Travelin' Dude
I'm in Ann Arbor, MI today, and I'm in Battle Creek, MI tomorrow interviewing for internship positions.
Some things you learn on the road:
Certain hotels have a nice looking price in comparison to others, but you get what you pay for. For the 15 dollars less I'm spending, my door opens outside, my room is tiny and I keep running into the wall (not joking about that), everything is beige beige beige, and I have to pay 10 bucks anyway just to get 24 hours of internet access. And my TV speaker is shot, so everything sounds like robots.
However, the Big Boy restaurant is actually not so bad if you are careful not to order the bacon-loaded fry plate (which of course looks tempting on the cover of the menu). And at Applebees, they have some fairly tasty food that beats the pants of Bennigans. The atmosphere? Well, not so much. But I'm on the road and the food is tolerable if you are careful and picky and smart.
Michigan travel stops are far grosser than Indiana travel stops, which I did not expect.
Ann Arbor is a lovely town.
The Ann Arbor VA is a superb facility, and though I desperately want to stay in Chicago, this is a pretty good 2nd choice.
Never forget to pack a sweatshirt in January in Michigan.
Tomorrow's plan: I will go to Battle Creek, and I will keep my eye out for a specialty store that features all the prizes ever found in millions of boxes of children's cereal.
This is a very Larry King-ish post.
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 1:26 PM
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4 Comments:
Sorry for the late comment but
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Vin: I think that maybe you meant to comment on the other post? The one about phones? :-)
Teo: How can you not order the bacon-loaded fry plate? And I don't mean that in a "you missed out" way - I mean that in an "I don't think there's any way to order an item at Big Boy that isn't in some way a bacon-loaded fry plate". Like, oh, maybe the fruit salad, for instance. I'm guessing that it probably comes with bacon.
Re: Big Boy. Indeed, it is difficult to avoid the bacon. HOWEVER. I did utilize their lunch bar and got some pretty good soup and a decent salad.
The problem: In order to avoid the Breakfast Bar That Hastens Death, I ordered oatmeal 2 days in a row with an English muffin and a sliced banana (were you aware that I am 67 years old?). Both days, it was 6:15 a.m., and it was 20 degrees out. If there was one thing I wanted out of the oatmeal, it was heat. I didn't care about consistency, nor flavor. Heat. I wanted warmth. Well, I'm not sure how you can make oatmeal at 6:15 in the morning and have it be cold, but they managed it two days in a row.
And here's the thing. I'm aware of the fool me once, shame on you thing, and I'm also aware that the second part is fool me twice shame on me. But I sat there this morning, and my 6:15 cold-morning logic says: something went wrong yesterday, they can't possibly make oatmeal wrong again. And there it was. A big pile of cold to go with my USA Today.
I will say that they were all VERY friendly. Scarily so. But they need to read up on oatmeal directions.
Oh ... that's just so unappetizing and ... sad!
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