The Motel 6 has granite?

Since when does a Motel 6 have a granite window sill? This blows my mind. Cheap sheets, small tv, even smaller swimming pool, and, yep, we've got a granite window sill.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm laying in a bed at, you guessed it, a Motel 6! Leaving Clarksville, TN around 7:30 this morning, we arrived at a desperate little town called Fulton, nestled between the metropolises that are St. Louis and Columbia, MO. The day started out with a slight shiver and a chance of showers. By 11:30 Dad flagged me over to put on rain gear, and we froze our way through lunch. By 2:00 we were having the oil changed on the 1200 at Gateway BMW in St. Louis, and by 3:30 we were at the BMW MOA headquarters outside St. Louis picking up some stickers and catching up with Mandy Langston, a friend from the national BMW rallye last year. As it happens, we were helped at the BMW dealership by a really nice guy named Ryan, (sp?), who we found out, when we were complimenting his service to Mandy, that he was actually her fiance. What do you know? Tomorrow I finally get to pick up some filters for my new lens (Nikkor 14mm f2.8) seeing as the only places I can find filters to fit this ultra-wide are New York and Kansas City, (which finding them in Kansas was about as startling as seeing a granite window sill in a Motel 6)! We may also look into getting some bike-to-bike communication other than frantic hand signals and flashing head lights. We'll see how cheap we can get a set-up for. For now, I will settle to replying to some very outdated e-mails, reading about landscape photography, and sleeping!

Thus ends day 2.

Zack