> "Well, I was hoping it'd be easier to just pull into the trees and find a place to camp, but I forgot how empty Ohio is..."
> "Let's get something to eat for now."
> In a place this desolate, a motel may not be expensive? Search for an Econo Lodge nearby.
> Burger King is not a proper introduction to the splendor of the burg. Guess we're getting SBARRO?.
>"This land makes me feel sad, and I'm not sure why," says Archer.
>You pull in and make your way toward Sbarros. The service plaza is a thing of brick and glass, a round plaza with a dome in the center, with an extended curtain cut into a mathematical swoosh. It tries to blend traditional sensibilities with a kind of futurism and fails at both, ending up a bland creation by committee that exudes a kind of apologetic fakeness. You can't even hate it, it's not the building's fault that it's so sad and hokey in its attempt to look at once modern and familiar. Many sad minds went to planning this facility, and crooked contractors no doubt cut every corner possible. It will be demolished before today's kindergartners graduate, if there is any justice. More likely it will continue to be a money pit,
>As you make your way across the parking lot, you idly check your phone for places to stay. The nearest one is a mile away, in a town simply called Clyde, offering about 63 dollars for a night. There are other places, further away, offering similar fares. And a few offering twice that for heaven knows what reasons.
>The inside is like a small airport, but without any of the excitement and a lot more truckers wandering around, you find your goal easily, there's not much here.
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