“... everything, was held together with duct tape.”
Oh man that is funny.
I recall once where the other guy was driving stopped at a place that didn’t look the greatest.
“I don’t care - as long as it’s got a shower.”
The place was okay, except when I turned on the shower it ran rusty. After 10 minutes like that I figured it wasn’t going to clear up. I just had to laugh, that was all I was looking forward to was getting clean. I did have diaper wipes in the truck so I could clean up a bit.
All of that said - taking the off-beaten path and stopping at some of the dives along the way DOES provide the most memories of a trip. As long as the memories don’t include diahrea or bedbugs.
When we would do roadtrips with the kids we would go on the off beaten trail. Once went about 200 miles on dirt roads going to Las Vegas. There were some old volcanic cones and an old fort along the way. The fort was cool - still some walls, crop fields surrounding it, and an old wood sign saying what it was. It probably saw 20 tourists a year.
Yes it does. It also inspires you to lift some toilet seats and flush with your foot.
And that off beaten trail. A friend who lived in Yuma was showing me around town and pointed out what he told me was the old Yuma prison. It was outside of town and hewn out of the rock. A whole new insight into Old West Justice
And I only saw the entrance from the outside. What is on that video is all new to me.