My internal conversation as I walked to the end of the motel to take this photo:

1. Look! That one door is white!
2. And looks older than the blue one.
3. And the numbers skip one.
4. Wait. Is this wing of the motel the even numbers?
5. (Looks across the parking lot to see, spots the numbers 3, 4, and 5. Looks back at these doors.)
6. Oh…they skipped 13. That’s really a thing, then, I guess
7. (Spends a longer-than-necessary amount of time wondering if the motel would be described as a 14-room place – because that’s how high the numbers went – or a 13 room place – which was factually correct but also uses “that” number.)

Yes. I am sometime so quick to figure stuff out that I even surprise myself.

Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025