Hello Winnemucca !!!

Hey Bloggers !!!

Here we are in beautiful downtown Winnemucca Nevada. Our day started with a delightful lady at Avis Car Rental. Penny, if you are reading this, we really appreciated all your hints, suggestions and mostly your excitement for our trip. It was fun for us to meet you and you started our first day off just right! I plan to email Avis and tell them how nice you were to us. Note to Cameron: Our new friend Penny at Avis gave us an upgrade on our reservation and we are driving a beautiful new Mercury Grand Marquis, blue in color. How cool is that!

After getting our car we went back to the apartment and began loading the 257 bags and suitcases we had packed. Well, actually it wasn't that many, but seemed like it when we started trouping downstairs with all of it.

We got over to Jim and Gail's in Lincoln around 10:15 or so and got to see Gail's mother Pat too. Gail fixed us a nice lunch and we had a great start to our vacation. They all wished us well and we left a little past noon.

Then, hold on to your hats for those that know me, you won't believe what we did next. We drove to Reno, pulled off on Virginia St. as usual, drove to the first gas station we saw, got gas and some snacks for the road and DROVE RIGHT ON OUT OF TOWN. That's right, we drove right through without darkening the door of even one casino!!! Hard to believe, I know, but true.

We drove through endless desert and finally arrived at Winnemucca where we will stay tonight. We had a nice dinner and are back in our room and a bit pooped for our first day.

Wayne got the pictures I took today downloaded from the camera, now I'm going to see if I can upload them to this blog. It's a little different on this laptop than on my computer at home so here goes!

More tomorrow.........thanks for reading.