{"id":72,"date":"2016-11-30T23:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T23:45:56","slug":"on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"On the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I find I have booked a hotel on Route 66 in Flagstaff. Totally unintentional, but now that I\u2019m here I decide to venture out on my bike and like a \u201cDharma Bum\u201d, I\u2019m on the road!
\nMy hotel is one of three in a row all of similar design and price. Mine has been remodeled several times but that still can\u2019t cover up the 1960\u2019s design elements of the place – kinda of space-age plastic feel with aero dynamic lines flowing everywhere. I suppose they were pretty excited about landing on the moon back then and rightfully so- it maybe the most significant human achievement of all time.
\nI wander down the road and pass by a car dealership. A car with its hood open like an alligator is parked facing the road. In the \u201cjaws\u201d there is a sign that claims they are looking to sell cars to \u201cgood people with bad credit\u201d. Like a baby deer walking by an alligator pond, a poorly dressed frazzled looking lady is looking at the sign. \u2028The Alligator will sleep well tonight I think to myself.
\nNext I see a store selling billiards and saunas. That\u2019s different. Maybe they have done extensive marketing research and discovered a correlation that no one else has yet. I move past Andy\u2019s auto repair, an appliance repair shop, then a mortuary. Next to the Mortuary is a pawn shop. Now there is a correlation that makes sense to me. \u201cYou can\u2019t take it with you\u201d, they say!
\nI pass by a shop selling southwest antiques. There are old west icons for sale including wagon wheels and wooden furniture. Attracted by the items out front designed to draw me in, I do just that. Upon entering I ascertain that I am the only one in the store except for a lady engaging the lady at the register who appears to be the owner.
\n\u201cLook at the detail in these designs,\u201d she says.
\n\u201cI know what my customers want and that doesn\u2019t matter to them,\u201d says the lady at the counter.
\nI walk around the store. Filled with furniture, art work, clothes, memorabilia, it oozes personality. If only they could speak.
\n\u201cHow about this! How about I give it all to you for three hundred! You would really be helping me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

I loose track of the conversation but it appears the deal went down. The lady with the detailed items is smiling. Another customer walks in. I move towards the front as the smiling lady walks out. The store owner perceptively makes an evaluation and decision. She turns to the lady who just entered and says \u201cMay I help you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Experience has taught her that someone pulling up to the store on a bicycle is likely not a big spender.\u00a0She\u2019s dead on with that evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I find I have booked a hotel on Route 66 in Flagstaff. Totally unintentional, but now that I\u2019m here I decide to venture out on my bike and like a \u201cDharma Bum\u201d, I\u2019m on the road! My hotel is one of three in a row all of similar design and price. Mine has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rowdydogimages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}