Lodging
This week I stayed at three hotels and one motel: the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, a Marriott (if I remember correctly) in Pasadena, the Super 8 in Inglewood (nearby LAX), and the Four Seasons in Austin. (By the way, that's three separate trips away from home, not two, with 6 flight segments and 900 miles by car!)
It was quite a study in contrasts. I'd never even been inside a Four Seasons before, and then two in one week with a Super 8 in between!
Despite this, I still haven't experienced the real extremes of paid overnight lodging in the U.S. I'm told there are several hotels in San Francisco alone that are fancier than the Four Seasons, and, at the other end (speaking of works I saw at the L.A. book fair), "there's plenty of room at the bottom".
One unusual feature of both Four Seasons hotels was that BayTSP's CEO Mark Ishikawa was present at both of them.
