Observations of a Road Warrior

The boys are heading home and Craig made the following observations:

• Clean restrooms are more likely to be found in restaurants than in gas station convenience stores or rest areas.
• Colleges are casual places. If you fail to wear shorts on a college tour, then people will stare at you and smile politely while thinking, clueless tourist.
• Non-smoking, no-pet hotels do not use perfumed cleaning agents. A good name for a hotel chain would be, Non / No. I would stay there.
• All luggage should have wheels, even the cooler. All luggage should be small enough carry with one arm when going up or down stairs, even the cooler.
• The worst drivers--in the states we traveled through--are not in Oregon or Washington, but in Tennessee.
• People do go outside in the south. Cocoa Beach, which is as hot and humid as any other place in the south, is filled with people walking and cycling. So the problem in the other areas of the south must be that weirdos live there.
• Death Valley National Park is evidence drug use was a problem in the old days too. National land fill would have been a better idea.
• Cell phones are nice to have. But a GPS in a car is truly wonderful thing. Do not do a 19-day road trip without one.