Reby's Weight Loss and Breast Cancer Journey: Elko

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Elko

We left Reno around 10:30 a.m., stopped at Winnemucca for lunch at Subway, and arrived in Elko, NV around 3:30. We checked in to the Rodeway Inn, and I was immediately unhappy.

The website said there were laundry facilities and breakfast. Breakfast is just cold or hot cereal and some fruit you can pick up in the tiny lobby and take to your room. Laundry facilities meant there's a laundromat two blocks away. That wasn't so bad, but we had to take a second floor room. Except for the log cabin in Lake Tahoe, we have not had to carry our stuff up to a second story on this entire trip. Eric did it for us at the log cabin. LOL! Thanks, Eric.

Anyway, we dragged all our stuff upstairs. The room is okay, although the old bathroom has a pedestal sink with no shelf space and no electric plug for Mark's toothbrush. The shower was nice, though. The old tub had obviously been ripped out and replaced with a huge modern shower.

We took our laundry to the laundromat. That wasn't bad, really, because the machines were fast, big, and cheap. We got all of our laundry done in two loads running at the same time. I used the time to read my Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe book. After it was done, we walked across the street to the little grocery store. We have a great fridge and microwave in the room, so we got yogurts so we could just eat regular breakfasts in the room like we had been doing in Reno.

Saturday we walked to a nearby little park ironically called Green Belt Park. We sat on a bench and listened to an hour of the Michener book. We only have two hours left now! Then we walked around a few more blocks looking at the town and enjoying the weather, but mostly we were killing more time hoping the maid had done the room. No, not done. So we drove to Subway and got our salads on the gift card for lunch and took subs out for dinner in the room later.

We went to the Visitor's Center, but it's closed on weekends. We took some pictures of it from the outside and then went to the Commercial Casino, which used to be the oldest hotel in Elko. It has a huge polar bear stuffed and in a glass case inside, so we checked that out before going back to the Rodeway Inn to read, nap, and write a blog. Tonight we are going to watch a double feature on the TV: Fast and Furious 7, and Pan.

There's a wonderful museum in Elko, but we went to it in August of 2012 when we doing our Nevada tour. I took a ton of pictures inside that museum back then, but it doesn't appear I put any on the blog. Oh, well.

Tomorrow we are heading to Salt Lake City, Utah with a side trip to Promontory Summit and the Golden Spike National Site. I expect to get another passport stamp!

My red car in the parking lot. Our room is above the white car, the door is closed, next to an open door. At least it was right at the top of the stairs.

Good laundromat

Little grocery store across the street from the laundromat.

Listening to the book.

Ruby Mountains, originally miners thought the red sparking rocks were rubies, hence the name. They were actually garnets, and garnets are still mined there.

Really nice rocking chair on the back porch of the Visitor's Center.

Front of the Visitor's Center. This house and the out buildings were all original buildings of the Walther family, originally located about 65 miles from here on Sherman Creek, and moved to this spot in Elko to serve as the Visitor Center.