It was nearing cocktail hour and we decided to find a motel in Florence, OR. Having had great success the past 2 days, we were disappointed to find prices to be double what we had been paying. Also, there seemed to be a large number of people in this small town and many motels were full. We soon learned that there was a big dune buggy competition that weekend explaining why Florence was overrun with rednecks.
In many hotels you see discarded room service trays outside the doors, but at Le Chateau, on dune buggy weekend, empty Budweiser suitcases were placed outside the doors and the "cement pond" was utilized well into the night. We overheard this statement, "I'm not a kid. I'm 20 years old! I haven't been in school for 5 years!" Well now that explains a lot.
