2008

A nana, a mother and a wife - all slot machine addicts. “it’s about to hit!” #
Today we drive the grandparents to tahoe city. They wont let it go! Apparently “there is a dam there where you can feed fish.” #

Oh brother… Signed up for a timeshare presentation to get four free tahoe paddle boat tix. They are so nice here! #

Drinking beers, playing “name that tune” on my 20000 song ipod with the parents and grandparents. #
Susans “Singers and Songwriters from TimeLife” is a big hit with the parents on the ipod. #
Sunny and cool today, gonna ride the gondola up the mountain. #
Why they gamble, i play mrs pacman downstairs. I am very close [...]

A 7am VERY fast but refreshing jump in lake tahoe to start the day. Significant shrinkage. #
Spent the day wandering around “Virginia city” Nevada. Yes, that Virginia city. #

Driving around south lake tahoe #
To look out over lake tahoe expecting endless ocean but see mountains in the smoky haze from california is amazing! “Mountains in the mist” #

If you pose with an old man playing music on the streets of chinatown, you should at last tip him. #
On a chinatown/sanfran-reno bus. Arlo guthrie on my ipod passing the foggy pacific shipyard. Great morning. #
Ipod w/ neil diamond’s “america” + me on a bus full of old chinese women + cali countryside = [...]

On Woensdag (Wednesday), we left Amsterdam for Reno. Well, we attempted to leave Amsterdam for Reno. The daily Usairways flight from AMS to PHL was full and rather than roll the dice on one flight we figured a safer bet would be to roll the dice on two relatively full flights out of Frankfurt. And [...]

Supposed to be in reno 2morrow… Takin a detour to sanfran for the day! Then a casino bus full of blue hairs to reno! #
Touchdown sfo. 6 hours ahead yesterday.. Now 3 behind. Hotel in chinatown. Gonna get some pasta #

Back in the us. First thing i see on tv is that clown jim cantori wearing goggles “braving” the storm on the weatherchannel #

only a few more days left in Amsterdam… but then off to RENO for a week #