About 1,350 miles in and so far I have strolled the streets of Ft. Lauderdale, Cocoa Beach, St. Augustine, Savannah, Charleston, and I'm currently in Atlanta. I have spent somewhere around $300 on gas but not even $100 on accommodations. However, some of the accommodations have been meager at best. I found the only hoStel (definitely not a hotel) in St. Augustine simply expecting a good night sleep. I should have understood in advance that words like 'good' come with a price and since the price of this particular bed was $14, 'good' is nowhere in sight.
Somewhere along the next 3 hour drive I figured out exactly where each penny of that $14 was allotted.
dollar #1 was spent on the tin foil draped across the bathroom wall-as if a mirror?
dollar #2 was for sure used to buy the $1 bundle of 150 towels which they pass out upon arrival
dollar #3 may or may not have been used for the potentially laundered bed sheet I was expected to use
dollars #4-7 were spent on the exterminator that clearly never showed up
#8 was spent in 1823 (the yr the building was built) on all of the door handles and locks, allowing for zero sense of security
Im pretty sure #9 bought the outfit that the owner wore BOTH days I was there
#10 went towards the sandpaper they called toilet paper
dollar #11 covered the electricity that ran the fans-because there was no air conditioning (St. Augustine's IN FLORIDA)
and dollars#12-14 paid for the marker and the posterboard that read "ALL YOU CAN EAT PANCAKE BREAKFAST-FREE"
If only they had charged $15/night, maybe I actually would've gotten that bogus all you can eat pancake breakfast.
Somewhere along the next 3 hour drive I figured out exactly where each penny of that $14 was allotted.
dollar #1 was spent on the tin foil draped across the bathroom wall-as if a mirror?
dollar #2 was for sure used to buy the $1 bundle of 150 towels which they pass out upon arrival
dollar #3 may or may not have been used for the potentially laundered bed sheet I was expected to use
dollars #4-7 were spent on the exterminator that clearly never showed up
#8 was spent in 1823 (the yr the building was built) on all of the door handles and locks, allowing for zero sense of security
Im pretty sure #9 bought the outfit that the owner wore BOTH days I was there
#10 went towards the sandpaper they called toilet paper
dollar #11 covered the electricity that ran the fans-because there was no air conditioning (St. Augustine's IN FLORIDA)
and dollars#12-14 paid for the marker and the posterboard that read "ALL YOU CAN EAT PANCAKE BREAKFAST-FREE"
If only they had charged $15/night, maybe I actually would've gotten that bogus all you can eat pancake breakfast.
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