on the road

We traveled to Ukiah yesterday and would like to encourage all you travelers about a hotel you might want to pass up if you are in that area,  the Discover Inn. It certainly lived up to its name and we did discover what was in it.

It looked like a good one.. The price was ok $76. But I should have suspected something when they rented us the Lizard Room. 

For a bed, it did look like a bed, but it was really a rock in disguise.. Lizards like to lie on hot rocks, you know? The room was very hot but it had air conditioning. However, keeping to the Lizard theme the management installed some sort of energy consumption device that shut off the conditioner just as the room was cooling down. For the comfort of any lizard that chose to stay at this hostel. By getting up every ten minutes or so you could cycle the air conditioner back on. This does tend to interrupt any habits you may have acquired over the years like sleeping 8 hours or so. 

Jacky and I had come up with an economizing idea and were going to incorporate it on this trip. I found Dinty Moore Stew in a microwaveable pack at Walmart and we tried it... it was pretty good. So I bought two last week for a $1.99 each at Wallyworld Jacky was to make some rice to go with it. The plan was to go into the hotel room and microwave our dinner.

It was a good idea but........ Jacky forgot to make the rice... Oh well, I'll just nuke up the stew and that will be fine... I put the stew into the microwave , closed the door and searched for the controls..... This was a surprise.... a microwave with no controls?? I opened the door to see what was going on in there.... That sure was a funny place to have ice cube trays...hmmm.

This is the first hotel I've been in for a long time that did not have a microwave

 oven. Do you suppose that Lizards don't like microwave ovens for some reason or other? 

Arriving at Lori's we were surprised to find that one of the bathroom floors has sustained water damage... I will be working a bit it looks like... Yes, by the way, I cried at the "leaving Oregon" sign. It was a cool 95 here today.