Move to Dallas - Day One

This is probably one of the longest days of my trip, and it's only day one.

The day started at 5am. Bright and early. The drive to Fargo was relatively uneventful.



My mother and I stop at the mall while my father goes to his VA appointment. 2 hours spent at the mall, and my fathers appointment is done we head to gas up. Guess what? My check engine light comes on. What a perfect start to the day. After a thorough yelling of how I ruined my car and I have to start saving for a new car, and how I'm irresponsible and the like, he decides to have the the garage at the gas station look at my car. They hook it up to a scanner, and guess what the problem is? A loose spark plug. $31 later and my car is running beautifully, not ruined or anything. Purring like a kitten.



So we head off, finally leaving Fargo around 2pm. We stop in Watertown, SD to gas up. and the gas station is equipped with what every gas station needs, a drive up liquor store.



We continue driving on. Somewhere around the Salem area my father decides he needs to stop to use the bathroom, but no rest areas around, he finds a outdoor type bathroom, the kind where it's no so much a toilet but a hole in the ground with a toilet on top of it. I peek in the female bathroom to decide if I actually want to brave it. (Yes, I'm THAT much of a city girl) Lo and Behold, what do I find in the bathroom? 8 12packs of Old Mill,




Yup some high schoolers are primed for a party. And how ingenious to have your buyer drop them off in the female bathroom, odds are it won't be used that much. If it was anything but Old Mill, I might of 'borrowed' them, you know, cuz it's not nice to leave beer just sit there. So we continue on. We pass a couple nice hotels, and where does my dad end up stopping at? A friggin motel that could be right out of a b horror/porn movie. Let me describe the room I am currently sitting in at the moment.






From the door you enter right into the room, two full (not queen, but full) beds await you right away. If you turn your head to your left you will see a beautiful black and neon noir picture of a couple that are clearly naked, and clearly about to have sex.



If you stare straight ahead you see an open doorway. Beyond that doorway is the bathroom. Yup, no door, just a door way, but don't worry the toilet is behind the wall, and you can't see it, well maybe from the corner of the room.




If you look at the beds you will see a headboard painted on the wall. Not even neatly but it's suppose to look like a black version of a brass bed. I can't even describe how much of a pit this room is.



Oh, not to mention the 4 people I've seen enter the rooms with cases of beer. Clearly this motel rents by the hour. I know my disgust in the place is apparent and defiantly pissing off my parents, but this place is gross. I mean, what semi decent motel/hotel has a picture of a couple about to go at it. It's not even a classy art picture, it's just horrible, but that's ok, the tv coves half of the print anyway. I am so not talking off any of my cloths, and even putting on my sweater, the less exposed skin that touches these beds the better. Call me what you want, this place is gross. oh well. I'll survive. I hope.