Recently, an opportunity presented itself to head to Reno for a few days. It had been a while, too long, truthfully, since the last time I got to travel. Reno had never been somewhere that was particularly on my radar, but I am forever excited by the chance to see new places.
To be honest, I had a few misconceptions about Reno before visiting. The first would probably be that Reno is a mini-version of Vegas. I thought that I would walk into a gambling town that was stuck in a time warp. Depending on where you stay in Reno, that might not feel too far off, but in our relatively short time there, I learned that Reno has a lot more to offer.
City of Reno
Admittedly, we didn’t have long to see all of Reno as we were only there three days. Besides, we had plans that were taking us West, through Donner Pass and into California. The day we were set to leave, a storm came in and changed those plans just one more time. With work finished and the trip beginning, we headed back to Reno-Tahoe Airport, rented a car, and decided that the storm would lead us South, further in to Nevada.
It was just about dinner time when we got out of Reno, and so we stopped at a gas station to pick up the best junk food we could think of. With the storm gaining on us, we set out, coffee and Pringles in hand, for the foothills and arid landscape of Nevada. Our plans, his first, were to drive until we couldn’t anymore. How far we would get depended on how long we could hold the steering wheel and keep our eyes open on the empty road ahead.
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