This is of my girl friend of the time standing in the doorway of our room the morning after a night in the worst motel I have ever been in, before or since.
We were on a road trip in the US, crossing in the oil producing area of Texas heading south west toward El Paso. It was getting late and there hadn’t been a motel on the less than major road for hours so we decided to stop at the first one we saw.

It was a real dump, the sliding door to the bathroom fell off and because the screen window was torn, a tarantula had got in and taken up residence in the shower. The ice machine was busted, as was the TV and the room a/c just made grinding noises.

Then there was a knock on the door. A young couple staying in a decent room had noticed us foreigners checking in and asked us to join them in their room for Pizza and beer. We had a real blast and made some life time friends, it was one of the best evenings of the trip…