While in Reno, we actually found time between visits with relatives to find 61 caches…..31 of those were found while we took a day trip to Virginia City. It seems like when we left AZ, we brought all the warm/hot weather with us. Every day (except yesterday and today) the temperatures were in the high 90s with lows in the 50s. We even had the ACs running all day long and then opened the windows in the evening.
Yesterday the clouds formed and the wind (45 mph gusts) came up and the temperature dropped to 83. Today, as I type this, it is only 51 and we have the heat pump running. Amazing what a day or two makes in the weather! The wind is supposed to stick around for several days, and it looks like we will be facing a lovely head wind all the way up I-80 and into Yuba City…..now that is not going to be fun.
While in Reno, we were busy! Friday, Ken cleaned on the coach, and we even got some caching done. Saturday, we had brunch with Velma & Francis (aunt & uncle) and spent the day with them. Sunday, we were at Lake Tahoe with Steve, Kristy, Gordy & Barry cruising around the lake on Steve & Kristy’s boat. Somehow, I left the camera in the Jeep, so didn’t get any good pictures of the day. Oh yeah, I did have the camera on my cell phone, but that did not take very good pictures, so I won’t post those. We cruised from a pier near Jake's at Tahoe City over to Emerald Bay where Barry served up strawberry shortcake to everyone while we enjoyed the sights on shore. Boy was that ever good!! After eating, we motored over to the north shore and oohed and aahed at all the “cabins” along the shoreline. Now those “cabins” are huge and worth millions. We even saw Sly Stallone’s "little" get-away mansion on the way back to the pier at Tahoe City. All in all, we traveled about 53 miles around that lake. While it was high 90s in Reno, the lake was a glorious 84 degrees. Yep, we all got lots of sun and had a marvelous time. On the way home, Ken & I even managed to find a couple caches (what a surprise...LOL).
As I said earlier, we took a day (Monday) and drove to Virginia City. What a neat old town! We haven't been there for years, and it felt the same...like time standing still. However, there were sooooo many tourists in the town that we didn’t spend too much time in the shops or walking along the city streets. We did get around on some of the side roads and found some caches there. Also, we spent a lot of time in the old cemetery. The dates on the headstones dated way back to the 1800s, plus there were some buriels as recent as 2003. We did take the camera this time and managed to get some nice shots from the cemetery. After Virginia City, we drove on through Carson City and back to Reno. Can you believe we actually found 31 caches on that drive? Amazingly we didn’t have a hard day at all. Ken did do a couple short climbs up a hill, but most were easily accessible and quick. We even found time to stop for an early dinner/treat at a Dairy Queen in Carson City. This is the entrance to the cemetery.
The following shots are scenes from around the cemetery. Note how the wildflowers are blooming on the hill in the one shot. The V on the hillside is for Virginia City.
There goes Ken up a hill for a cache. This is the reason his geocaching name is Mountain Goat. The second picture is of our Jeep, which is also a real travel bug....see the tag in the side window?
Now I have to say that travel bug decal in the Jeep's window is quite the conversation thing. Most people have no idea what it means, but geocachers recognize it immediately. While we were stopped to find a cache on the outskirts of Carson City a strange car stops and out jumps this young man asking if he could "discouver" our bug. That person was MarshallOD (Joe) and he is from California and we had a marvelous visit and even exchanged bug and geocaching information. He too is going to be at the event this weekend, along with 2700 other geocachers, and we hope to meet up there. What fun this silly little game has turned out to be. You meet so many nice people and get to see so many places that you would normally NEVER, ever travel to.
You would think that being in Reno, we would frequent the casinos and win/lose some money. No, the only time we went into a casino was for dinner at the Village Inn and Casino here at the Sparks Marina near where we are staying. We had a very nice dinner at the Steak House in the casino with Barry & Gordy (cousins). Tonight, we are going to dinner with Ken’s aunt and uncle at yet another casino. That is our only casino experiences!
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