Sleeping The World Over

 I have travelled around the United States, around Canada, around Europe and around the world. I have slept in many different kinds of places over the years:

A 5 Star 17th Century Irish Castle turned into a Hotel.

A Pop-Up RV.

A Soviet-Style Ukrainian Apartment with no Internet and no running elevator.

A Driving RV.

A Kuwaiti Hotel where their selling point was the real fork, spoon and knife they gave you (and collected before you left.)

A Maltese Hotel built around Ancient Ruins.

A soft-sided tent.

Hotels directly connected to airports.

A foldout sofa bed.

A Northern Irish Hotel infamous for being bombed countless times from the 1960s-1990s.

Cheap Roadside Motels that charged by the hour.

Sleeping Pods inside airports.

A Murphy Bed in a small apartment.

Cheap Motels that charged by the month.

An isolated Scottish Bed and Breakfast.

A hard-sided tent.

A Canadian Hostel that used to be an 18th Century Prison.

Small Family-Run Hotels.

A vast Costa Rican Jungle Resort that was shut-down except for our room.

An All-Inclusive Aruban Resort.

A 1960s Volkswagen Van.

On-Board Cabins in Ferries and ships.

A Costa Rican All-Inclusive Resort where nothing was All-Inclusive and had no telephones.

A German Hotel Famous for being haunted.

A hotel on a houseboat.

Worldwide Hotel Chains.

On a flat-bed of a private plane coming back from Aruba.

The back of a pick-up truck.

Military hotels.

Hospital beds.

A Ritzy British Hotel that hid their disabled guests.

A Casino-Hotel without the beds.

A Swiss Hotel Training School where we were the guinea pigs for the students.

An All-Inclusive Bahamian Resort.

In a homeless shelter when I was a teenager (so I would see how the homeless lived.)

A Bankrupt Icelandic Hotel.

A hard chair in an ICU room.

An Alaskan Igloo- style hotel in the Summer.

Sleeping outside on a Russian park bench when it was 2 F and snowing.

An inflatable air mattress that didn't inflate.

A 4 Star Croatian Resort right on the Mediterranean.

A Russian (Soviet-Style) Sleeper Train.

A Belgian “open” hotel with no interior windows, doors or locks.

A friend’s couch.

My own bed.