Day 22: Reno Nevada; $$$.........$

Hey Hey, here in Reno Nevada, such a pretty landscape here. This is what you call the "Old West"! there are those neat old wooden railway tracks through mountain tunnels, and wooden/iron water troughs for the river run off along the highway (reminds me of the mountain run at Canada's Wonderland in Toronto! with the old mining town. The weather cleared up as I came through the mountain pass yesterday - So cool, I climbed, climbed, climbed, up highway 80 East, and reached a whopping 6300ft above sea level.. high enough that I drove through  the cloud line, and had to pull over because it was like a dense fog/ Insane rainfall!

So I did the usual this morning and when I woke up and had breakfast - cleaned up my "Bed", got a tea at starbucks, checked my rad fluid, trans, and OIL.... I found that one of my sparkplug "tubes" had popped out about an inch and was misfiring/popping... so i popped it back in... and then it popped out again... so I pulled the whole tube out and there was about 1/4 L of oil in the shaft... so I took it to the big "Tires Plus" down the road and told me that it needs a new valve gasket, new wires, plugs, free fuel system clean, oil change, blah Blah Blah... $450 Blah Hlah... yay I love to spend moneys! so its actaully at the place right now getting fixed and i walked about 2 miles back to my accomodations (walmart) and am just hangin out. Im surprised though that it was that cheap with all the parts on the bill and the amount of labor, but its better than breaking down!

So today im probably not going to do too much just hang out here in the big box mall and visit some stores? I really want to head downtown and look at the river walk, and the downtown culture. I just found out theres a UFC 104 in L.A. on Sat. Oct. 24th - I think I might be around there at that time.... maybe I will hit up some UFC nosebleed seats for $64 lol that would be super exciting! I think im going to start hiking back up the highway to the garage, and see how the progress is coming along. I think I will stay in Reno tonight, then Carson City tomorrow! then camping in lake Tahoe for a night or two! in the mountains for the week is nice! then i will head back to the big Manteca ( its probably the most comfortable, easy going town ive been and its very central!)...then Fresno and south down the coast...

So I really want to head east through the south states and towards the East Coast by the end of November... Wanting to head back to Ontario too and Visit Pops for a while - maybe look into some schools?
Well will update in a couple days.

Adam