Motel in Southern Idaho is a road trip song. Steeped in nostalgia, guitars twanging like diner coffee, and vocals spoken over a driving rhythm, the song reflects on small moments on the road from Southern Idaho to West Texas, to Chiapas State in Mexico. The road trippers are a couple, romantically drinking their way through life. When he gets home, the singer wonders, did he accomplish anything? Has he just been going down Main Street in the wrong direction?