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Most recently, Maupin was stuck at the Mandarin Oriental Miami while awaiting a Fed-Ex of his left-behind passport. He writes:

Spent last four days in steamy Miami, since I neglected to pack my passport at the start of the American tour. Fed-ex two days late in getting it to me. Mandarin Oriental not a bad place to be stranded, but I have to hit the ground running in London.

Before that, he hit up the Hotel Monaco in Denver, where he was a little spooked out by Kimpton's Goldfish amenity:

In Denver at the Monaco, a hotel that gives you goldfish for your room.  Always a little creeped out by that, however humanely they treat them. What those fish must see.Too bad they can't write memoirs.

Maupin also hit up the Standard when he was in LA and offered this eloquent thought on killing time in the hotel room.

Don't know about this blogging business -- especially on the road. Book tours have a crushing sameness to them. All I want to do after a signing/reading is flop in my room with midnight room service and hotel porn. (Mercifully they have gay porn now. In the old days you had to make do with dickless straight porn.)

We love it! Although Maupin hasn't blogged for a few weeks now, we'll be checking back in to see where else the road warrior author has stayed and what he thinks.

Related Stories:
· Armistead Maupin blog [Official Site]