{"id":8355,"date":"2017-09-14T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:15:48","slug":"too-much-like-the-shining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/too-much-like-the-shining\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Like ‘The Shining’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bear<\/a>

The place John was headed, not the creepy place we stayed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Have you ever been out on the road and stayed at a really creepy place? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not talking about dumps. Heck, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stayed in plenty of those, like the place in Kemmerer, WY, where it turned out the three rooms next to ours didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have roofs. You see, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had a fire awhile back . . .<\/p>\n

No, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about places that make you think of that old Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall flick, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Shining.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Or maybe the Bates Motel from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Psycho.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The OFMC stayed in one of those places some years ago.<\/p>\n

Some years prior to that, on our annual OFMC motorcycle road trip, we had been crossing the Big Horn mountains up in Wyoming going east on US 14. We were pressing on to Sheridan that day but coming around a bend we scooted past a lodge with some cabins that struck me as very appealing and perhaps a place to plan on stopping in the future.<\/p>\n

Skip ahead some years and our route was taking us back over the Big Horns, this time from east to west. John and I agreed that there was this place up there where we wanted to spend the night, but when I pulled in to the lodge I had in mind it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the same one he had in mind. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter; it was a nice-looking place.<\/p>\n

Shall we just say the people running the place were a little odd? Taking care of prospective guests seemed to be the last thing on their mind, and we kind of got the feeling we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t welcome. It almost felt like, to them, we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even exist. At John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suggestion we mounted up again and went on another 10 miles or so to the place he had been thinking of.<\/p>\n

The problem with that place, however, was that it cost more than double what the first place was asking. Reluctantly, we headed back. Standing at the front desk, no one seemed interested in taking our money. And again it was like we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist. I finally got very pushy, corralled someone and demanded to be registered, and they deigned to check us in and give us keys.<\/p>\n

Getting dinner in their restaurant was the same. Hello, is there anyone who would like to wait on us?<\/p>\n

We finally ate and spent some time shooting the bull on the deck outside our rooms, talking about how weird this place was. Would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Johnny!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d be awakening us from our slumbers? But the night passed uneventfully, with the exception of Dennis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gold Wing falling over as its sidestand sunk deeply into the rain-saturated gravel of the parking lot.<\/p>\n

In the morning we agreed to eat breakfast up the road. Good-bye. So long. We won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be troubling you any further. Just one final chill down our spines as we left, to send us on our way.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

You can’t always go back but you can always go further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been out on the road and stayed at a really creepy place? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not talking about dumps. Heck, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stayed in plenty of those, like the place in Kemmerer, WY, where it turned out the three rooms next to ours didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have roofs. You see, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had a fire awhile back . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-touring","tag-creepy-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}