Vladv1
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Ian Jeffery: ‘We’d be trying to pick up $150; driving along with a Holiday Inn road book in the front of the car for directions. No travel agent. And Doug would tell us to go back to where we’d just come from cos they wanted another night from us.’ They would pool their ‘shitters’ – small bills and loose change – ‘to see if we had enough cash to scrape together a Dairy Queen’: a meal at the cheap-and-cheerful fast-food chain then dotted all across America’s freeways.
Mick Wall, "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be".
What does "to pick up $150" mean in other words? Does a "Holiday Inn road book" mean that the hotel produced its own maps? What does "all across" mean in other words?
Mick Wall, "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be".
What does "to pick up $150" mean in other words? Does a "Holiday Inn road book" mean that the hotel produced its own maps? What does "all across" mean in other words?