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Trip to Tonopah
Mar. 29th, 2019 09:41 amLisa and I are at the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah through tonight, having driven down from Fernley. It took us about five hours to make the drive, but we did stop several times along the way.
( Mizpah Photos )
This morning, Lisa is out and about taking photos while I attempt to get work done. I'm sort of tied down until early afternoon, when we have an appointment to meet with the hotel and convention center to discuss some questions we have and to give them a better idea of what we're looking for and what we expect our members would like to have.
( Why We Call it 'A Bright Idea' )
I do not expect to have a lot to report this weekend. We're collecting large amounts of still photos and video (what you're seeing here is just my camera phone; Lisa is taking serious amounts of photos) that we'll need to review, index, edit, and comment on before we can say more about it. But I will say that so far this seems to be a nice older restored hotel, with friendly staff who have told Lisa that they deal with multi-hundred-person events a few times a year, so we can say with some certainty that this isn't just a pup tent in a parking lot the way some folks initially reacted to our announcement. In fact, I can say with certainty that there are more places to eat within relatively easy walking distance of the convention center, at a range of different types and prices, than there have been at a number of past Westercons I've attended.
( Mizpah Photos )
This morning, Lisa is out and about taking photos while I attempt to get work done. I'm sort of tied down until early afternoon, when we have an appointment to meet with the hotel and convention center to discuss some questions we have and to give them a better idea of what we're looking for and what we expect our members would like to have.
( Why We Call it 'A Bright Idea' )
I do not expect to have a lot to report this weekend. We're collecting large amounts of still photos and video (what you're seeing here is just my camera phone; Lisa is taking serious amounts of photos) that we'll need to review, index, edit, and comment on before we can say more about it. But I will say that so far this seems to be a nice older restored hotel, with friendly staff who have told Lisa that they deal with multi-hundred-person events a few times a year, so we can say with some certainty that this isn't just a pup tent in a parking lot the way some folks initially reacted to our announcement. In fact, I can say with certainty that there are more places to eat within relatively easy walking distance of the convention center, at a range of different types and prices, than there have been at a number of past Westercons I've attended.
