Thank You, Schererville, Indiana

To you this may look like a pile of garbage. To me, it looks like Cabo San Lucas. When the folks at the Comfort Inn in Schererville, Indiana checked me into a hotel room with this view they helped place me on the road to Cabo.

A couple of months ago I entered American Way (American Airlines' inflight magazine) Magazine's "Sixth Annual American Way Road Warrior Search." Much to my surprise, I was selected as a finalist. One part of the contest was to "Submit up to three photos with creative captions that best depict your life as a Road Warrior." My entry kicked off with this photo and the caption "From the penthouse to the outhouse, I’ve stayed in them all. And have a photo from the window of every hotel room I’ve stayed in." That, along with some other things I submitted, got me selected as a finalist in the Road Warrior Search.

As a finalist I am being flown (along with my wife) to the Hilton Los Cabos Beach & Golf Resort along with the other finalists for a magazine photo shoot. Our mugs will appear in the January 15 edition of American Way, which I am told has a readership of three million people.

So to the Comfort Inn in Schererville I say "thanks." But you guys really ought to clean that mess up.

Starting October 15, click here to vote for Brad! -- www.AmericanWayMag.com