Day 4--Indiana

So after a while of looking up places to stay, we ventured into Indiana. . .

and found a Motel 6 that had decent reviews. It was about midnight when we got there and we were exhausted from driving all day. Before we went to our room, I begged my mom to take me to get food because we didn't eat dinner and I was starving. Since it was so late at night, all that was open was fast food, and I saw a Taco Bell on the way to our motel. I directed my mom back towards that Taco Bell, sure that I knew the way. As we drove, looking for Taco Bell, my mom kept saying she was sure we must have passed it because it wasn't this far away. I assured her that I absolutely knew where I was going. It turned out that there indeed was a Taco Bell this way, but it was NOT the one we had passed. I had actually taken her the opposite way that we had come in and we crossed all the way back into Illinois to find this other Taco Bell. After I dragged my mom all the way to another state for stupid Taco Bell, I ordered the wrong thing and only ate a couple bites of the nasty tacos anyway.

One of the reasons, besides just that they were disgusting, that I didn't eat the tacos was because by the time we got them back to the motel room, I lost my appetite. Our room was, to say the least, not the best. The worst part was the beds. The mattresses were basically box springs. I refused to sleep on box springs, so I complained to the front desk lady, who was super slow at everything she did. She offered my another room. I looked at about 3 other rooms, in which each room had a box spring as a mattress on one bed, and a real mattress on the other. Finally, I gave up, but the super slow lady at the front desk was at least also super nice, and she gave us the room for free!

By the time we went to bed, we had driven for about 15 hours and it was 1:30 in the morning, so were actually tired enough to sleep, even if it was on springs.