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Tonopah Field Trip
Apr. 28th, 2022 09:32 pmAs I've mentioned, the Tonopah Westercon 74 committee is holding an in-person meeting in Tonopah this weekend. Lisa and I got away from Fernley about Noon today, and arrived in Tonopah about 4:30, with four stops (gas, food, restroom) along the way. We're staying in the Belvada Hotel, which is the closest of Tonopah's hotels to the Convention Center, and is where we plan to stay while we are at Westercon 74.
( Belvada Lobby )
After a short wait to clean up a confusion with our hotel reservation (we accidentally ended up with two reservations), we checked in and started moving luggage. As those of you who read about our road trips know, we travel heavy, and it took a while to move in to our room, which is one of the four queen kitchenettes in the Belvada Hotel.
( Queen Kitchenette with an Oven )
After moving in to the hotel, we took a short walk to scout out something we hope to do at Westercon 74.
( Outdoor Dining Area? )
After a walk around the convention center area, we walked over to the Jim Butler Inn & Suites. They wrote to us via our Facebook page to ask for a poster for their window. We don't have large posters, but we do have small flyers, and I delivered three of them for them as they want to promote our convention. While talking to the woman at the front desk, I learned that she had worked at the Atlantis Hotel in Reno during Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon, so she sort of knows the kind of event to expect, albeit much smaller.
Having delivered the posters, it was time to go buy some groceries. We'll be here three nights, and not all of them will be spent eating in restaurants. Also, anything we get that we don't use we can probably take home with us, as we have the electric ice chest in the minivan.
( Considering Grocery Shopping for Westercon )
As we pulled out of Raley's, we spotted a bus from Salt Lake Express, the company that runs a once-a-day trip each way between Las Vegas and Reno via Tonopah. As we had been unable to find an answer to some practical questions we've had, we decided to follow the bus to its stop.
( To the Bus Stop )
With a very productive day behind us, we returned to the hotel, where Lisa cooked us a nice dinner and we relaxed for a while watching YouTube history videos over the hotel's decent wi-fi connection. I need to get some sleep now, though, because part of the deal with my management to make this trip with only one day off is that I owe them a couple of hours of work very early tomorrow morning.
Incidentally, while hardly anyone around here is wearing a face covering (one other customer at the grocery store was doing so), nobody has given us any static about us wearing masks, and we even spoke to people interested in attending Westercon (like the clerk at the grocery store) who didn't flinch at us warning them that vaccination and masks are required. They seemed to understand that with our members traveling from far and wide, we don't want to be a super-spreader event for us — and for the local residents of Tonopah!
( Belvada Lobby )
After a short wait to clean up a confusion with our hotel reservation (we accidentally ended up with two reservations), we checked in and started moving luggage. As those of you who read about our road trips know, we travel heavy, and it took a while to move in to our room, which is one of the four queen kitchenettes in the Belvada Hotel.
( Queen Kitchenette with an Oven )
After moving in to the hotel, we took a short walk to scout out something we hope to do at Westercon 74.
( Outdoor Dining Area? )
After a walk around the convention center area, we walked over to the Jim Butler Inn & Suites. They wrote to us via our Facebook page to ask for a poster for their window. We don't have large posters, but we do have small flyers, and I delivered three of them for them as they want to promote our convention. While talking to the woman at the front desk, I learned that she had worked at the Atlantis Hotel in Reno during Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon, so she sort of knows the kind of event to expect, albeit much smaller.
Having delivered the posters, it was time to go buy some groceries. We'll be here three nights, and not all of them will be spent eating in restaurants. Also, anything we get that we don't use we can probably take home with us, as we have the electric ice chest in the minivan.
( Considering Grocery Shopping for Westercon )
As we pulled out of Raley's, we spotted a bus from Salt Lake Express, the company that runs a once-a-day trip each way between Las Vegas and Reno via Tonopah. As we had been unable to find an answer to some practical questions we've had, we decided to follow the bus to its stop.
( To the Bus Stop )
With a very productive day behind us, we returned to the hotel, where Lisa cooked us a nice dinner and we relaxed for a while watching YouTube history videos over the hotel's decent wi-fi connection. I need to get some sleep now, though, because part of the deal with my management to make this trip with only one day off is that I owe them a couple of hours of work very early tomorrow morning.
Incidentally, while hardly anyone around here is wearing a face covering (one other customer at the grocery store was doing so), nobody has given us any static about us wearing masks, and we even spoke to people interested in attending Westercon (like the clerk at the grocery store) who didn't flinch at us warning them that vaccination and masks are required. They seemed to understand that with our members traveling from far and wide, we don't want to be a super-spreader event for us — and for the local residents of Tonopah!
