Deep South Tour - Fall 2011 - Day 15

We had considerable debate about Montgomery v Birmingham in Alabama; it was mainly wasted energy because we had little time available for either, we opted for Montgomery as Birmingham added time onto both the day before and after. There is quite a lot to see in both mainly concerning Civil Rights but we had our longest day’s journey ahead of us, 340 miles in, multimap suggested, 5 hours and 20 minutes.
We set off by about 11.00am and we travelled pretty well and reached our Savannah La Quinta by about 5.30pm. I have hardly mentioned check in at any hotel up to now because they had all been smoothly accomplished. We were very practiced by now and had our passports available, our credit card poised and our voucher proffered. The receptionist was charming but, from early on, things did not appear to be normal, she battled with the computer, looked puzzled, looked at us confidently waiting for her to sort it out and returned to assaulting the computer. Then she started to ask us questions that we had not been asked previously, like what beds do you want? I realised something was wrong so I asked if we had a booking on her system, when she admitted that we had not I started checking my file; we were at the wrong Savannah La Quinta! It had the same road address but a different number. Once explained we reset the SatNav and set off again, we were frustrated by the delay after a long drive, and puzzled by the route on the screen, turning us off and sending us in a loop, compared to the receptionist telling us we needed to stay on the same road. We stuck with SatNav, we had known her longer than the receptionist, but they were both right, we rejoined the same road much further on and this time the Savannah La Quinta, knew we were coming and had all ready for us.
We were going to be here for two days and the hotel was further out of town than we would have wished but that discovery was for tomorrow. We asked for the nearest places to eat and when we were told that there was a Chilis only five blocks up the highway we were decided. After a quick change we there eating for $20 but I forgot the two for one beer offer and drank a bottled Corona.
We hit our beds that night well contented.