The ones in the Montana rest stops are gloomy, dark, have only one temperature of sink-water (cold but not so cold as to be refreshing), and they may lack soap. For their part, Montana rest-stop-restroom-users would probably be better off using the restrooms in a correctional facility. Most importantly, the restrooms give users the impression that they have been incarcerated in a correctional facility. Montana rest stops can be abysmal, and potentially fatal, for a number of reasons. Thus, the following rankings, arranged from worst to best. Unfortunately, I haven’t been to every US state, so the following rankings will be by no means comprehensive (though I may update them at a later date as I traverse more states.) Nonetheless, I feel it is my duty as a road traveler to inform my comrades-in-transit of the providential possibilities and potential perils of rest stops to the best of my ability. Hence, a comprehensive ranking of rest stops by quality is required. Unfortunately, I was required to use the qualifying term can be in the previous sentence because not all rest stops are created equal. As anyone who has been on a road trip in the United States can tell you, one of the best parts of a road trip can be the momentary respite from driving that occurs when one stops at a rest stop to eat, use the bathroom, and generally rejuvenate. I have spent a non-negligible fraction of my childhood in the car on extensive road trips. For now, however, you’ll just have to be content plumbing the depths of that most austere of topics: highway rest stops. Worse yet, this blog is now proceeding to dissect highway rest stops in that most potentially sleazy of internet formats – the listicle.* As this blog’s author, however, I can assure you of two things: that a balanced intellectual diet (or, as the case may be, a balanced non-intellectual diet) does one’s mental digestive systems good, and that more weighty posts are en route. Here is a blog that has sunk, in three posts, from examining the lofty philosophical pronouncements of Nietzsche to speculating about petro-finance to dissecting the merits of highway rest stops. If you are a regular reader of this site and if you enjoy the sort of posts that generally populate it (those about technology, history, philosophy, etc.), your distress after reading the last post must have turned to outright alarm when you saw the title of this one.
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