When you see a 5 compass rating then starting planning your trip. It's a contemporary, hopefully funny re-telling of The Odyssey.Įach article about one of our trips will include a quick and easy way for readers to determine if the trip is a worthwhile venture. My first fictional work, MOVING FORWARD, GETTING NOWHERE, has recently been posted on Amazon. I've written a book about Australia's Outback, ALONE NEAR ALICE, which is available through both Amazon & Barnes & Noble. ![]() But our favorite destination is Australia. Within the next 2 years we will have visited all of the European countries. Ruth and I love to travel internationally-Japan, Canada, China, Argentina, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, etc. I've been in all 50 states more than once and more than 50 countries. My travel experiences have appeared in about twenty magazines and newspapers. My number one rule of the road is.today's disaster is tomorrow's great story. I want to tell what happened on my way to the beach, and it may not have been all that pleasant. But tell that to publishers who are into 5-star cruise and tropical beach fantasies. Just because something negative happened doesn't mean your trip was ruined. Since the beginning, I've had to avoid writing about the downside of travel in order to sell more than 100 articles. The AAA mentions The Space Age Lodge’s “hard-to-miss spaceship design outside and a unique atmosphere inside”. Now, of course, we have Travelocity, Expedia, Trivago, etc. Guertin eventually owned 13 motels and was responsible for helping to shape an association that could refer lodging businesses to each other. The Beach Motel in Long Beach California is considered the 1st Best Western property. Al died but the Space Age Lodge, which was renovated by Best Western while keeping its theme, continues to delight travelers. He designed 4 other space age destinations and created what were, in the mid 1960s, futuristic details, like specialty lamps. There was no aerospace facility in or near Gila Bend at the time, but Al Stovall, the Space Age Lodge’s creator, had an interest in The Space Race and figured that folks on their way to places that were involved in the space program might stop there. ![]() President John Kennedy had promised to put a man on the moon within a decade in 1962. That’s probably why the Space Age Lodge, which opened in 1964 or 65 depending on whom you ask, was Best Western’s 4th property. It now has 4,100 hotel and motels in over 100 countriesīest Western is headquartered in Phoenix, which is less than an hour’s drive from Gila Bend. It became international about 1975 when it put its name on properties in New Zealand and Australia. It had 699 properties and more than 135,000 rooms to stay in. Because it had the only reservation service covering the entire United States by 1962, Best Western was the largest motel chain in the industry by the next year. The Best Western chain was founded in 1946 by M. Carmen Navarrete, its Assistant Manager, told me some interesting things about it. It seemed like everyone staying there or eating in the Space Age Restaurant was taking photos or videos of it when we were there. The best attraction in Gila Bend, AZ, is a motel, the Best Western Space Age Lodge.
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