Today we drove to Yellowstone. Pretty uneventful drive except that Jeffrey has now tied me with his first speeding ticket of the trip. A whole whopping 10 over. I guess it is slightly cooler than my 5 over but oh well. When in state tags are blue, its pretty easy to spot the out of state white one. Cop walks up "you know I clocked you at 75 in a 65?" Jeffrey- "yup" Cop stands there for a second, apparently awaiting an apology that he never recieved, then asked for license. Obviously unimpressed by our lack of caring that he thinks 10 over is too fast.
Tomorrow we'll be in the park, if the internet speeds up we'll post some pictures, right now it would take all night.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Day 25
Today we went to the Olympic Park in Park City. Interesting being at a ski park with no snow. They had an interesting idea, install rides at the park to generate attendance by people other than professional snow skiers. They also have a training facility to train people to freestyle ski, jumps spins and flips, by landing in a pool.
The first ride we went on was called the Comet. Basically they take you down the olympic bobsled run in a bobsled on wheels. Professional driver of course. We hit speeds of over 60 mph and felt more than 4g's through the corners. It was a BLAST! I will say that it is a very violent ride, you are wearing a helmet but your head bangs into the sides and your body slams around as well. Deffinately a great experience and I reccomend it to anyone... that is anyone who doesn't have serious back problems. After that we rode a HUGE zipline from the top of the big ski jumps to the bottom, also a lot of fun but a little unnerving at first if you are afraid of heights like myself. Lastly we rode what is basically a luge down a metal run. Was fun but not as fast as I wanted to go, guess thats so idiots like me don't fly off and die.
Had dinner on main street again, this time is the No Name Saloon, which is really designated a bar but had good food. Because Utah is Mormon and has wierd laws, to be a "bar" it has to be a private club. To get around that they make you sign a visitors card to come in... another effective law. That law is only topped by the other stupid law... that being that the most liquor they can pour into a liquor drink is one oz. So to get by this law you order a $3 liquor drink and a $2 "sidecar" which is another 1oz shot served on the side in a shot glass that you pour into your drink yourself. Also effective. Man I miss my free pouring dive bars in the south!
Tomorrow we go to Yellowstone. We have some pics that we will post sometime.
The first ride we went on was called the Comet. Basically they take you down the olympic bobsled run in a bobsled on wheels. Professional driver of course. We hit speeds of over 60 mph and felt more than 4g's through the corners. It was a BLAST! I will say that it is a very violent ride, you are wearing a helmet but your head bangs into the sides and your body slams around as well. Deffinately a great experience and I reccomend it to anyone... that is anyone who doesn't have serious back problems. After that we rode a HUGE zipline from the top of the big ski jumps to the bottom, also a lot of fun but a little unnerving at first if you are afraid of heights like myself. Lastly we rode what is basically a luge down a metal run. Was fun but not as fast as I wanted to go, guess thats so idiots like me don't fly off and die.
Had dinner on main street again, this time is the No Name Saloon, which is really designated a bar but had good food. Because Utah is Mormon and has wierd laws, to be a "bar" it has to be a private club. To get around that they make you sign a visitors card to come in... another effective law. That law is only topped by the other stupid law... that being that the most liquor they can pour into a liquor drink is one oz. So to get by this law you order a $3 liquor drink and a $2 "sidecar" which is another 1oz shot served on the side in a shot glass that you pour into your drink yourself. Also effective. Man I miss my free pouring dive bars in the south!
Tomorrow we go to Yellowstone. We have some pics that we will post sometime.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Day 24
Ok well today we got up and left Reno for our long treck across Nevada and to Park City, Utah. It was a pretty boring ride through Nevada cause there's not really much to look at. We did have one new experience for the trip though.... We got pulled over. Joseph got a speeding ticket going 5 over in a work zone. So 1 ticket for 4600 miles not to bad. Especially since both our friends were creating pools on how many tickets we would get. Anyway after that we continued on and finally got to Park City. We are staying in a very nice place thats actually a bunch of little condos. This is really good for us cause we have a washer and dryer for laundry and we each get our own bedroom. Basically this means I'll sleep better cause I won't have to listen the freight train in the other bed. Well thats all for now except the pictures.
Day 23
The next day in Reno we woke up, got some lunch, and then went to an auto museum that we read about in the hotel brochures. We figured it would be a small museum with maybe 50 or so cars in it. We were very wrong. The museum was almost entirely donated by the founder of Harrah's casino. He donated a total of 175 cars and there were many more that were on loan from other private collectors. They had cars dating from 1896 all the way through 1994 hot rod. Once again no pictures because we figured we wouldn't be allowed to take any because every other car museum hadn't let us. Anyway a few of our favorite cars they had were a beautiful copper bodied Rolls Royce, a 1933 Cadillac 16, a Hemi Belvedere, a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado that belonged to Elvis, a 1953 Corvette that belonged to John Wayne (all original survivor), and a Don Garlits dragster. Needless to say it was a great museum. After that we went back to the hotel and played some more blackjack in the main casino this time. We both lost a little bit more money again then we went to dinner. After dinner we went back to the casino and started playing again. This time I played blackjack and Joseph played craps. We had a lot better luck this time and in the end I cashed out with $1000 and Joseph cashed out with a little over $1200 (see pictures). So once again the casino actually lost money to us. After that we called it a night and went to bed.
Day 22
Yeah we know we fell behind in posting but better late than never. Anyway we got up and left San Francisco and drove across the golden gate bridge to a little town on the bay on the other side called Sausilito. It was a very neat little town. We ate lunch there at a restaurant right on the water. Also saw a guy on the shore on the way back to the car that was stacking rocks. I know it doesn't sound like anything special but he was balancing some pretty good sized rocks on top of each other using only a few smaller stones to help hold em up (sorry left the camera in the car so no pictures of this).
After that we left Sausilito and drove to Napa. Joseph had called a friend of his and gotten some recommendations on a few different wineries we should go to. The first one was a few miles from the main road where all the other wineries are, but it was one we were told we shouldn't miss. It was called Darioush. They had a really cool building that looked very Mediterranean. It was a very nice place and we bought a couple bottles after we walked around inside and looked around (they had a few Barcelona chairs by the way). After that we went to another one that was recommended to us. This won was Peju. There we actually did a full tasting. We were only supposed to taste four wines but once the guy that was running our tasting group found out we were a couple brothers on a road trip he just kept on pouring. We ended up "tasting" about 10 different wines. All of them were very good so we got a few more bottles. Then we went to mom's favorite which is Cakebread. They were much lower key but still very nice. After that we drove on to Reno.
Once in Reno we checked into the hotel, got some dinner, and then hit the tables to see what we could do. We, however, didn't know we weren't in the main casino but actually in the area they call the "party room". It was just a little bit different because our dealers were wearing bikinis. Anyway me and Joseph both lost $100 then went to bed.
After that we left Sausilito and drove to Napa. Joseph had called a friend of his and gotten some recommendations on a few different wineries we should go to. The first one was a few miles from the main road where all the other wineries are, but it was one we were told we shouldn't miss. It was called Darioush. They had a really cool building that looked very Mediterranean. It was a very nice place and we bought a couple bottles after we walked around inside and looked around (they had a few Barcelona chairs by the way). After that we went to another one that was recommended to us. This won was Peju. There we actually did a full tasting. We were only supposed to taste four wines but once the guy that was running our tasting group found out we were a couple brothers on a road trip he just kept on pouring. We ended up "tasting" about 10 different wines. All of them were very good so we got a few more bottles. Then we went to mom's favorite which is Cakebread. They were much lower key but still very nice. After that we drove on to Reno.
Once in Reno we checked into the hotel, got some dinner, and then hit the tables to see what we could do. We, however, didn't know we weren't in the main casino but actually in the area they call the "party room". It was just a little bit different because our dealers were wearing bikinis. Anyway me and Joseph both lost $100 then went to bed.
Monday, June 11, 2007
News Flash...
The boys have in fact not fallen off the edge of the earth. They've just entered Utah according to a very reliable source.
There you have it. The boys went on a wine tasting... and then headed off to the land of the Great Salt Lake (with a quick pit stop in Reno of course).
The boys left San Fran on Sat, driving across the Golden Gate bridge and on to Napa....where they visited some wineries and did some tasting & buying.....they arrived in Reno late Sat. and spent Sunday there. They leave today for very long drive to Park City......and I don't think they have internet connection there.....so we may not see them blog for a while.
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