Up at 4am and on the road by 6am, light snow fall, sun comes out with clouds with snow at very low elevations.
10:15 boomer hill rest stop
50 wild turkeys along i5
grants pass 1130
gas was 339 a gal, talked to woofer at shucks store
1pm medford oregon
hit up arbys for lunch, sunny out, low snow in hills
5pm susanville ca.
gas 359 a gal
630 pm reno nv.
gas 335 a gal - stayed at the gate keeper motel, $60, dump hole, noise
3/30/08
1030 am heading south to Carson city nv. joan hit 500 bucks inside the silver legacy first machine..... ate lunch at the golden nugget -carson- head for virginia city - live music in most all saloons, comstock boys play the bucket of blood saloon and joan hits for 150 bucks i hit for 50.
3/31/08
walked Reno today - joan hits $1000 at fitzgeralds casino playing the wheel of fortune
4/1/08
did the free spin stuff at the pepermill casino joan got 5 bucks in free play while i got 5 bucks in kid video game tokens - i was pissed and told them so -- i wasnt a kid and aint comin back....
headed for lk tahoe gas in Galena nv 355 a gal.
snowing at 8000 ft at mt rose ski area, arrive at crystal bay N lk tahoe with lite snow.
S lk tahoe 5pm. - look for food --------Harveys, Harrahs and the Horizon to spendy for what i wanted to eat and Bills became totally non smoking, passed on their advertisments
ate at Lakeside inn and casino, had prime rib baked potatoe vegis salad and bread for 1095
4/2/08
played texas holdem from 11 am til dinner time at CalNeva Reno, bought in for 50 and cashed out for 189 - headed for the Atlantis casino pic below - ate dinner at the seafood buffet here and it rocked at 20 bucks per person
4/3/08
Nugget in Sparks nv 10am breakfast, won 25 and paid for breakfast, accross the street at the Silver Club i hit 30 more bucks, then headed for the Atlantis casino again to find my lost reading glasses.... never found them.......
Now in lake tahoe - sunny out feels like 80, no wind and in a T shirt - found cave rock with alter and bench seating with firepit...... hmmm, pic above.
715pm done with tahoe sunset and now back to Reno will be back in the morning
carson city dollar tree store had 5 one dollar slot machines inside to play - so so funny
4/4/08 friday
rm 275 jacuzzi rm lakeside inn an casino
left Reno early went to grand seirra casino for food but it sucked so bad we left and hunted for better eats --- headed for our room at lake tahoe
room equipt with 2 flat screen tvs a thrown phone for the toilet, a shower at each end of the jacuzzi tub, full kitchen and deck, was delux accomadations for me
4/5/08
last night sucked
complained to the prez of the casino about some issues first thing in the morning.
1 - waiter kept taking my uneatten food - no no no
2 - safety issues in the jacuzzi tub - towel/hand bars broken
3 - poker tournament -- 10 hr drive to play for a pizza, not........ poker manager added more players after i canned 2 - 30 min into the game ---- no no no, not my rules I play by , bought in for $40 and could have won $500 but due to the funky rules the poker manager made up as we went along i finally just said F it and gave all my chips away, wasnt about money was about changing the rules that were posted on paper i was playing for.
had long chat with prez of casino -said he would comp us on our next visit -- ok ....
left lk tahoe headed for carson city for gas
behind the AMPM is the Casino Fandango, nice new casino, but - has funky bathrooms for ladies gent and DUKES, special bathrooms for HeShe's, my bathroom had 5 types of soaps and hand lotions in it...was weird.. 2 miles south of the Carson Nugget
115 pm Reno
headed home sorta
see 9 antalope along hwy 395 south of susanville
took 2 hr nap at Honey lake rest area near susanville......gas was 365 a gal here
hog flat resivor was froze over commin in but on way out it was thawed out, but mc coy flats res was still frozen.
4000 ft shasta trinity nf still with 2/4 snow drifts - hat creek no snow - over 1 ft of snow has melted while on this trip along the hiway. mc cloud area to susanville area.
620 pm left the mt shasta vista - 15 min to i5 from here and says 364 miles to portland oregon
grants pass for gas 337 a gal
830 pm 7 feathers casino along i5 - witnessed a $10,000 winner here, left at 1130 pm hit stump town at 230 am and made home at 315 am......
was a nice trip with lots to see and do....
scott
No comments:
Post a Comment