© Armando Bellmas

I love to travel (especially when it’s photography/work related). I love the different places, the roads I take there and back, picking a joint to grab a drink or three and some grub, meeting the locals, and the varying types of hotels where I can lay my head down for the night.

I was just in Atlanta again recently for the night after an assignment and I stayed, yet again, at the quirky yet perfectly located and priced Highland Inn. Having never stayed there in the deep winter, I found out that this historic hotel runs on radiated heat. If you don’t know much about radiated heat (and I didn’t until this trip), it’s prone to clanging as it warms up.

Who needs a wake-up call when the radiator can do the trick historically at 7 am (and midnight and 3 am)? Ah, the charms of being on the road.