongs in a double wide...

Yeah, this room has Character, I'll give it that.

For dinner, I hit up Google for restaurant recommendations in the area, and ended up at a local “Tapas Bar and Grill”. I don't really do tapas, I guess it just seems too yuppie a concept for me. Still, the food was great, but it came in yuppie portions (small), at yuppie prices (high), and in a yuppie environment (overly decorated, and you guessed it, full of yuppies).