It wasn't filthy,
but:
- The front desk was never staffed (one key left with my name and room number on the counter)
- so we never had wifi (never saw an employee)
- breakfast area is tiny, and the juice machine and coffee maker both have "out of order" signs
- there's a coffee maker in the room but no coffee or filters
- tears in fitted sheets
- hard, uncomfortable bed
- two thin, hard pillows
- there was a plastic bag over the smoke detector
- there was bird poop all over the sidewalk outside our door
Maybe the weirdest thing at this mostly abandoned motel with only two truckstops to keep it company:
There was a creepy guy parked in the parking lot, who came over to me to ask if I had already reserved my room (which I had just used a key card to get into.) he didn't respond when I politely responded "yes, I do have a room, why do you ask?" but simply asked the question again two or three more ways. His truck moved around the parking lot several times, and was still parked there in the morning. Seemed like maybe he was hooking.
Absolutely would just keep driving in the future.
