Get a Room at the Rodeway East in Tucumcari, New Mexico. You can live like a low-life. We took a trip across the US last week. 14 states in 10 days. It was a great trip. The places we stayed in were clean and reasonable. Everyone was great. . . until we arrived in New Mexico. And that's not completely fair to say. Everyone we met in New Mexico was nice except for the owners of the Rodeway East in Tucumcari, NM. I've done a lot of traveling and rented rooms in questionable motels, but this time we were traveling with two little kids and my mom who is just clear of lung cancer and has had asthma for years. It was our fault we didnt check the room when we checked in. But since every place we had rented up to New Mexico had been great, AAA approved, clean, etc., we were lulled into a false sense of security. After all it was the most expensive of all the motels we had rented on the trip. We rented the room, paid with a Traveler's Check and then went to the room. It was a dump. The shower... more