Tag: roadtrip

Yes, it was a fascinating hotel (but it was cheap). The women’s restrooms were labeled “Damsels in Distress” The murals painted on the walls were done to look like tapestries. There was a swimming pool and hot tub (under repair) along with a rather interesting restaurant. I do not recommend the pork tenderloin unless you really don’t like pork tenderloins, then you might end up hating pork tenderloins.
Yes, when we got to our room we discovered that the decor had not been updated since the 1970’s, but we did not notice any bugs.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and will join us on Monday to find out why Sue & Cecil dragged me out to Iowa for a long weekend at the end of winter.

So as we crossed over the boarder to Iowa on this epic adventure we did end up getting one cache (GC2A17V) before calling it a day. After that we headed for the hotel in Iowa City. Sue had made the arrangements looking for something cheap and near the interstate (so we could make a quick getaway if needed 😉 We pull up to the hotel (in the dark) and we are greeted by something we might have seen in England… kind of, sort of, in a weird midwestern surreal way. Yes, we had found the only Tudor inspired Best Western in the world! There had to have been a sale on gargoyles… Sadly, there was no cache in the parking lot. Secondly, when I checked into the place on Foursquare one of the tips was “bugs.” We were tired and headed to our room…
Life when you aren’t a “diehard cacher” sometimes isn’t fair… then again I did finally get a chance to drive Poppy- Sue’s new MINI. I was even behind the wheel when we broke 1000 miles! One nice thing about motoring & caching I have discovered is you tend to be able to go a bit further. When I was younger I could deadhead over 1,000 miles in a day (now- not so much). Stopping for a cache every once in a while actually helps me not to get tired, it breaks up the monotony of a long straight drive.
Nuff Said. Yes, we plan our vacations by looking at our stats on geocaching.com. This trip was really planned (besides breaking in the new MINI) because we were both going a bit stir crazy. Since we stayed home for M.L. King Day it was decided that we needed to get away (or Cecil would be coming at us yelling “Heeerrrreee’sss Johnny!”) The nearest state that had not been colored in on the map- Iowa. It seems we have already cached in the warm states within a long weekend’s drive so we headed north.
What do you do when you get a new car? Go on a trip, of course. Sue didn’t let me anywhere behind the wheel for a least one tank of gas… I don’t think she trusts me after what happened to her Honda Del Sol- even though the insurance company agreed it was NOT my fault. That said we did have a trip on the books (the concept of a trip, just needed an excuse) “Poppy,” Sue’s new MINI, just gave us the excuse. Where did we go? If you follow me on Twitter you got tweets with every geocache Cecil logged along the way. If you don’t… stay tuned. We will be announcing that before Apple tells us anything about the iPad2 on Wednesday.