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Motels

Old Route 66 – West Winds Motel – Erick, OK – Fred King

© Fred King

© Fred King

© Fred King

© Fred King

Yucca Motel – Vacancy – Garage – Vaughn, NM

© Frank H. Jump

Encino Motel Management – Encino, NM

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

All I Want – Lonely Roads & Blue Motel Rooms – Las Cruces NM & El Paso TX – Gaia Son & Joni Mitchell

© Gaia Son

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me

– All I Want, Blue (1970) Joni Mitchell

© Gaia Son

I’ve got a blue motel room
With a blue bedspread
I’ve got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me
When I call you up when I’m down….

….I’ve got road maps
From two dozen states
I’ve got coast to coast just to contemplate
Will you still love me
When I get back to town

– Blue Motel Room, Hejira (1976) Joni Mitchell

© Gaia Son

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It’s the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be

– All I Want, Blue (1970) Joni Mitchell

Hunter’s Lodge Motel – Restaurant & Bar – Delaware, NJ

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Enzo & Buddy © Frank H. Jump

Antler Motel – Jackson Hole, WY

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Arrowhead Motel – Gillette, WY

© Frank H. Jump

Stardust Motel – UFO – Smeal Bus Company – Wallace, ID

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Sleeping Beauty Motel – Daleville, NY

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Daffodil Motel – Milton, WA – Seattle-Tacoma Area

© Frank H. Jump

After taking this picture, the owner or manager – an elderly woman dressed in a Sari – started yelling at me for taking a picture of “private property.” Perhaps she was concerned I was taking pictures of license plates in the parking lot.