Just one more funny thing from the trip

Better high than low l think

I slept in one hung from a rope, but as a kid I thought it was cool. As an adult, I think it would make me terribly dizzy. I kind of want to try the platform one!

That sounds about right to me. Between our bed frame and our box spring, and then the pillow top mattress, it is a hop to get into our bed here at home. The girls cannot get up on it alone. They wanted up on it not too long ago and I let each of them up there, and they promptly each laid on their back on the big pillows that we have with their hands tucked behind their heads and smiles on their faces. I guess our bed is huge compared to their little ones, and even taller than our son's bed as they do not use a bed frame.

My grandparents had those beds, I remember I used a stool to get on the bed when I was a kid. In the past, beds were often elevated higher off the floor to stay warmer by avoiding cold drafts near the ground. In some places it was also to avoid insects and rodents, that was not the case in my grandparents house.

That does sound strange for a motel

Well, mine is made of mud and it is around 3ft high. Made it that way because I had modified my entrance iand realized too late that a bed couldn't fit / enter

My beds are high like that. You are right, a short person would need a step stool.

Yes, they had those high beds in the condos we were staying at several years ago. They were annoying to me! I'm a shortie at 5'4".

Vince's 'hospital bed' which we bought when he had his heart operation could be cranked up quite high but it made it very easy to make.

When we used to travel we brought a stool for me so that I could get up on the beds.

That’s funny.. I can just picture you having to hop up onto it.

Oh you don’t know the half of the strange beds I’ve slept in