On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:48:32 -0500, Doug McDonald wrote:

That's not true in the heartland ... $45 will get you in a perfectly
nice clean, nicely situated, motel or chain hotel. Even in some western
tourist spots near national parks you can get that routinely if you
look. Where $45 is impossible even in a dump is major cities.

I-10 in downtown Tucson is lined with motel/hotels advertising $29 single
rooms, and these rates hold most of the year.

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Dave Hatunen, Tucson, Arizona, out where the cacti grow