Well, let me tell ya…
I’ve been trying to get to Chicago for two days now, and the weather is just not cooperating in the slightest. Since yesterday I’ve been following a system with lightning, hail, extreme high winds and torrential rain with the possibility of tornadoes.
Last night I pulled over at a place called Steele, ND and checked out a room at the Lone Steer Motel. Yes, that’s right. The Lone Steer Motel Casino Restaurant Lounge Campground.
The indomitable Lone Steer, home to the brave
I have some advice for you, people. Before you pony up the cash for a room at this place, get your key and check out the room first at the Lone Steer Motel in Steele, ND off of I94. When I stayed there, it was filthy. The room was filthy. The carpet on the floor was filthy. The walls were filthy. The ceiling was filthy.
It was dark and dingy.
Would you like to know why the lights in the room were underpowered? They were underpowered to disguise the fact that the sheets on the bed were hiding pubic hair. Fresh pubic hair, as far as I could tell. I wasn’t going to get too close.
I don't think "MOM" would be too proud of the cook I suffered through at this place
The restaurant chef – such as he was – cooked me an egg over and served it with toast that wasn’t warm and wasn’t toasted either. The toast was dried bread that had obviously been left out on the counter to get hard and/or stale, and thus was served as toast. It was as white and as cold-as-the-driven-snow cold, but let me tell you, it had a crust.
At 0130 hours I loaded up and headed east on the 94 one more time.
I got as far as Jamestown before yet again catching up to the storm system.
I should have followed my temptation to ride south on the 15.
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I must agree with this post. I booked a room for 3 nights here and the room was the worst I ever stayed in. The floors were dirty, outlets were missing covers, and yes there were even cockroaches. Definitely will never even come close to this place again.
Thanks for the update, Jeremy. That place is in the middle of nowhere in an area where the oil patch is blooming. I suspect that since they’re the only game in town there’s not much reason to improve the place.
But they aren’t the only motel in town.
No, they aren’t the only game in town. Fortunately.
Oh, yes.. This sounds familiar..oh too familiar.. It was, in it’s heyday under different management a place I used to stay at on summer trips to ND to see family. Unfortunately I’ve had the same experience as the writer the last time I stayed there yrs ago and stay elsewhere now. I’d love to hear where others stay..