More Reno Street Vibrations

So, we wound up at the Reno Street Vibrations gig on Friday around 2:00 and checked into the hotel. The Grand Sierra Casino was once a Hilton I believe and had been sold and refurbished. If you want to spend the bucks, this place is pretty nice. Our room was fantastic, all marble, plasma tv's in the room and the bathroom (??) and that bathroom....damn! NICE! I've stayed at some amazing hotels in my day but this was one of the best if not the best.

Since she was sort of beat up from the ride, Laurie took a nap while I cruised around Reno and got our event passes. Turns out the hotel you had to pick it up from was a few miles out of the downtown area. Seeing that it was a great day for a ride, I took my time getting out there and cruised around a little. Okay, I got lost. But it was still fun cruising Reno where I hadn't been in over 30 years.

We had some dinner and walked around the vendor area later that night. I was surprised at how uncrowded it was. I'd heard that Reno was one of the bigger rallies of the year and getting bigger. Turns out that since the west coast had such a shitty weather pattern for the days preceding the rally, the turnout was less than expected.

Laurie isn't a big partier and neither of us are big into browsing vendor booths for extended periods (how many t shirts can you look at??) so we rode back to the hotel around 9:00 or so and proceeded to get hammered and gambled most of the night away. Our plan for Saturday was to do a poker run that had sign ups from 8:00 - 11:00.