Most remote place you've ever stayed

[micropolitan guy]

Many of us have been to Starkvegas, Stillwater, Pullman and other remote places as part of our jobs. But where's the most BFE place you've ever stayed in a hotel/motel room? (Not camping, etc.)

For me, a choice between Carrington, N.D., and John Day, Ore. Both in the middle of nowhere. But both were surprisingly nice little motels, for about $25 each night.

 

[Idaho]

Cokeville, Wyoming.

 

[Chef]

Salt Lake City

[duckingchairsfromModaho]

 

[spup1122]

We used to drive to Phoenix from Missouri and stay in Tucumcari, NM after the first day of driving. I don't remember much being around it, but I remember my dad telling us some cheesy story about how the city was named.

 

[Idaho]

Salt Lake City

[duckingchairsfromModaho]

You don't get out much if a city of 1-mill plus is remote

/i know you were making a joke

 

[Chi City 81]

Butte, Mont.

 

[buckweaver]

I've stayed in Vienna, Rome and Athens.

But they were all in Georgia.

 

[Chef]

Got stranded 14 miles east of Las Vegas................New Mexico

 

[Songbird]

So many places to list, here are a few:

• Ottawa, Illinois, at a ****-ass motel with pubic hairs on the sheets; a buddy and I followed the Dead for a few months in '93 and '94, and were blessed to be at the last show ever at Soldier Field

• Anderson, Indiana, at a Motel 6, during a different Dead tour.

• Dodge City, Kansas, for 5 days when my car broke down; Fort Scott, Kansas, when my car broke down 300 miles later; ain't nuttin' like the Bourbon County Fair, I tell'z ya.

• Independence, Missouri, in a crack-***** motel, one night after watching a Royals baseball game, during a cross-country trip.

• Some town in Texas I can't even remember, but I do remember it was a dry county.

• Morrisville, Vermont, at a seedy motel, after a day-long drive.

• Green River, Utah, after a day of driving from Vegas.

• North Lima, Ohio, at the Scottish Inn, and after I went swimming in the pool I was sick for 5 days; never, ever go swimming in a Scottish Inn swimming pool.

• Santa Rosa, New Mexico, at a different Scottish Inn, only cleaner, and there was a cute Indian girl who worked the front desk.

• Blythe, California, after a day of driving. The waitress at Denny's looked exactly like a girl I dated in Vermont.

 

[Cadet]

I love how New Mexico already has entries in almost every post...

Mine: El Rito, New Mexico.

 

[WSKY]

for work, it has to be Laramie, Wyo.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Bad Axe, Michigan.

 

[buckweaver]

Adel, Ga. is my real answer.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Cokeville, Wyoming.

Oy. Been there. What were you doing, shacking up after prom or something?

 

[FileNotFound]

Marceline, Mo., or Las Animas, Colo.

 

[Songbird]

for work, it has to be Laramie, Wyo.

Interesting experience in Laramie one day ...

Took Greyhound cross-country. After an excruciatingly long south-to-north Utah jaunt, we cut into Wyoming and trekked to Laramie. Got off at the bus station and it was 75-80 degrees. Went to the bathroom for a long constitutional and came out 5 minutes later to blizzard-like conditions. Was really neat, or strange.

 

[More hideous than Ben Seaver]

Cokeville, Wyoming.

Oy. Been there. What were you doing, shacking up after prom or something?

I once worked with a guy who was originally from Hanna, Wyoming, and he hated Cokeville more than anything in the world. Apparently Cokeville tended to win the state title in virtually every sport, usually destroying tiny towns like Hanna along the way.

For me, the most remote place I've ever stayed at was North Platte, Nebraska. It was about as much fun as getting genital herpes, then going for a bike ride on a scenic road.

 

[Bump_Wills]

Nome, Alaska. You can only fly or dog-sled in, ferchrissakes.

 

[Bump_Wills]

Also spent entire summers in Baggs, Wyo.; Sidney, Mont.; Milford, Utah; Cuba, N.M.; and Montpelier, Idaho.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Montpelier, Idaho.

Man, what a dump! ;D