Summer 2006 - Tahoe/Reno and Telluride

"The assortment of people that currently run our lives allotted us three days to spend somewhere else recently and our requirements sounded simple enough until we got to thinking about them. The place had to be new to us, feature reasonably cool weather, and there needed to be some water around. The proximity of golf, gambling, and girls would be a bonus of course but you can find some semblance of those three things just about anywhere these days. Let's see, it's hot anyplace below 6000 feet or that's not within a mile of the ocean. The west coast was out since we'd been everywhere along it numerous times. The Great Salt Lake? No. Been all over Colorado. The east, sweltering in a humid miserable cloistering mosquito fog. Wait a minute what about Reno/Tahoe?"

A couple staffers needed a weekend getaway recently and decided to head up to the Reno/Tahoe area to check it out since it was one of the few areas in this great land of ours that neither of them had ever explored before. What follows are their words and pictures.

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"Another thing Plaza does a great job of is rotating stock for the changing seasons. Especially around the holidays, we always start watching the sign out front for some form of the inevitable "Holiday Ales have arrived" message and there's nothing better than yanking your ride into the parking lot, mixing and matching a case or two of that year's seasonals, and driving off with a trunk full of Xmas brews to sample from around the country and world. Plaza dabbles in seasonal wines as well and the staff offers helpful, hand written descriptions of any vintners and labels that they've tried and enjoyed."

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