Question 14: Where is the single worst place in the United States?

Countless places in the running for this one, ranging from this place, to this place, to this place, all of which suck.

Additional options include:

• The drunk tank at Oakland Stadium, although that's generally based on hearsay.
• Certain exercise bicycle seats.
• In a Reliant K car on the NY Thruway immediately following a PEW dispersal.

Answer: Despite all the viable contenders, I didn't have an instant of doubt - the unquestionable single worst place in the United States is the El Camino Real Motel in Palo Alto, California. Unfortunately there are no available photos, or even a weblink to this cursed place - no doubt because no marketing is actually better marketing for this place. The bleakest of the bleak, the ultimate morale killer, the festivity terminator, the ECRM is bad news. Having spent a night there myself, ready to do some drinking and have some fun, our decidedly vile hotel room managed to drain the life out of us. Ultimately it proved more enjoyable to simply go to sleep early, in an effort to correspondingly wake up early and check out ASAP.

Note: We were forced to stay at the ECRM on the dreaded night in question because everything was booked from San Francisco all the way south to Palo Alto. This ill-fated motel quest was similar to a journey I'd do four summers later, when Kavet and I failed to find a hotel room anywhere in Virginia. Ultimately we found a room, at a hotel far superior to the ECRM, albeit grossly out of the way.

Enjoy.................G