For someone who spends a lot of time in non-snowy areas, the sight of snow-topped mountains and coniferous trees is very exciting .. and excited we were! Unfortunately, if you do live in non-snowy areas, you don't realize the challenges in driving on icy roads and in low temperature conditions. Once we drove above the 6500 feet elevation, the temperature dropped to 15F. At one point, a large truck drove past us throwing a lot of dirt on to our windshield .. and so I used the water spray to clean it. Only a little spurt of water came out of the water-spray and before it hit the windshield, it had already frozen into ice crystals in mid-air. and then I believe all the water inside the spray had frozen. It was absolutely scary to drive a distance while looking ahead only through the few clear streaks on the windshield. We stopped at a gas station at a city called Truckee and bought some freeze-resistant windshield liquid to avoid driving part-blind. We intended on doing a snowmobile tour in Truckee, but all the spots on the two tours they had that day were taken.
So we just headed to Reno. Reno to me looked like a poor man's Vegas. The main strip area was very short, although some of the casinos such as Circus Circus had free trapeze shows. We had pizza for lunch and then walked around the other casinos. We had a room at the Sienna hotel. Positives - they give out a plate of dessert every night to each guest! Negatives - nothing to do at the casino, and their swimming pool and jacuzzi were out in the open:( (it was 20F in Reno).
The next day we drove to the northern rim of lake tahoe. Unfortunately the roads were too icy and slippery, and most of the parking lots next to the lake were also blocked with snow. So we drove to the Northstar ski resort. This ski resort is one of the best I have gone to. It is owned and developed by the ritz-carlton group and they'd built a neat village area with restaurants, heated cabannas, and drinks carts. That afternoon we had pizza again (yeah, most of the highly-reviewed restaurants in the area were pizza places .. no complaints from me;). We ate at Paluso's NY pizza .. nice thin crust!
We did the river walk along the Truckee river in Reno. There was this little ice rink there as well.
That night we hung out at the Atlantis and Peppermill casinos in Reno. We had dinner at this awesome mexican cucina called 'Miguel's'. They had good tortilla chips, very good service, awesome blended margaritas, and yummy spicy burritos and enchiladas! N isnt a fan of mexican food, but even she enjoyed the meal. We got back to MV on Sunday afternoon .. nice trip overall!
Below are pics of the complimentary dessert at the hotel, northstar resort, and the ice rink at Reno:
1 comments:
Hahha saale no matter where you go, you won't let go of your pizza and mexican food! Send the pictures.
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