This sounds like a plot to the latest Tuna, Texas play, but as Dave Barry says, you can't make up stuff like this.
Bryon and Barfbara Woods won the $49 M Texas lottery in July, 2003. And so they drove by the run down Tee Pee Motel in Wharton, TX, Barbara exclaimed, "I always wanted to stay there!" bypassing Diamond Head, Paris, France, and Alaska in one breath, and as they say, the rest is history.
The website provides more details. I thought it would be interesting to use this as an example of Break Even Target Profit in Chapter 6 this summer in cost accounting. I mean, you only get so many chance to camp out at the Tee Pee.
Surprise, it has proven to be a hit with all sort of groups celebrating nostalgia!
I want to spend a weekend @ the Tee Pee motel!! Awesome article on the link, sounds fun
Posted by: Jamie | May 28, 2009 at 08:18 PM
We stayed in a tee pee motel near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky a few years back. It was a neat family adventure and from talking to the owner, they stayed booked year round.
Wonder what the tax write-off would be on this investment...
Posted by: Tina C | June 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Apparently that has been the experience in Wharton
Posted by: Dennis Elam | June 11, 2009 at 06:36 AM