Little America.
There’s a big hotel, and a really good restaurant on one side, and a huge Truck lot on the other side. The showers were all done in marble, and had tubs in them.
If you didn’t have time for the Restaurant you could get the best charbroiled hamburger from the grill in the fuel stop.
There’s 2 of them, one in Cheyenne, and the big one 60-70 miles out of Evanston.
I was running behind a guy in MT coming out of Billings eastbound, and his engine let loose.
Snowing like a dog, I saw the engine parts coming, but couldn’t swerve for danger of landing in the ditch.
Flattened 2 drive tires with chunks of engine block.
Stopped to help the guy, and his block had a hole the size of a basketball in it.
All of his tires were fine, damnit. I growled about that all the way to Fargo. Quick $600 out of the pocket. GRRR.
I had forgotten about Little America!
Real nice truck stops.
There’s also one in Flagstaff, Arizona.
They have two truck lots, nice restaurant and a food court type arrangement in the truck stop area. The food there is great.
They had a lot of Indians working there, which I found interesting.
Little America is the only group who has successfully made an appeal to vacationers and truck drivers.
They bill themselves as resorts.
There was a local stop in Alabama, on a US highway instead of the interstate.
Its a smallish stop but had good parking. The food was pretty good, but the showers were great.
Large and roomy and the shower head was in the ceiling so the water flowed straight down.
Really nice, and two towels was standard.
I stopped there several times but can’t remember the name or the nearest town.
The only time I lost a tire on the road was in Michigan.
I had picked up a bolt in one of the drives.
By the time I found it the next morning, I had worn the head off and the bolt had punctured the tire.
I forget how much it cost. But I checked my tires *closely* at every stop after that.