Sunday 14 September 2008

Road trip!

We woke up this morning in our 17th floor room to watch the morning sunlight come up over Reno. A little more beautiful than the neon lights of the casino floor :)



Today we had the longest single drive of the trip of 455 miles *phew* which meant we spent pretty much the whole day on the road. After leaving Reno we made a pitstop at Walmart and loaded up with road and drinks to keep us going on the road.



I used to think that air conditioning and cruise control were luxurys, but when driving through long desert roads they are required features! Although it was a long drive, the scenery is much more interesting than driving on motorways in England and the traffic more relaxed.



We're now booked into our room at the Shilo Inn which is huge! It's more like an apartment than a hotel room, it even has two TV sets in it :) Tomorrow we'll be taking it easier and enjoying some of the local sites around the Twin Falls area.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope you won on the slot machines. The scenery looks so very big!
Have you put on any weight with the giant portions?
Have you both had a drive on the wrong side of the road?
Enjoy xxx

Unknown said...

We thought the slot machine only cost $1, but after we'd put in the first note it didn't work! Then we worked out it needed $5 to start the gambling!

So we feed four more $1 bills into the machine, pushed the gamble button and lost - the end :)

I think we're doing ok food wise, balancing out our food intake throughout the day. Although in San Fran we did loads of walking.

Just about to go for a swim now before we have breakfast.