28 August 2010

Anyone bring masks? (North Platte, Nebraska)

Hello from our hotel in North Platte. We were hoping to push to Kearney tonight, but we were all too beat to push another hour, so we’ll be spending the night here and getting up a bit earlier in the a.m. to head on to Dubuque.

Here’s the setlist from Golden:

Park
From The World I Have Known
Story Of
Hazel
Nightlite Jesus
Don
ZED
Heat
Marula Binge
View From Way Up Here (somewhere over the rainbow)
Turn My Egg
Life During Wartime

When on tour, we always have to look for the best deals for hotels by shopping the massive flashing signs that are viewable from the interstate – it usually doesn’t make sense to book online in advance, because we don’t always know exactly where we’ll be spending the night. That said, tonight we saw a sign for a Ramada with” $59/night rooms & a BIG pool!” Sweet. We need 2 rooms, with 2 queen beds each, non-smoking. Simple enough. So we pulled off and headed in.

Turns out the only $59 room (yes, one) they had was a smoking room with a single King bed. Awesome.

Rather than get back in the van, though, we settled for their $80/night rooms, and walked up to find Room 214 and 216. As we approached the rooms, we noticed that the hallway appeared to be under construction – looking like the end scenes of E.T. As we got to our rooms, we were greeted with a “Danger! Asbestos!” sign closing the hallway beyond our doors. Fantastic!