Finding a hotel in Endicott and Vestal, New York
We were riding south through the Adirondack Mountains and decided that we’d need to take an interstate westward in order to get back to Illinois. I had to get back home in time to take the kids to our town’s annual festival. There were only a few highways to choose from to go west. We were already south of I-90 so we considered making our way over to I-86 or I-80. We were on the eastern side of New York near I-81 and there were no highway that headed west. We kept going south with the idea that we’d turn right (west) on a decent road and find our way like we usually do. Late that afternoon we didn’t make much progress west and found ourselves in a small town looking for a diner and hotel. We found a diner and had a small meal. We were off the highway and between small towns. Inside the diner we ate and asked the waitress about the local area and hotels. A couple sitting at a table across the aisle heard us and join in conversation about riding motorcycles. Turns out this woman just