Goodness, I do like Reno. Good climate, good friends, good food.
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at MIT, and fiction editor at Boston Review.
Goodness, I do like Reno. Good climate, good friends, good food.
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at MIT, and fiction editor at Boston Review.
Another refreshing bit of travel adventure to soak up. Thanx!
Reno has an arboretum? Good food?? Pleasant to be in? I have also found it to be an overwhelming suck hole of despair. But that was the time I was forced to go to Circus Circus. And you are not in a local hotel, all of which have twisted floor plans forcing you through a casino floor/ smoked filled sports book.
Trust me, as long as you avoid the casino didtopian downtown, it’s a nice town. 🙂
Palm trees to deep snow to desert. I think that was New England weather during that time.
That drive on US 395 is beautiful. The contrasts are amazing. I’ve driven it from Pendleton, Oregon down to Reno. Then had to turn around three days later and drive the reverse course back to Pendleton. I had a 1977 Subaru Leone wagon with dual-range, manual 4WD, It was the first Subaru with a/c and I needed it in places. The ride height was also adjustable. It had a 4 speed manual transmission and a pretty decent little AM/FM radio with pretty amazing range. It had the 1.6L boxer engine option and I put over 300,000 miles on it before I sold it. I probably got 35 MPG in that thing. It was lemon yellow with an imitation woody kit on the sides.
Counting rest breaks and all, it was about a 12-14 hour drive. I was much younger, naturally, and could drive it all at once back then. On the way back I had time so I took four days. There are a lot of things to see on 395.