Snow City

Last night, Lisa and I were playing a game of Australian Rails in the hotel room. Because of the layout of the room, my back was to the window and she was looking out it. Partway through the game, she pointed out that it was starting to snow. And snow it did. At one point, it started snowing so heavily that downtown Reno's major casinos, about a mile away from us, disappeared in the mist. This morning we awoke to see several inches of snow on the ground and snow still falling. According to the Nevada Road Conditions web site, chains or snow tires are required all the way from here to South Lake Tahoe. Lisa's plan is for us to get packed up and go to Carson City for breakfast, so I need to get shut down here and pack.

Picking Our Way to Tahoe

After checking out of the hotel today, our first setback was clearing the windows of the pickup truck. Lisa had bought a bottle of de-icing solution with built-in scraper -- which she left in Oregon. We improvised with windshield washer solution and the two plastic wheel chocks. Speaking of the windshield washer, the driver's side sprayer wouldn't spray. This is not good given how much muck and grime was being thrown up on the roads. So we had a couple of false starts after getting under way, stopping to try and fix the washer and clean the windows. Even when it started working, the wipers weren't clearing very well.

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Meetings tomorrow start at about 7:30 tomorrow morning (that's when continental breakfast is served), and I need to be there first thing because I have the data projector. So I'm in the mood for having dinner in the room and going to bed early.