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Old 03-02-2021, 09:18 AM
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Booked a sleeper....was bunk beds in a tiny closet-sized area... Top bunk put face within inches of the ceiling---could feel my breath.
Breakfast was a small box of cereal with 1/2 pint of tepid milk.

Any trip north to south or south to north will include one or two nights at a real motel.

Sadly, auto-train a disappointment.
That's why I didn't get a sleeper, the seats and the big windows was great entertainment, at least I thought so. Even though I found the people on the telephones annoying, I liked being in the general population, so to speak. Not isolated. Maybe that's why you didn't like the train. Plus I was in the Army, it seemed like an adventure.

I had both the cereal and scrambled eggs for breakfast. We had our choice of a couple of items. Which is normally more than I eat for breakfast. Maybe you came late and the eggs were gone.

If I did stay in a motel, South of the Border has always been my favorite place to stay, that's what Pedro Sez!!

Sleeper bunk, you should of taken the bottom.

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In the 50's we traveled to Florida every summer until I was 9 years and then moved to Florida permanent. I remember when South of the Border was only a small motel. Now look!

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Here is South of the Border in the 50's.

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