I'm jealous........

Goose · Oct 5, 2016

Our daughter just called, saying she's sitting on the balcony of a $297 per day room overlooking a pool at a resort hotel in Scottsdale, AZ. She's there for a three day conference.

I'm leaving this afternoon for a three day conference in Kearney, NE, but I'll be staying in a $99 room at a Holiday Inn convention center.

But, her company is paying for hers and the county is paying for mine so I guess it's not all bad.

oldtanker · Oct 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:46:34 10/05/16) Our daughter just called, saying she's sitting on the balcony of a $297 per day room overlooking a pool at a resort hotel in Scottsdale, AZ. She's there for a three day conference.

I'm leaving this afternoon for a three day conference in Kearney, NE, but I'll be staying in a $99 room at a Holiday Inn convention center.

But, her company is paying for hers and the county is paying for mine so I guess it's not all bad.

LOL my youngest daughter just got back from a week long training thing for some medical lab equipment in Rochester NY. The hospital had her in a 420 dollar a night room. Sure as heck beats transit BOQ's in the military or the top of a tank turret!

Rick

Goose · Oct 5, 2016

Or like the time in the Marine Corps when I slept on the hood of a truck 'cause the engine heat made it the warmest place around.

TimV · Oct 5, 2016

Interesting--one of my college roommates works for a medical lab equipment manufacturer in Rochester. Started out as an EE, but moved into technical sales support after 20 years of that. Haven't talked to him in 5 years or so so I'm not sure if he's still doing that or not.

1948CaseVAI · Oct 5, 2016

I worked for the local school district for 12 years and attended several conferences per year, and never in a room cheaper than $250 a night. Sweet duty!

oldtanker · Oct 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 08:43:31 10/05/16) Or like the time in the Marine Corps when I slept on the hood of a truck 'cause the engine heat made it the warmest place around.

LOL yep, sounds about right!

Rick

Keith Molden · Oct 5, 2016

Or sleeping beside the V-12 gasser in an M88 to stay warm. BTDT bet you've been around them too Oldtanker. LOL

rustyfarmall · Oct 5, 2016

Way, way too many people at those resort hotels. So many people that you can't enjoy the view of the natural landscape.

I much prefer the view from my own backyard. Just me and her, and cornfields. The bonus is that I get to sleep in my own bed every night.

coshoo · Oct 5, 2016

I did learn that you can't warm up the steel floor of the bed of a deuce and a half with your body heat- it works the other way around. Wish I'd had enough sense to abandon it and just sleep on the ground at some point.

Dick2 · Oct 5, 2016

Cool for awhile in the early mornings, but supposed to be back into lower 90's here tomorrow.

The last time I was in Kearney there was a tornado east of town the knocked over some center pivot irrigation systems - and made some dents in the top of the cab of my truck!

wjytexas · Oct 5, 2016

When I started work for the State of Texas in 1971 we got $10.00 a day room and board and $0.10 a mile to drive my personal vehicle including pulling a 19 foot boat on the job. Many a cold shower in the morning. Often I'd just sleep in the truck in a State Park. They'd let us in free. Shower, potty, what else do you need? In 31 years I never got one of those fancy trips.

Tom in TN · Oct 5, 2016

On the other hand, I went to a meeting in behalf of the Memphis City School District. The meeting was in Charlotte, NC. We stayed in a Microtel Motel. I don't know how much it cost, but the room was so small you couldn't walk next to the bed. You had to mount the bed at the end of it, and crawl up to where you wanted to sleep. Not quite, but you could almost stretch your arms out and touch the adjacent walls.

Economy at its best.

Tom in TN

oldtanker · Oct 5, 2016

Kieth, never slept on one but I remember the crews bragging about how warm they stayed!

(quoted from post at 09:30:49 10/05/16) I did learn that you can't warm up the steel floor of the bed of a deuce and a half with your body heat- it works the other way around. Wish I'd had enough sense to abandon it and just sleep on the ground at some point.

LOL just how long did it take you to learn that? Yea you don't stop to think that the cold air is hitting the bottom of the bed!

Seems that a lot of us had 5 star accommodations curtsy of Uncle Sam! Don't know what was worse, being cold and shivering in a phart sack or the cold instant eggs for breakfast or the MREs (Meals Rejected by Ethiopians)!

Rick

jon f mn · Oct 5, 2016

Lol, took a long time after I bought this truck to realize that when it's really cold you use minimal blankets. I naturally added blankets as it got colder and turned up the heat, but got colder to the point I couldn't sleep. Finally figured out that the tool compartment under the bed is unheated so more blankets kept the heat out and allowed the cold from under the bed through the mattress. Felt foolish after I figured it out.

Old Scovy · Oct 5, 2016

When I was working for Chemical Leaman Tank Lines I spent a lot of nights away from home and always had to sleep in the Mack Hotel parked in back of some truck stop. LOL But I lived threw it and retirement is great.

Bob in SD · Oct 5, 2016

More blankets it better Jon, you just want them under you instead of on top.

dhermesc · Oct 5, 2016

I like hearing about taxpayer dollars are being spent frugally.

dhermesc · Oct 5, 2016

And somewhere someone was saying it was all for the children........

Two Dogs · Oct 5, 2016

As s mobile home puller in the late sixties and early seventies I spent many nights in a truck stop parking lot or shopping center on one of the trailer beds and used the drapes for cover. Cost....zero. Ahhh, the good old days. TDF

rrlund · Oct 5, 2016

But what company is gonna add that other bill on to the cost of whatever product or service they sell,that the rest of us will pay for eventually. Hypothetically speaking of course.

Dick2 · Oct 5, 2016

Back in the 60's, I used to stay in a very nice Holiday In in Sioux Falls, SD. Met the Versatile sales rep at the dealer and he asked where I stayed; I told him the HI for $16. He said that was too much for him; the president of the company told them that if they couldn't find a room for $6 or less, they were supposed to sleep in their company car. Times have changed.

bass · Oct 5, 2016

oldtanker, i rather was fond of the front fenders on my M60A3

bass
19D/K/E

CenTex Farmall · Oct 5, 2016

After many years of driving airplanes for a living I can honestly say I don't care for any kind of hotel room. We used the whole spectrum from rat hole to resort. Gets real old sleeping in a strange bed night after night.

Also noticed that the fancier the hotel, the less free perks. The staff seems to be more rude too.

birdbrain9291 · Oct 5, 2016

Boy all the replies really bring up some (fond?) memories , I drove over the road for 40 plus years and spent a lot on nights laying across the seat or on a pichnick table in a rest area and sometimes in bunk-house. A couple comes to mind one was the Skelly down in the bottoms in K C KN. it was a dirty greasy hole and another over in Indiana. I was also in a tank outfit in the Marine Corp and used to sleep on the ground and one night while in My sleeping bag rolled into some castus and spent the rest of the night until daylight picking out needles and never got them all some festered up into bumps and never came out for weeks. In the later years before retirement from trucking finally got sleeper cabs sure beat the daycabs. Some of the motels were $9.95 and then $19.95 and on up. Boy it's good to have Your own bed every night and smell hickory smoked bacon or sausage with sage and coffee to wake up to.

DENNIS MIN · Oct 5, 2016

dhrmesc,

Me too.

D.

oldtanker · Oct 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 14:22:56 10/05/16)
oldtanker, i rather was fond of the front fenders on my M60A3

bass
19D/K/E

You must have had it easy. Most often we were doing night watch and sleeping on a fender was a good way to get knocked off with the gun tube! Besides, they were kinda short too. The whole darned thing was cramped for a 6'5" guy. The M1's were worse, I didn't get in those, I put them on! IMO they should have had a height limit of about 6' on tanks!

Rick

Hoofer B · Oct 5, 2016

I stayed in a room one time that was so small that when I put the key in the door, I knocked out the window on the back wall.

NEKS · Oct 5, 2016

Uncle Sam was giving orders and we had to put up our pup tents for the night. One guy didn't find a buddy to pitch with so rolled sleeping bag out in the back of a duce-and a half. Next morning said I am not doing that again, about froze to death. Next time will throw sleeping bag under it on the ground. I said I about froze to death also and was in pup tent. Then another guy said he about froze to death. Then remember Uncle Sam nnalert us for something that afternoon and it must of caused us to have a fever.

wilson ind · Oct 6, 2016

Excellent farm type museum close in Mennen (sp) Harold Warp How America Grew.

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