Some travelers like to stay in five-star resorts. Others prefer some grit with their lodging – motels with fun history, quirky charm and plenty of “character”(that’s what they call those mysterious ...

Once upon a time in the 20th century, there were only a few reasons to book a motel room: to pinch pennies and move fast on a road trip, for instance, or to sleep with somebody inappropriate. Nowadays ...

The United States is arguably the spiritual home of the road trip and California's striking coast offers motorists some of ...

Listen. That’s the low hum of the highway you hear behind me, offset by the rumble of the ice machine down the breezeway. We gather today to celebrate the motel, a uniquely American creature, ...

For old-school design with a touch of Hollywood glamour, the Golden State’s nostalgic motels deliver in spades. Many of them hark back to another era, whether it’s a retro motor lodge from the 1940s ...

Listen. That's the low hum of the highway you hear behind me, offset by the rumble of the ice machine down the breezeway. We gather today to celebrate the motel, a uniquely American creature, ...

In other words, it's a wide, wide motel world out there, too broad to fit into one road trip. And so, in honor of the motel centennial, I took a road trip. Well, a few road trips. All told, I covered ...