Reno At The Atlantis Casino

Tuesday: (05/04)We arrived at the Atlantis Casino about 7:30pm and called it a day.

Wednesday: (05/05) Cereal and bananas for breakfast. We were up early and started our day with a visit to the early morning almost empty casino. We stopped by the market on the way home for a couple of things. We also checked the library hours which were now quite limited. It didn't open until 11am. We returned to the RV and Lou prepared her thrift store route map. We then walked over to one that is nearby. While Lou was examining the thrift store, I examined the Harbor Freight Tool store next door and the Sportsman's store. We returned to the RV for ham and cucumber sandwiches for lunch then Lou took off with her map in the car to discover what treasures were at the rest of the area's thrift stores.

I found a WiFi connection in the casino and updated the blog and checked email. Our Motosat dish is still non-operational and will be until after I return home. there is either a bad cable of bad control board in the dish on the roof, neither do I want to try to fix right now.

I dropped by the local Best Buy store and looked around. I found a nice cheap digital photo frame for the RV that Lou has been asking for. Now we can enjoy some of the pictures I've taken here in the RV.

We had leftover macaroni and cheese with salsa, chicken, and fresh pineapple for dinner.

Thursday: (05/06) Lou started the cold morning (22 degrees) by baking some brownies for a snack later. We've been having nice days, in the mid to high 60's, but the evenings do get down to almost cold. Yesterday, the winds picked up in the afternoon and much of Northern and Eastern Reno got hazy due to blowing white dust. Fortunately we're in the Southwest here at the Atlantis.

We went to the Black Bear restaurant for breakfast. We shared a chicken fried steak breakfast. Even though we split it it was too much. We went downtown after breakfast to look around. It's really changed. Nevada is hurting, too many Indian casinos hasn't helped. At noon it was 48 degrees.

We went our shopping here and there. It did warm up some later in the afternoon. Lou left me to my blog and went out to look at a few remaining unvisited thrift stores.

Lou fixed BBQ baby back ribs with baked potatoes and artichokes for dinner.

Friday: (05/07) Breakfast was strawberry pancakes. I worked at the computer a while and Lou  shopped. For lunch we had ham and cheese sandwiches. We went downtown to visit the Reno River Festival and watched the kayaks play in the rapids. Our evening entertainment began with doing our laundry. We enjoyed spaghetti and Parmesan cheese toast for dinner. The evening was topped off with a visit to the casino.

Saturday: (05/08) More strawberry pancakes with garlic sausage for breakfast. We did some final shopping to restock before we left at Walmarts, Raley's and Grocery outlets. Lou knew just where to go for the sales. Grocery outlet had strawberries for $.75 a pound, Raley's had tri-tip roasts and Walmart had everthing else. Lou started the tri-tip roast in the crockpot with some dry zesty Italian dressing mix with a little vinigar and water. The roast was browned then sliced and placed in the crockpot. We started it and then the clouds came out so we had a little drain on our batteries much of the time. We should always check the weather report before using the crockpot.

Our next stop was the Cabella's store in Verdi to use their dump and look around. An interesting store. We arrived to find the dump locked up. Since there were signs leading us in that surprised us. Lou went in to complain and see if there was a key. Of course there was, just like the sign we didn't read said. The dump worked well but they didn't have potable water so we were only half done. Lou found a nice 12volt electric blanket there she couldn't resist as well. Since Cabella's is right next door to the Boomtown Casino, we had to stop in. Lou bet her dollar and came away with $25. We'd have had lunch there as well but their buffet is only open Friday through Sunday and their cafe is now a Denny's so we fixed our own lunch in the RV and ate on the road. Lunch was ham and cheese sandwiches with chips and quacamole dip.

We headed up highway 395 and turned onto highway 36 in to Susanville. We stopped at the Walmart in Susanville, asked if we could stay and they said OK, so here we are. We tried to find water on the way here but didn't, we checked at a park here and a reststop just before here and both were dry, no water available. So, we stopped at a Chevron gas station and asked if we could fill up there. They had a convienient faucet. They said OK so we gassed up and filled the water. We had to pay for the gas but got the water for a tour of the RV.

Even with the partly cloudy day we still recharged most of our battery use from last night (75ah) and cooked dinner. Dinner was the tri-tip roast with baked potatoes, and steamed
broccoli and carrots. By the time we had baked potatoes and steamed the vegetables we were 30ah down after dinner so the clouds didn't cause much problem.

Note: I may not get a chance to post often so this is a preliminary post. We're headed North on highway 395, 36 and 44 toward MacArthur Burney Falls SP with unknown stops along the way.