10 ½ Hours in Ukiah
North Coast Roadtrip travelog #2
Ukiah, CA - Sat, 27 Mar 2021. 8:30am.
Just 10 ½ hours after arriving in Ukiah we are leaving. It's not that there's anything particularly wrong with the place; but this town and the Hampton Inn we've stayed at are merely a Friday Night Halfway stopover en route to adventures further north.
While even 8:30am is later than we wanted to hit the road this morning it's a slight shame we couldn't stay longer. We have a comfortable room with a balcony overlooking the pool and hot tub area. Here's a pic from last night:
We arrived too late for the pool's 9pm closing time, and this morning we're leaving too early for its 9am opening time.
In other respects we're glad to be moving on. People here are not exactly taking the Coronavirus and Covid-19 precautions seriously. Oh, they're doing some things to show you how seriously they take it. "Safety Theater", you might call it; in the same vein as Security Theater. For example, our TV remote has been sanitized and safety wrapped for our protection:
...Not that I even touched the TV remote. I haven't turned on a hotel TV except to see if I could connect my computer in the past 1000+ nights of hotel stays.
But while the TV remote is all nice and protected, how about the people? Ha ha, no. This safety theater, not safety fact.
Wearing masks indoors is state law in California, and it's company policy at this hotel. Placards are posted at the front door, at the front desk, in all the elevator lobbies, etc. Yet half the customers are walking around or sitting in common areas without masks, and the staff does nothing. Some of the staff aren't wearing masks correctly, either. We know that the virus gets passed between unmasked people near each other indoors- far, far more readily than it gets passed on the surface of devices, such as a TV remote, that two different people might touch hours apart. But yeah, it's easier to put a bag on a remote than get a bunch of knuckle-draggers to wear their damn masks.
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Ukiah, CA - Sat, 27 Mar 2021. 8:30am.
Just 10 ½ hours after arriving in Ukiah we are leaving. It's not that there's anything particularly wrong with the place; but this town and the Hampton Inn we've stayed at are merely a Friday Night Halfway stopover en route to adventures further north.
While even 8:30am is later than we wanted to hit the road this morning it's a slight shame we couldn't stay longer. We have a comfortable room with a balcony overlooking the pool and hot tub area. Here's a pic from last night:
We arrived too late for the pool's 9pm closing time, and this morning we're leaving too early for its 9am opening time.
In other respects we're glad to be moving on. People here are not exactly taking the Coronavirus and Covid-19 precautions seriously. Oh, they're doing some things to show you how seriously they take it. "Safety Theater", you might call it; in the same vein as Security Theater. For example, our TV remote has been sanitized and safety wrapped for our protection:
...Not that I even touched the TV remote. I haven't turned on a hotel TV except to see if I could connect my computer in the past 1000+ nights of hotel stays.
But while the TV remote is all nice and protected, how about the people? Ha ha, no. This safety theater, not safety fact.
Wearing masks indoors is state law in California, and it's company policy at this hotel. Placards are posted at the front door, at the front desk, in all the elevator lobbies, etc. Yet half the customers are walking around or sitting in common areas without masks, and the staff does nothing. Some of the staff aren't wearing masks correctly, either. We know that the virus gets passed between unmasked people near each other indoors- far, far more readily than it gets passed on the surface of devices, such as a TV remote, that two different people might touch hours apart. But yeah, it's easier to put a bag on a remote than get a bunch of knuckle-draggers to wear their damn masks.
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