Elevators wanted...

You can't bring it with you, but you do need one for an adventure such as Jam Packed! If you ever decide to tote two Segways, 7 boxes of CDs, four weeks worth of luggage, and dozens of shirts and misc. giveaways, make sure your hotel -Days Inn- has an elevator. You see, when you have to lug all of this cargo up and down stairs in the rain late at night, you want to call Days Inn corporate and ask what possessed them to build a two-story, hundred plus room hotel with only two narrow stair wells.

Oh, that's right! There is the wheel chair lift. But the sympathetic night manager, May, who has worked at the Rib Mountain Days Inn for seven years, said only the owner has the key and thus, it has never been used. Then she whispered, "The lift is tested annually when the building inspectors come a knockin'." I guess Luke and I should be happy we are not wheel chair bound.

Luke and I thought we had come to grips with this structural oversight, but less than 12 hours later, I became Segway roadkill. All I remember is being at the stop of the stairs...then 25 steps later, I landed at the bottom wedged between the wall and the Segway. Thank goodness Luke heard the ruckess from his room and ran to help me. So, umm, May, I'm here for a few more days -- Where's the key to the chair lift??? What is the owner's number?