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Tucson Hospitality Inn

Filed under “Photography” and “Tucson Trip 2005
by Adam at 10:36 PM on August 19, 2005

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This is where my mother and I are staying while she visits doctors in Tucson:

A view of Hotel Schmotel's front entrance, as seen from the courtyard.
The front entrance as seen from the courtyard at dusk. Click for slightly larger version.

Beats the hell out of Motel 6, that’s for sure.

Hotel Schmotel Tucson Hospitality Inn is a non-profit hospitality house especially for seriously ill people receiving treatment in Tucson and their caregivers. It’s kind of like a B&B in the way it’s set up, and only costs $35 per night. (Update: The hospitality house where we stayed has changed its name from Hotel Schmotel to Tucson Hospitality Inn as of late 2005.)

I’d hoped to take more pictures by now, but for now all I’ve got is the exterior shot above and this photo of the kitchen:  

The kitchen of Hotel Schmotel

I’m doing a pro bono redesign of the hospitality house’s web site, so I’ll be taking a lot more photos in the future. It’s a great house, and it photographs well. I’ll share the best of the shots here or on my photoblog. Meanwhile, you can read an article about the hotel and its founder / innkeeper Ann Renaud from this Wednesday’s Arizona Daily Star.

Adam is a web developer and graphic designer who lives and works in south-central Kansas. He likes to speak his mind, both here and in his business blog. He only rarely writes about himself in the third person, honest. If you’d like to work with Adam, drop him a line.

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  1. Hotel Schmotel, the Official Kitchen Shot

    This is the kitchen photo that will be used on the new web site. The one I posted earlier in my weblog left something to be desired….

    Trackback by Low Pass Filter — August 30, 2005 @ 1:23 am

  2. […] When I returned to Kansas in late September, Angela was healthier than I’d seen her in years. Over the three and a half weeks that she was on her own, however, the burden of doing all her own shopping and errands — along with searching for an apartment1, buying a car to save money over renting one2, and getting exposed to pesticide when the bushes outside the hospitality house were sprayed — had caused her to deteriorate almost to her previous level of ill health. […]

    Pingback by Back in Tucson (8 Ways to Sunday) — October 25, 2005 @ 3:13 am

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