The Joys of Travel

Typically, the travel in this league is not that bad because the hotels are used to the team arriving at odd hours.  Unfortunately, this trip has not been one of those easy trips.

Let me start by saying that it really hasn't been that bad, but I'm just trying to give you insight into the life of a Minor Leaguer. 

First of all, I noted that the Rodeway Inn in Beloit was fairly miserable.  Don't believe, check out the picture below and draw your own conclusions (not shown is the rest of the store front that the hotel is attached to with the big PUB letters shining brightly).

Earlier this week, our trainer called the hotel in Appleton to confirm our reservations for Friday - Sunday night.  As it turns out, the hotel messed up our reservation and gave away our rooms for Friday (this is more common than you think, since we were technically arriving at 2 AM on Saturday morning, but we actually needed the rooms for "Friday night"). 

The good news is that we found this out a few days in advance, and were able to set up reservations at another hotel in Appleton.  So we arrived at the Best Western at about 2 AM Saturday morning, stayed there 12 noon, and then we got on the bus and drove a mile down the road to the Microtel Inn and Suites (and the term suite is used loosely).  Unfortunately, despite the fact that they knew we were coming at noon, all the rooms weren't ready yet.  Thankfully, we only had to hang out in the lobby for 10 minutes or so before they let us all go to our rooms -- despite the fact that some of them were missing sheets, etc.

Fun times on the road, huh?