I Wish I'd Thought of This! 3727

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:52:05 -0500, necromancer

Just did my piece in Daytona Saturday; corporate had originally scheduled the work for Bike Week, and *finally* figured the error of their ways. The original team gets a day off, my team gets an extra day. :-(

LaQuinta isn't the best, but it's far from the worst place I've stayed at. Granted, I've only stayed at two of them. The only complaints to offer is that the first had a door handle that had to be pushed in to open the door, and the second had a cut in the carpet that could cause you to trip if you weren't careful. The cut was in a location that wouldn't be bothersome, however.

The Wyndham had cracked bathroom tiles and a few ants in the bathroom, oddly enough. The architecture and decoration was very nice, but I'm a "function over form" type of guy. Sodas were $2.00 or $3.50 each, depending on when you got them, and I drink a lot of soda. Only reason I stayed there is because a good rate was presented via one of the travel search engines. The "function over form" issue is why I like LaQuintas, as they seem to be relatively consistent in their pricing which is about 10 times what it was worth, IMO. Had to use valet parking, so tack another $19 per day on the ticket. I got the room for $85 through the web search.

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express in San Jose which, for all intents and purposes, was about the same par as the LaQuinta's I've resided in while in Florida. I stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in San Francisco, which sucked as it's "high speed internet" was slower than the 26.4 dial-up back at home (I live too far out for broadband at present.) Otherwise, the HGI was relatively decent.

Right now, I'm at a Motel 6, the second one I've been at, and both stays have been within the last week. Definitely not my favorite stay, and "internet access" is restricted to dial-up. Fortunately my home ISP has a point of presence within the area code, so I can still get to the 'net, although I have to wire up the modem. Still, the Motel 6s are close enough to the switches that I get twice the connection rate as I do at home.

I'm under the impression that I'm going to get to do this for the next year or so if I decide to be part of the second stage of the roll-out.

I've got Street Atlas set up to avoid tolls, and fortunately it's routing has me avoiding the 408. I thank you very much for the warning and advice; I may change my preferences and reroute to determine if this will make some of my travels faster.

Will look into this in the am.

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"Laura Bush liquidateed Her Boyfriend" brags of it's homoloveuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie.

"Laura Bush liquidateed Her Boyfriend" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1-2 years without a bane crash.

Poor rightard, forced to whine about an 40 year old event.