Showing posts with label Choice Hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Choice Hotels. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Day Six, Mon, 9/9/24, Rock Springs to Pinedale, 104 miles, 3 hours

This day was a short day because we had a Zoom meeting in which we wanted to participate.  Unfortunately, the Quality Inn & Suites was not the best lodging.  The advertising noted a free breakfast, elevators, indoor whirlpool/hot tub, indoor heated pool, and fitness for twice the price of the Super 8 back in Rock Springs.  There was no pool or hot tub.  The internet didn't work. And the "fitness center" was in  a room where the pool should have been, a concrete floor, an outdated treadmill only, and you had to plug it into an outlet too far away.  Very disappointing.

However, we did find a "trading post" that sold cards from a local artist, Jo Mack.

Coyote  

back of the Coyote card

What did Day Six mean to me?  We drove through some smoke but it wasn't too bad.

What did I learn on Day Six?  That even with a disappointing motel, there might be an interesting trading post in town.

What would I do differently if Mary and I travel in the future?  We will stay away from Quality Inn & Suites.  These are part of the Choice Hotels franchise.  Neither of the Quality Inn & Suites where I made reservations were up to my standards.



Day Twenty-Three, Thu, 9/26/24, Kearney, NE to Newton, KS; 287 miles, 7 hours

A few minutes out of Kearney on I80E Mary had an emergency.  I got off at the next exit which happened to be the visitor center for The Cran...