It may have something to do with why I have an obsession with motels. The transitory nature of our lives.

Not the Holiday Inn but those little motels on the sides of highways. The Lamplighters of anywhere USA. The Rabbit Ears Motels of all the little towns that are only on the way to the ski towns and popular places. The Rustic Resort. The Shadyside Inn.

I want to know who stays there? Where do they come from? Where are they off to? Are the owners there nights when all the rooms are empty? Do the rooms ever fillup? Do the owners sit behind the front desk day after day wishing to walk out the door, keep walking, head out to their own private rooms with starched sheets that they don't have to ever wash again?