The Deleted Scenes - Hotel Mornings, Little Pleasures
The other week we were in Chapel Hill, but our hotel was on a service road off a commercial strip in Durham. Not an upgrade from the last hotel, a pleasant downtown location in the neighboring small town of Carrboro. But I find a certain appeal in these utterly generic hotels off the highway. I’m not sure exactly why. Maybe they remind me of being a kid on vacation. I sometimes prefer them to Airbnb, where you can’t forget the fact that you’re in someone else’s house... Subscribe to The Deleted Scenes to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of The Deleted Scenes to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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