Hijinks in Winnemucca, NV
Ever heard of Winnemucca, Nevada? No? I had not either until yesterday. Sounds like it would be a town of 100 people set out in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but surprisingly, I found out that was not true!
It was actually quite a large town with a many casinos bringing in the tourists. It was sprawling and seemed quite busy as we rolled in at 7:30pm. We stayed on the edge of town in a nice little RV park with nice, friendly owners. We left them some Jelly Bellys for being so nice and letting us arrive late. Turns out our drive from San Francisco with the Jelly Belly stop got us in right after they were to close for the night.
We had done a little research on the restaurants around Winnemucca and came across what is called a “Basque dinner house”. There were several of these in Winnemucca as well as around greater Nevada. This intrigued me to the point I had to look up the meaning:Basque Dinner explantion
It was pretty cool. After John’s recommendation of Ormachea’s Basque dinner house in town, we headed off. It was fun to try it and experience the local fare. We got the “sample” menu and dined on soup, salad, baked Chicken, meatballs, pork loin, spanish rice, beans (similar to baked but not so sweet) and french fries. I thought the fries were a weird addition but they were good so…whatever, I ate them.
It was a good meal. I have to say it wasn’t the best food I ever had but the restaurant was cozy and everyone was quite nice. Micah and I listened to a table next to us discuss God and creationism and how the Arc (as in Noah) was quite possibly the first ship ever built.
What?! Oh well…we had a good chuckle and ate some more!
Nevada is beautiful with the wide open spaces and mountains. It is weird being in all this expanse yet still be on Broadband speeds!
This morning I toasted us some bagels in our little oven broiler. I lit the flame and put them in no problem. I smelled something funny but didn’t know what it was and just opened the vent. We ate our bagels and planned our route. So about a 1/2 hour later, I suddenly realize what that stink was. That would be the teapot that I keep in the oven for traveling melting all the plastic into the oven. NICE! Micah helped me scrape off the plastic we could. It could still use a good cleaning but I will deal with that in Salt Lake city…..I plan to bake some cookies tonight and I don’t want them to taste plasticy!
Ebby is still scratching like mad. We have bathed her in medicated shampoo and given her benedryl but nothing seems to help. Poor dear. I keep finding hairballs all around the trailer.
We finally got rid of the lovely centerpieces from the wedding. They hung in there as long as they could! They were so lovely and such a nice memory, I didn’t want them to leave! And the last piece of wedding cake finally got tossed too. I had been snacking on it for days and finally decided 6 days was too long! It sure was good cake though! I now have fudge and jelly beans to work on!
