Reno Vet Conference

On October 14, we took a road trip to Reno. It was an easy seven hours, with our usual pit stop in Winnemucca for gas and some fried food.

Kelley was attending the Wild West Vet Conference at the Peppermill. It was a much smaller show than our last one in Orlando, but the facilities were really nice. Most days we had a small breakfast, then she was off to sessions.

I was working on a new IT project, so I spent my days on that, working from different places around the campus.

The Peppermill opened in 1971 as a simple coffee shop and lounge. They added gaming at the end of the decade and kept expanding from there, and today it’s a big Tuscan themed resort with well over a thousand rooms. The place is huge, and the casino crowd was pretty sad. To us, it looked like a lot of older folks in poor health gambling away their Social Security checks.

We had a bit of drama our first night. A guy, possibly drunk, got into an argument with the staff at the restaurant where we were eating over his player card PIN. A group of local ladies in the place sided with the staff member and came down hard on him, yelling and telling him to get out. It was entertaining.

A couple of nights we met up with Coleen, her (our) friend from Alaska, for dinner. She’s always fun to hang out with.

When the conference ended, we drove down to Lake Tahoe to spend the night and squeezed in some hiking and electric biking.

We stayed in Heavenly Village and enjoyed the autumn sun for patio dining.

Our night in Tahoe, we visited a place right on the lake for drinks and apps called The Idle Hour. It gets mixed reviews, but we LOVE IT. Can't wait to go back.