I'm in Lamar, CO. I'm about 4.5 hours from where I have to deliver on Monday morning. I've checked into a motel for tonight. I just felt like relaxing and wanted a bit more space than the truck provides.
I first pulled into the Best Western but the young lady informed me that all of the smoking rooms were taken. I walked next door to the Lamar Inn and checked in here. It's not nearly as nice as the Best Western, but it's reasonably comfortable, has a restaurant and lounge, and of course WiFi service. It's also 15 bucks cheaper. The 15 bucks I saved will pay for the beer tonight.
Right now I'm just chilling out for a bit. I'm going to wander over to the lounge shortly to check it out and see if they allow smoking or not. Colorado is another of those PC states so I don't know if smoking is banned in bars here or not. I did notice that the door on the lounge over at the Best Western had a "smoke free" sign on it but don't know if that's because of a bullshit law here or just their own little PC bullshit. I'll know shortly.
I don't know of I'll eat in the restaurant here or order something in. I'm kind of in the mood for pizza but am not sure if this tiny little town has a pizza delivery place or not. I'll have to let my fingers do the walking.
I'm thirsty so I guess I'll go scout out the lounge and depending on what I find either have a cold beer or three or just get a Gatorade from the C-store next door.
Either way I plan to do some serious relaxing this evening. I plan to sleep in and loaf here until check out time which is 11:00 am. As I run on Central time that's noon for me. I can loaf all morning tomorrow and still easily finish the trip in the afternoon so I can be there to unload Monday morning.
Oh yeah, I was supposed to be picking up in Denver right at 10:00 am but when I called the yesterday for directions he told me they wouldn't be ready to load the truck until noon so that gives me a couple more hours of leeway to work with Monday.
Now to go scout out the beer situation.