Sleeping Around

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 Israeli Hotel that was named for being right on the sea, but you couldn’t even see the Mediterranean.

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.

A Cypriot Hotel that strictly divided between the different classes of guests.

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.

A French hotel known for being the local Nazi hangout during World War 2 next to Euro Disney.

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 Canadian hotel loved by the Queen of Canada (Elizabeth II.)

A friend’s couch.

My own bed.