Be Careful What You Wish For Dept.

On a recent trip to New Mexico during a snowstorm, we stopped in Deming to get gas, and admired the Western Motel across the street.

A classic -- non-chain, just off the Interstate, "COLOR TV" sign, and bedecked in Christmas lights to boot. Just what I like to see in roadside lodgings. "We should go check it out," I said, but we really had to be going, so we snapped a pic and split.

Two hours later, I-10 between Deming and Las Cruces -- the very road we traveled immediately after admiring the Western Motel -- was closed when two semi trucks flipped in the snow. There are no other roads between Deming and Las Cruces.

So if we had stayed to admire the Western, we might have wound up staying the night at the Western.