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10. Some little dump in VA Beach, about 30 years ago.

Tue May 14, 2013, 08:37 PM

May 2013

This was pre-internet and I wrote to the VA Chamber of Commerce for a packet of motel brochures. This place had nice looking brochure and the prices were reasonable. There was no way of knowing what it was really like.

When we pulled in, there were people walking through the parking lot and they said to us, "Don't stay here!" We should have listened to them. It was a run-down, old-fashioned dump. Plus it had to be near an Air Force base .... there were jets flying right over us all night long. My kids still tease me about picking that place.

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