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The Trip to Reno, Part I
The privileged crew of GamblingResort.com has spent a lot of time on the road recently to see Indian casinos in the Central Valley of California and in the Gold Country.
Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino in Coarsegold, California, some 35 miles northeast of Fresno, as been the highlight of the trip so far.
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Many days have been spent driving north through the Gold Country of California. But the time had come to turn the car around and head back home.
It also became time to face the reality that one was returning to a life in the asphalt jungle of Los Angeles and away from the towering pines and fresh air of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
The saloons, gambling halls and old haunts in the gold mining towns nestled in these hills once drew hopeful treasure seekers from around the world. Would be nice to spend more time here and learn more about the history of these places.
Yet the time had come to pull out the map to find the road that would get the GamblingResort.com crew back home in the quickest way possible.
Highway 49 is the main road that connects one Gold Rush town to another. It winds its way through narrow valleys and undulating hills of unparalleled beauty. Highway 49 ultimately leads to other California highways that will take one anywhere else.
As the car headed north to Highway 50, so as to make the connection west to Sacramento and Interstate 5, the members of this expedition were no longer in the best of moods.
Even though these travelers experienced some of the deprivations of roadside living for a spell, they did not like the idea of returning, so soon, to a life of Starbucks and flat screen TVs, nice as these things are.
The passengers were all looking for a way out of this polyurethane pillbox that was now pushing them headlong into Interstate 5.
I-5 is that highway through the Central Valley that truckers take when they need to get some place in a hurry. No consideration is given here to the geological stimulation that a slower road would provide.
Everybody in the car was looking at everybody else in the car wondering if what the others were thinking mirrored what he was thinking. Was mutiny on their minds?
"Let's go to Reno," someone finally blurts out. "Turn this damn car around. Let's see what's going on in Reno."
Reno seemed so far away at this hour of the night. Reno is even located in another state, after all. But the idea of going there seemed too compelling to ignore. Reno, Nevada, is, by all accounts, "The Biggest Little City in the World."
No modern soul could ever hope to know the feeling a 49'er felt, after months of travel, across plain and prairie, over mountain trail and narrow mountain pass, or by ship upon a turbulent sea, when he first saw the faint glow of lights of the town of his final destination.
When the crew of GamblingResort.com finally reached the summit of Donner Pass over Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the mood inside the car reached new heights as well.
Reno was only minutes away now and everybody knew it. The close confines of the car would soon give way to the camaraderie and good cheer that only the casinos in a town like Reno could deliver.
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