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>> Unless you can explain what "nice" means to here
>> it might be hard to answer...
>
> Specifically, the rest stops in Ohio we stopped at when she was
> visiting were on Interstate 70 and had attractive landscaping, picnic
> areas with tables and grills, numerous vending machines, nice bathroom
> facilities, etc. By contrast, she said that she'd been to some in
> western states that looked rather spartan and rundown by comparison.
>
> Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to say that Ohio rest stops are
> anything special; I'm sure there are bad ones here too. I was simply
> curious if the ones in the east are generally better than the ones in
> the west, or if she simply had the misfortune of stopping at some bad
> ones.
>
In arizona they use a lot of composting toilets since there's
often no running water at the rest stops and of course with
the desert conditions you can hardly expect grassy picnic sites
Keith
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