On a summer morning in 1951, Kem Wilson, Jr. and his four siblings, two brothers and two sisters, helped pack the car after spending the night in a motor court motel somewhere between Washington, D.C. and Memphis, TN. Little did they know, but at that moment the extra $2 they each cost their father for the privilege to sleep on the floor of their family's motel room, would launch an idea in Kemmon Wilson, Sr.'s entrepreneurial head that would forever change not just the lodging across the globe, but the life's work of Kemmons Sr., his three sons and that of multiple grandchildren.