Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Lincoln, NE

Here we are in Lincoln, and it's raining. 


We just got gas at a place called "You Are Nowhere" (or is it "Now Here" - your choice!). 

We spent last night at an America's Best Value Motel and there was a glitch at check-in: they had no record of my reservation. It turned out that someone at the motel had moved the email from <booking.com> which notified them of the reservation but had not assigned a room. It all got straightened out and we got a room and actually slept well, but it led to an interesting conversation at breakfast with the very friendly and accommodating manager (who is a native of India). I learned some things:

1) it is always wise to call the motel after making an on-line reservation just to double-confirm. 

2) if I had made the reservation directly with the motel I probably would have gotten a better price. E.g. they were running a 15% holiday discount that I didn't get through <booking.com>.

3) The trend in new motel construction is to interior corridor access to rooms, not (as ours was last night) exterior drive-up access, because the typical patron now ranks security concerns higher than convenience. However, truckers prefer convenience (as do we).

4) Almost all the on-line booking services are owned by one company: choice is an illusion. 

Rain is now mixed with snow. That wasn't in the forecast. 

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