Yes, there are Costcos closer to us. Lodi and Elk Grove are just over a half hour away. Rancho Cordova and Folsom aren't far, either. But we can combine a run to Costco with a quick getaway from the stress of moving by spending the night near Carson City, Nevada, just on the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountains from us.
Sounds simple but this has been the never-ending winter here. Even though I've put off the trip until April, the weather is still calling for heavy snow over the Carson Pass. The day before doesn't look so bad, though, so I book another night in the motel and we leave a day early.
It's rainy, but we make over the nearly 9,000 foot tall summit of the pass before any flakes start to fall.
Passing through a couple of avalanche zones...complete with evidence of earlier slides...is a bit unnerving but we make it through with no mishaps and end up at the Historian Inn in Gardnerville, Nevada, in just over 2 hours from the former gold fields of Amador County, California.
The room is a basic, maybe slightly nicer than basic, motel room with two queen beds. We think these narrow mattresses are more like full size, but we'll go with the flow.
The bathroom is nice and roomy with a roll-in shower.
It's dinner time when we check in, so we head across the street to Sharkey's Casino for a bite in their coffee shop.
It is a very good and cheap prime rib dinner for me...
...pasta Portofino with some large shrimp for Letty...
...and sliders for Tim.
We waste a buck or two playing the penny slots here.
It's a nightcap at the Silver Dollar bar as Tim decides this would be a perfect place for a pub crawl.
He's not wrong. There's the bar we're sitting in now, the Overland Pub across the street, JT Basque, almost next door to this casino, and three more bars between here and the hotel.
We get a couple of shots as we make our way back, then we'll finish up tomorrow for the next, new Cocktail Hour that'll be coming your way.
In the meantime, we'll call it a night and do some sight seeing tomorrow while we're here.
Darryl Musick
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